Prior to joining VMware, Amr held multiple roles at companies including Microsoft, Apple, Citrix and Sun Microsystems. Amr has strong experience leading partner management, enterprise sales, commercial, and mid-market teams.

Companies tend to have traditional business continuity strategies and plans that focus on the continuity of the resources and processes but omit the business model,” said Daniel Sun, research vice president at Gartner.

Despite only a few GCC regional oil companies industrializing wide-scale investment in digital technology, 88% of GCC refiners surveyed acknowledge that non-investment poses risks such as a lack of ability to improve margins and lower competitive advantage.