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Day 2 Wednesday November 26, 2008 - 02:15 pm - 03:00 pm
IBRAHIM M. LARI (Chief Executive Officer) Ibrahim Lari is a UAE National, and holds a degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. Lari began his career as an automation engineer with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), the first government-owned company specializing in marketing and distribution of petroleum products in the United Arab Emirates, since its inception in 1973. After a successful career, Lari was promoted to the post of IT Vice President for petrochemical plants, in which capacity he worked with several ADNOC’s operating companies. In 2002, Lari took over as Vice President IT and Automation at Dolphin Energy—a joint venture company floated by Mubadala Development Company, the Abu Dhabi Government's investment vehicle; Total of France and USA’s Occidental Petroleum. At Dolphin Energy he was responsible for the IT and automation of the company’s Dolphin project, one of the largest multi-national gas production and transportation projects in the Gulf. In May 2005, Lari took over as CEO of Injazat Data Systems, the joint venture between Mubadala Development Company and the leading global outsourcing, Electronic Data Systems (EDS). With Lari, Injazat has emerged as a leading Information Technology Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing (ITO and BPO) company in the region. IT Outsourcing: A Business Enabler In most organisations IT is viewed as a strategic enabler and is no longer viewed as just a cost cutting or tactical solution. When organisations start to see IT as providing competitive advantage, outsourcing also should be viewed strategically. This presentation overviews how IT outsourcing provides value to organisations through closer IT/business alignment. |
 IBRAHIM M. LARI  |