Leadership

Sami Issa

Executive Director, Technology Ecosystem

Sami Issa is the Executive Director leading the Technology Ecosystem unit of ATIC. In this role, Sami oversees the technology strategy, execution and key partnerships of ATIC’s portfolio assets. In addition, he is responsible for the vital and long-standing effort to create a technology ecosystem in Abu Dhabi in collaboration with local and global stakeholders.

Sami is a veteran of the semiconductor industry where he has held diverse leadership positions with industry leaders such as Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corporation and National Semiconductor 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.

As an entrepreneur, Sami founded a series of small businesses in the Middle East focused on consumer electronics devices and associated services.

Sami Issa holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering focused on semiconductor device physics from Arizona State University and holds more than 50 US patents. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, General Manager Program, and is co-founder and vice president of the Harvard Business School Club of the UAE.