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Anthony Butler


Chief Technology Officer
IBM Blockchain Services



Anthony is the leader and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IBM’s blockchain practice in Middle East and Africa. He is responsible for leading engagements with clients across the region and helping them to leverage distributed ledger technologies to transform their organisations, ecosystems and industries.

 

He was previously the CTO for IBM Cloud in Middle East and Africa providing technical leadership across cloud, blockchain, and cognitive portfolios; and helping clients understand how emerging technologies can be used to unlock new forms of value. Prior to this, he held multiple global roles, including leading the global transformation of one of IBM’s largest natural resources sector clients, consulting to a global payments provider on new forms of digital payment, and developing a set of services offerings around mobile payments.

He is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology, chair of MEA’s patent development board, and was appointed as a Distinguished Engineer in recognition of sustained technical leadership across the IBM company and his contribution to blockchain and cloud technologies.

 

He holds multiple patents in the fields of blockchain, mobile payments, artificial intelligence, and security; and holds a Masters of Engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a thesis on the application of artificial intelligence to complex scheduling problems.

 

 

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  • Ahmad Abu Eideh

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  • Sanjay Malhotra

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  • Ramana Kumar

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  • Fahad Al Semari

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  • Christopher Kiew-Smith

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  • Emre Karter

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  • Yazeed Al-Khalifa

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  • Wai-Lum Kwok

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  • Stefan Kimmel

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  • Tristan Brandt

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  • Devid Jegerson

    Head of Customer Experience, National Bank of Fujairah

  • Mohamed Damak

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  • Marie-Line Ricard

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  • P Venkatesh

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  • Kelvin Tan

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  • Muraleedhar Pai

    Executive Director, Maveric Systems

  • Giselle Bou Ghanem

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  • Alaa AlRousan

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  • Bhavin Shah

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  • Mirna Sleiman

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  • Sonny Zulu

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  • Adrianus Schoorl

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  • Muhammad Babar

    Head of Digital Compliance, MoneyGram International

  • Ahmed Mostageer

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  • Irina Heaver

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  • Subramanian Krishnamurthy

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  • Mohamed Roushdy

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  • Samia Skalli

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  • Jagadeshwaran Kothandapani

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