Javed Abbasi
Director, IT & Operations
Gisba Group, KSA


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Javed Abbasi, MBA Bi-Major (MIS & Finance), CISSP, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CDCP, CDCS, MBCP, ITIL, CIPA, DIBI, IFQ & PMP is the Director IT and Operations at GISBA Group. Mr. Abbasi is a multitalented visionary person with amazingly extensive portfolio of skills and exhausting list of several big innovative projects under his belt. Cloud computing is his special area of focus. His successful leadership and project management skills has made one of the biggest organization of Saudi Arabia to become first in the region to achieve ISO 20000, BS7799 (ISO 27001), CMMI and ISO 9000 certifications.

He is pioneer in introducing several best practices in the region. He is expert in IT Strategy, Project Management, IT Governance and process improvement, and has successfully implemented ITIL V3, ISO27001, COBiT, BS25999, CMMi and ISO 9000 projects.

Abbasi is well known speaker for the last two decades in the region. He has ead more than 60 workshops and seminars so far. He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars in the UK, Switzerland, KSA, Dubai, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, Nigeria, South Africa, Malaysia and others.