Anthony is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IBM Middle East and Africa and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is responsible for leading IBM’s most complex technology and engineering projects across the region and helping clients to leverage emerging technologies, such as AI, quantum, and blockchain,to transform their organisations, ecosystems and industries. He was previously the CTO for IBM’s Software business in Middle East and Africa providing technical leadership across the entire software portfolio with specific focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud. Prior to that, he was technical leader charged with leading the establishment of IBM’s Cloud and AI businesses in the region. Anthony has held multiple global roles, including leading the global transformation of one of IBM’s largest natural resources sector clients, consulting to a global payments provider on new forms of digital payment, and developing a set of services offerings around digital currencies and crypto-assets. He is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology, founder and chairman of MEA’s patent development board, and was appointed by the IBM Chairman and CEO as a Distinguished Engineer in recognition of sustained technical leadership across the company and his contribution to advancing the body of knowledge in blockchain and cognitive technologies. He holds multiple patents in the fields of blockchain, mobile payments, artificial intelligence, and security; and holds a Masters of Engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a thesis in distributed systems.
