Waseem Akram

Waseem Akram is the current Director of BI & Analytics at Kitopi. Prior to this, they served as the Head of Data for the company from February 2020 to February 2021. Before Kitopi, Waseem worked as a Manager for Business Intelligence & Analytics at Majid Al Futtaim from October 2014 to February 2020.

At Majid Al Futtaim, Waseem was responsible for managing teams to have regular interactions with business heads to gather business requirements, future prospects, and current challenges and translate those into either data requests to build BI dashboards or analytics solutions to perform data mining, Descriptive/Predictive/Prescriptive modelling with appropriate visualizations. Waseem was also a Techno-Functional expert with strong knowledge of the business and the complete technical stack, including SQL, Tableau, Python and SAS. During their time at Majid Al Futtaim, Waseem graduated from the Majid Al Futtaim Leadership Institute as an Emerging leader and was awarded as the top talent for the second consecutive year for possessing high potential while delivering high performance.

Some of Waseem’s notable achievements at Majid Al Futtaim include developing, implementing and maintaining advanced analytics models for credit card Risk, Fraud, IFRS9 provisioning, Customer segmentation, Portfolio interventions and financial forecasting; managing the implemented models by building the model performance scorecards and model validation dashboards; and managing the team of BI analysts to develop and maintain the BI implementations using Tableau and SQL. Waseem also regularly conducted analysis on various touchpoints of credit cards like credit, risk, portfolio, product, sales, finance and compliance to drive business recommendations from the meaningful insights derived from predictive model scores and descriptive analytics.

In their role as Director of BI & Analytics at Kitopi, Waseem is responsible for overseeing the company’s BI and analytics initiatives. Waseem leads a team of analysts to develop and maintain BI implementations using Tableau and SQL, and conducts regular analysis on various aspects of the business to derive insights that can drive effective decision-making.

Waseem Akram has a Master of Computer Applications from Osmania University in Mathematics and Computer Science. Waseem also has certification from Simplilearn in AWS Technical Essentials, IBM in Big Data For Data Engineering, University of California San Diego in Python for Data Science, SAS in Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner, and SAS in Development of Credit Scoring Applications Using SAS Enterprise Miner (14.2).

Waseem Akram reports to Bader Ataya, Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder. They are on a team with Hazem Taher - Director, Marketing, Sabine El Najjar - Managing Director, KSA. and Ibrahim Mohammed - Data Analyst reports to Waseem Akram.