With 15 years in telecommunications and digital media, Abdalaziz leads digital channels at a telecom company in Saudi Arabia: digital platforms, customer engagement and data-driven initiatives. As AI reshaped his sector, he faced a question many senior digital leaders share: how do you build strategic leadership and real technical understanding at the same time?
Two programs, two perspectives
Instead of choosing one path, Abdalaziz enrolled in the MBA in Artificial Intelligence at Dominican University of California through AreteUp, alongside a separate technical AI degree. The MBA focuses on executive decision-making, AI strategy and business transformation.
What changed
- Translating AI concepts into business value and strategy
- Leading cross-functional teams with clearer alignment between technology and commercial goals
- Judging digital initiatives on governance, ethics and scalability
With AreteUp's support he studied without stepping back from his role, and an international cohort widened his view of how AI is changing industries across regions.
“AI leadership is not only about understanding strategy or technology alone. Through AreteUp, I was able to develop both: the mindset of an executive and the logic of a technologist.”
Abdalaziz S.
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