Majid AlNaqbi

Head of Data Centre Business, du

Majid AlNaqbi, joined du in 2006 and has 18+ years’ experience within du, where he has played an integral part in various roles he has been performing. He has a vast rich experience in multiple areas that include Technology, Commercial and Customer & Channels team. He has excelled in functions like Transport Network, Fixed Access Network, Network Infrastructure, Datamena & broadcast, managed services, technology operations and in his last role he was heading Customer Operations in the Customer & Channels team.

Currently, Majid is the Head of Data Centre Business at du in the ICT department under the new sub-brand du Tech. He has the commercial acumen and technology knowledge with a customer

experience mindset to drive the Data Centre Business for du Tech at such an exciting time where he in 2024 has been able to achieve major milestones and successfully explore new horizons to achieve the ambitions to grow the business by signing a one of its kind deal in partnership to launch the first NVIDIA supercluster in the GCC. The supercluster in Dubai will leverage cutting- edge liquid cooling technology to enhance AI processing efficiency, sustainability, and performance. The project marks a significant advancement in the Data Centre and AI technology landscape of the region.

Under his leadership, he has recently won an awards for the Data Centre Business in less than one year’s time for, “Innovation in cooling 2024” at Dubai Cloud & Data Centre Convention & Awards 2024 from W.Media. Presently in his role, he is heading multiple data centre locations that are mostly fully consumed taking the Data Centre Business to the next-level.

Majid has a Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering and Masters degree in Engineering systems management from American University of Sharjah.