KHAZNA - Key Persons


Fabio Cattaneo - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
With a career spanning over two decades, and serving 15 years at General Electric, I have gained experience in driving short-term, medium, and long-term organic and inorganic growth objectives, enhancing productivity, and delivering value creation for shareholders. Throughout my career I held leadership positions in various global organizations across different sectors, including FMCG, Financial Services, Transportation, Energy, Healthcare, and Private Equity.

Fatma Ashkanani

Job Titles:
  • Chief Corporate Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Hassan Alnaqbi - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Before joining Khazna in 2014 I was at du, helping to develop and drive business as Senior Director, Business Support across datamena and broadcast. As CEO of Khazna, I'm now focused on growing our business globally, whilst helping to position and promote the UAE as a new international ICT data hub. As society's dependence on data continues to grow, this vision will become increasingly important to help the region thrive on the global stage. Our expanding data center network will continue to work with businesses from around the world to help the UAE's future-facing, nation building ambitions become a reality.

Roula Khaled - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
I started my career as a private practice lawyer working in Paris, Lebanon and the UAE. I then moved in-house to take on roles including Regional Senior Legal Counsel at IBM Consulting in the UAE and KSA - and Regional Senior Counsel at Majid Al Futtaim Ventures handling all legal matters across UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Lebanon, and Egypt. Before that I spent six years as a Legal Counsel Mergers and Acquisitions at Etisalat working on a broad range of the biggest deals in the region including the acquisition of Maroc Telecom, the sale of Zantel and Canar and the merger of Etisalat Lanka with Hutch Lanka. I'm now looking forward to employing my 18 years' experience to help Khazna realize their ambitious expansion plans across the region, and beyond. My knowledge of cross border M&A, and experience of strategic transactions in several jurisdictions will help build Khazna's global offering and position the UAE as a leading ICT hub.

Ziad Samaha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • VP New Business
My career has been based in developing telecommunications, data centers and IT across the region. I was Sales Director at Global Cloud Xchange, overseeing key relationships with the majority of telecom operators in the Middle East as well as some multi-national organizations. I'm now bringing all that experience to my role at Khazna, helping our customers realize the opportunities better data hosting solutions can provide and helping position the UAE as a leading global ICT hub.