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Who’s Who: Khaled bin Abdullah AlSaleh, managing director of Accenture Communications and Technology in the Middle East region.
Khaled AlSaleh is a Managing Director of Accenture Communications and Technology in the Middle East region since August 2019, and a board member of the Harvard Business School Club of the GCC since December 2020.
He is a driven executive with extensive business and profit and loss management expertise in the information and communications technology industry, with practical methods to managing and motivating multi-national teams, building digital transformation strategies and developing go-to-market business models for sustainable growth.
At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he worked as country manager for HP software between February 2013 and October 2014, and he was then promoted to be the regional director of the Middle East and Africa region from November 2014 to January 2018. After that, he worked at SAP as managing director of Saudi Arabia between January 2018 and June 2019.
At Oracle, he was a territory manager between January 2006 and October 2011 in telecoms, media and transport industry, and became the sales director in the key account business unit between June 2011 and February 2013. He worked as a pre-sales consultant at CA Technologies between January 2003 and December 2005. He worked as a lecturer in information technology and business at Alalamiah Technology Group between January 2001 and December 2002.
He is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School, and he has completed the Senior Executive Leader Program, Boston, in 2018. He has been a member of the UK Chartered Management Institute since 2008, and he received a fellowship in international business from the Institute of Sales Management, in London, in 2007. He completed his bachelor’s degree in information systems from King Saud University, Riyadh, in 2001.
AlSaleh, a father of two and believer in the knowledge-based economy, has contributed to the launch of one of the first local cloud data centers by a multinational company in Saudi Arabia.
He has been a judge at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Central and Eastern Europe since January of this year, a mentor at Project1932 since July 2020 and a mentor at the Saudi Digital Academy since June 2020. He was a mentor at the Qimam Fellowship Program from 2018 to 2020 and has been a member of the Saudi Cancer Society since January 2015.