Thamer AlOtaibi
Riyadh,KSA
Summary
With over 24 years of extensive professional experience in the Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Operations Technology (OT) domains, I have led successful business enablement across diverse industries to digitalize operations and foster innovation by implementing and maintaining state-of-the-art technologies. Presently, I am assuming the role of the Chief Delivery Officer for Cipher, one of the leading-market cybersecurity service providers. Prior to this, I held senior executive roles including: Group IT Director managing centralized IT services for the Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) group and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Nomac Gulf Operations and Maintenance Company; the largest subsidiary of ACWA Power.
Throughout my career, I have also assumed pivotal leadership roles in various national and international organizations across different industry sectors. These roles include: Head of IT at Arabian Drilling Company (ADC), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sadara Chemical Company, and the IT Department Director at the Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq). Furthermore, I have held technical and supervisory roles in the various fields of IT in other organizations.
A significant portion of my career has been dedicated to working with organizations in their startup phase or during major digital and business transformations. I have cultivated a wealth of professional expertise spanning IT, OT, and Cybersecurity.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
4006
4006
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Chief Delivery Officer
Cipher
05.2025 - 06.2025
- Establish delivery frameworks and align delivery models with client requirements and internal capabilities.
- Manage cross-functional coordination to ensure smooth onboarding, governance, and project tracking.
- Support pre-sales and client engagement teams with delivery insights and execution readiness.
- Define operational delivery roles, scopes, and escalation protocols to ensure accountability.
Group Director, Information Technology
Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI)
04.2021 - 05.2025
- Build enterprise-wide Digital Strategies for SAMI and its affiliates (JVs and Subsidiaries)
- Advise the company’s leadership regarding technology and innovation processes.
- Drive technology innovation throughout the enterprise.
- Providing organizational leadership on technology issues, management of the technology research and review function, ensuring the alignment of technology vision with SAMI’s business strategy.
- Translate the strategy into operational business plans for the short, medium, and long term and ensure that performance is monitored, reported, and delivered and necessary actions are taken to achieve the strategy objectives.
- Monitor the performance of the digital function and prepare periodic reports on it’s the overall performance, to ensure deviations from performance targets and KPI’s are identified and reported in a timely manner, and that actions are adjusted to achieve the set annual action plans.
Chief Information Officer
Nomac Gulf Operation and Maintenance
08.2019 - 04.2021
- Build Digital Strategy
- Lead IT support to Nomac and its plants around the world.
- Advise the company’s leadership regarding technology and innovation processes.
- Drive technology innovation throughout the enterprise.
- Providing organizational leadership on technology issues, management of the technology research and review function, ensuring the alignment of technology vision with Nomac’s business strategy.
- Translate the strategy into operational business plans for the short, medium, and long term and ensure that performance is monitored, reported, and delivered and necessary actions are taken to achieve the strategy objectives.
- Monitor the performance of the digital function and prepare periodic reports on it’s the overall performance, to ensure deviations from performance targets are identified and reported in a timely manner, and that actions are adjusted to achieve the set annual action plans.
Head, Information Technology
Arabian Drilling Company (ADC)
08.2017 - 08.2019
- Define and implement the IT strategies and align them with the overall strategic business objectives.
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain SAP systems and services in the organization to ensure effective and efficient delivery of business applications to support the achievement of the overall business strategic objectives.
- Provide IT infrastructure, IT/Communications solutions to support the challenging business needs.
Manager, Information Security
Sadara Chemical Company
01.2014 - 08.2017
- The development and implementation of the corporate Information Security Strategies, Governance, and Program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected using a risk-based approach in accordance with the corporate goals, risk appetite, regulations, and recognized international standards.
- The development of the corporate Info. Sec. Risk Management framework.
- Monitoring internal/external threats and leading Info. Sec. incidents.
- Ensuring compliance with the established policies, standards, processes, and guidelines.
- Facilitating internal/external Audit exercises.
- Overseeing the remediation of security gaps identified by the Risk Assessment and Audit exercises.
- Promoting corporate users’ security awareness.
Dept. Manager, Information Technology
Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ)
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Define and implement the IT strategies and align them with the overall strategic business objectives.
- Design, develop, implement, and maintain SAP systems and services in the organization to ensure effective and efficient delivery of business applications to support the achievement of the overall business strategic objectives.
- Provide IT infrastructure, IT/Communications solutions to support the challenging business needs.
Sr. Specialist, Information Security
Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ)
03.2005 - 01.2008
- Responsible for all information security aspects (planning, projects, operations, and monitoring) within Marafiq.
- I was responsible for establishing and maintaining the Information Security vision, strategies, and program relative to Security Governance, Network Security, Systems Security, and Applications Security (including SAP).
Network Security Engineer
CyberGuard Corp. USA
01.2004 - 03.2005
- Responsible for providing pre-sales activities and network security consulting services to CyberGuard clients in the Middle-East.
- Major customers I worked with included but were not limited to (STC, Samba Bank, Etisalat (Dubai), etc).
Information Security Supervisor
Saudi Telecom Company (STC)
09.2002 - 01.2004
- Security Operations Center (SOC) Supervisor.
- My main responsibility was to handle the monitoring of the STC network/applications and take the necessary actions during security incidents.
Systems Engineer
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Medical & Educational Telecommunications Program (MeduNet)
08.2000 - 09.2002
- Web development and Sun Solaris systems administration.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - computer science
King Saud University
Certified Board Director (Cert. Dir.) - undefined
GCC Board Director Institute and Financial Academy
Certified CME-1 - Capiral Market Examination- Category 1
Leadership Development Program - undefined
SAMI (IMPACT)
Leadership Program - undefined
Marafiq
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - undefined
Certified ITIL v3 foundation - undefined
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) -
Skills
- Executive Leadership & Cross-Functional Team Management
- Digital Transformation Strategy & Execution
- Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP and Oracle) Deployment and Operations
- Cybersecurity Governance & Risk Management
- IT Infrastructure, Cloud, and Operations Management
- Business-IT Alignment & Stakeholder Engagement
- Data-Driven Decision Making & Analytics Integration
- Vendor Management & Enterprise Architecture
- Financial Acumen & Tech Budget Oversight
Languages
Arabic
English
Personal Information
- Date of birth: 10/01/77
- Nationality: Saudi
- Marital status: Married
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Chief Delivery Officer
Cipher
05.2025 - 06.2025
Group Director, Information Technology
Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI)
04.2021 - 05.2025
Chief Information Officer
Nomac Gulf Operation and Maintenance
08.2019 - 04.2021
Head, Information Technology
Arabian Drilling Company (ADC)
08.2017 - 08.2019
Manager, Information Security
Sadara Chemical Company
01.2014 - 08.2017
Dept. Manager, Information Technology
Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ)
01.2008 - 01.2014
Sr. Specialist, Information Security
Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ)
03.2005 - 01.2008
Network Security Engineer
CyberGuard Corp. USA
01.2004 - 03.2005
Information Security Supervisor
Saudi Telecom Company (STC)
09.2002 - 01.2004
Systems Engineer
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Medical & Educational Telecommunications Program (MeduNet)
08.2000 - 09.2002
Certified Board Director (Cert. Dir.) - undefined
GCC Board Director Institute and Financial Academy
Certified CME-1 - Capiral Market Examination- Category 1
Leadership Development Program - undefined
SAMI (IMPACT)
Leadership Program - undefined
Marafiq
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - undefined
Certified ITIL v3 foundation - undefined
Bachelor’s Degree - computer science
King Saud University
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) -
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