Biographies

Dr Ahmed Alsohaily is the Group Head of Technology at the Red Sea Global company. Prior to joining the Red Sea Global, Dr. Alsohaily was the Chief Technologist and Chief Advisor for the Governor of Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), where he led during his five-year tenure the development and launch of 5G services in the Kingdom that made Saudi’s 5G one of the fastest and highest performing networks globally. In addition, he also played a key role in the development of CITC’s ‘National Spectrum Strategy 2025’ to unlock the potential of radio spectrum in Saudi. As part this initiative, Dr. Ahmed also championed the ‘Spectrum Outlook for Commercial and Innovative Use 2021- 2023’, which led to the launch of WiFi 6E and made Saudi the country with the largest amount of license-exempt spectrum globally.

Prior to his role at CTIC, Dr. Ahmed was a senior member of the Technology Strategy team at TELUS Corporation, where he contributed to the development of end-to-end technology vision that made TELUS’s network the fastest in North America and the world. He also contributed to the development of 5G requirements and standards at the ITU, 3GPP, NGMN and ITU.

In conjunction with his role at TELUS, Dr. Ahmed served as an Adjunct Professor and the Assistant Director of the Wireless Lab at the University of Toronto, where led cutting edge technical research, obtained three patents related to communication technologies and published over twenty academic and industrial papers. Today, he continues to contribute to the research and innovation field as Adjunct Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Canada and is a senior member of the IEEE. ​

Dr. Ahmed obtained his Engineering undergraduate degree from King Saud University and both his Master of Engineering and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. Dr. Ahmed is a licensed Professional Engineer (PEng) in Ontario, Canada and also has extensive leadership credentials that include the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) from Harvard University, the Stanford LEAD Corporate Innovation Certificate and the Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).