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Mr. Sami Issa

Executive Director - Abu Dhabi Ecosystem Development unit of ATIC

Mr. Sami Issa is the Executive Director leading the Abu Dhabi Ecosystem Development unit of ATIC. Sami is a veteran of the semiconductor industry where he has held diverse leadership positions with industry leaders such as Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Broadcom Corporation.

Prior to joining ATIC, he was a director at Intel Corporation and elected top 1% of Intel's technical community, where he played an instrumental role in the vision, strategy and development of Intel's x86 based ultra mobile product line and Intel's ARM based Xscale product line. Whilst at Intel, he co-founded Intel's power management business unit and worked closely with Intel capital on multitude of investments focused on power management. As an entrepreneur, Sami founded a series of small businesses in the Middle East focused on consumer electronics devices and associated services. Sami holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and has over 50 US patents. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, General Manager Program, and is co-founder and vice president of the Harvard Business School Club of the UAE.