Christelle Boutros Connan

Christelle Boutros Connan is an accomplished professional currently serving as the Country Manager for UAE & Gulf at Akinon since June 2024 and as the Chief Executive Officer at Zidyia, a learning technology company, since July 2023. Previous roles include Senior Solutions Executive for Business Applications & Power Platform at Microsoft from November 2021 to July 2023, and Territory Sales Manager for UAE at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from July 2019 to November 2021. Christelle also held the position of Executive Business Director for the Public Sector at Evoteq ME, where Evoteq was established as a leading digital transformation entity serving UAE government IT investments. Christelle holds a Diploma in Compliance and Financial Crime from Henley Business School and a Digital Currency certificate from the University of Nicosia.