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Sultan AlAmeri

Sultan AlAmeri

Abu Dhabi,UAE

Summary

With over twelve years of experience, I am a resilient and results-oriented professional specializing in Business Resilience, Business Continuity Management (BCM), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and Crisis Management.

I develop and lead strategic initiatives that strengthen organizational preparedness and ensure continuity of operations during disruptions. My expertise in ERM focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, aligning them with organizational objectives to enhance overall resilience.

As a Business Continuity Manager, I oversee the design, implementation, and testing of continuity and crisis management programs across the organization, ensuring all business units are capable of responding effectively to emergencies and recovering critical functions.

I hold globally recognized certifications in Business Resilience, supporting my ability to safeguard essential operations and drive sustainable organizational performance.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Continuity Manager

Executive Affairs Authority
Abu Dhabi
01.2020 - 04.2025

• Work with all Departments to develop, operate and maintain corporate wide BCM program that addresses incident response crises management and recovery of the time-critical processes.
• Design and outline goals, objectives and scope of the BCM program.
• Establish business Continuity management life cycle based on applicable standards.
• Lead Business Impact Analysis and risk reviews and assessment to understand the time-critical business operations and the risks that could lead to a disruption.
• Support the development and implementation of mitigation and recovery strategies, techniques and processes to prevent and address disruptive incidents.
• Facilitate the training and awareness campaigns to develop competences embed BCM in our organization Culture.
• Design and Implement tests and exercises of the BCM plans and incident response and management plans to review the effectives of the current responses and recovery plans.

Senior Analyst - Business Resilience

Department of Culture and Tourism
Abu Dhabi
01.2019 - 01.2020

To Supervise the implementation and day-to-day functions related to creating Business Continuity Plans and Procedures, while also supervising Crises and Disaster Recovery operations within the DCT:
• Provides key inputs into the company's enterprise risk or other committee that oversees the enterprise risk management process and ensures alignment with organizational objectives.
• Assume management responsibility for Business Continuity planning efforts with a major focus on assuring the adequacy of business unit Continuity plans for critical activities areas, functions and applications.
• To maintain continued operations, asset protection, and loss mitigation in the event of a disruption, coordinating activities of technology resources with the company’s business units and development groups, as required.
• Work with the management to enhance continuity plans, mitigating the effect of a technology system or application failure or problem.
• Assume leadership role in developing, coordinating, and maintaining comprehensive business continuity plans and validation methodology, to ensure the firm’s ability to recovery, in the event of an unforeseen disruption to facilities, technology systems, or applications.
• Develop and co-ordinate the production, maintenance and review of the portfolio of corporate business continuity plans.
• Participate in, and lead on where appropriate, business continuity projects and initiatives, presenting proposals and reports.

Business Continuity Lead

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company
Abu Dhabi
01.2013 - 01.2019
  • Responsible for developing, maintaining and testing the Group's Business Continuity programs. will support all activities necessary to enable the Organization to manage a crisis event as well as meet compliance requirements for BCP planning.

    Main goals will be to Identify, document and test business needs against the Company infrastructure and identify recovery strategies and gaps.

Education

Bachelor - Business Administration Management, Management & Public Admin

University of Sharjah
Sharjah
09.2008 - 01.2013

Skills

  • Operational resilience strategies
  • Emergency response procedure design
  • Business continuity plan development
  • ISO 22301 expertise
  • Business impact analysis
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Business continuity planning
  • Incident Management
  • Recovery planning
  • Resilience under pressure

Certification

  • Member of the Business Continuity Institute: MBCI
  • Certificate Of the Business Continuity Institute: CBCI
  • Oxford Leading Through Uncertainty and Disruption: Building Resilient Organisations Programme
  • MIT Professional Education: Advanced Business Resiliency
  • MIT Professional Education: Crisis Management & Business Resiliency
  • NCEMA: Recovery Planning
  • ISO 22301:2012 Lead Implementer BCMS
  • ISO 22301:2012 Lead Auditor BCMS
  • AE/NCEMA/7000 Business Impact Analysis
  • Strategic Business Continuity Management Course
  • AE/NCEMA/7000 BCM Implementation in entities
  • Certified Crisis Management Specialist
  • Crisis Management outbreak of COVID-19
  • NYU Abu Dhabi: Artificial Intelligence Program
  • Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy: Global Trends & Issues
  • IOSH: Managing Safely

Personal Information

  • Total Experience: Over ten years of experience in Business Resilience, specializing in developing strategies that strengthen organizational preparedness and ensure continuity in the face of potential disruptions.
  • Nationality: UAE National

Languages

English
Advanced
Arabic
Native

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Business Continuity Manager

Executive Affairs Authority
01.2020 - 04.2025

Senior Analyst - Business Resilience

Department of Culture and Tourism
01.2019 - 01.2020

Business Continuity Lead

Abu Dhabi National Energy Company
01.2013 - 01.2019

Bachelor - Business Administration Management, Management & Public Admin

University of Sharjah
09.2008 - 01.2013
Sultan AlAmeri