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Amjid Ali, AI & Digital Transformation Leader, Melbourne, Australia

About

CIO, AI speaker, corporate trainer, executive coach.

Award-winning Chief Information Officer driving enterprise innovation across construction, retail, services, and trading. Keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and executive coach on agentic AI, MCP, and the CIO agenda. Founder of SyncBricks Technologies, Melbourne. Three-time CIO 200 Global Champion.

Melbourne, Australia · Available for CTO, CIO, and fractional CAIO roles, plus keynote speaking, corporate training, and executive coaching.

Technology that actually adopts, because the business understands why.

Amjid Ali is a globally recognised Chief Information Officer, AI & digital transformation leader, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and executive coach with 25+ years of international experience driving enterprise-wide innovation across construction, retail, services, and trading sectors.

As a keynote speaker, Amjid has presented at industry events across MENA and APAC on agentic AI, AI Factory builds, MCP, the CIO agenda, and digital transformation. As a corporate trainer and executive coach, he runs hands-on workshops and 1:1 coaching for CTOs, CIOs, and senior leadership teams adopting AI at scale, with five published books and twelve online courses on his record.

As Group CIO at a diversified Oman conglomerate (2021–2025), Amjid founded the AI Factory, a pioneering centre of excellence that deployed 55+ autonomous AI agents across 10 business functions, delivered 300% ROI, and reduced operational costs by 35%. He mapped 250+ business processes, documented 165 SOPs, and built production RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration, and agentic workflows at enterprise scale.

Amjid is Founder & CEO of SyncBricks Technologies, an AI-first Managed Capability Centre based in Melbourne, Australia. SyncBricks offers 65+ standardised AI agents, end-to-end process automation, and digital transformation services, all running on Australian infrastructure.

He holds formal qualifications across AI, IT, Data Science, Business Transformation, Commerce, and Accounting & Finance, giving him a rare ability to bridge technology and business, understanding what organisations actually need before implementing solutions. This is why his ERP implementations have a 100% success and adoption rate.

25 years, measured in outcomes.

25+
Years of experience
4
Countries operated in
55+
AI agents deployed
65+
Standardised agents
250+
Processes mapped
300%
Transformation ROI
35%
Cost reduction
100%
ERP success rate
10k+ residences
Smart infrastructure
5
Published books
12
Online courses
100k+
Students impacted
A$5M+
Annual budgets managed

Globally recognised leadership.

  • CIO 200 Global Champion
    3 consecutive years · 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Global CIO Forum, Global Champion
    2024
  • World CIO 200 Legend
    3 consecutive years · 2023–2025
  • IT Excellence Award
    2023
  • Comex IT Excellence Award
    2017
  • Gold Medallist, MS-IT, SZABIST Dubai
    First position · GPA 3.84 (92%)
  • Country Ambassador, Oman
    Global CIO Forum · 2024–2025
  • n8n Ambassador
    2026

See full awards list

Technology acquired is not technology implemented.

Digital transformation is not about the technology, it is about the mindset. Technology acquired does not mean technology implemented. Real implementation only comes when people adopt it for positive business outcomes.

My approach goes beyond the traditional People–Process–Technology framework to also address culture, politics, behaviours, data, and automation. I drive change management alongside technology implementation, ensuring adoption, not just deployment.

My competitive advantage lies in combining deep technical expertise with formal accounting and finance education, I do not wait for business requirements but anticipate and generate them, because I understand business operations in depth.

Formal qualifications in both IT and business.

  • DBA (in progress)

    Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome

    Research: AI Models & Workflow Automation for Business Efficiency

  • MS-IT · Gold Medallist

    SZABIST (Dubai, UAE campus)

    GPA 3.84 (92%) · 1st position

  • Commerce · Accounting & Finance

    Pakistan

    Foundation for business–IT alignment

Industry-recognised credentials.

  • MIT Executive Program
  • PMP
  • COBIT 5
  • ITIL
  • ACS CP (Security)
  • CompTIA Security+
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • CDCP
  • MCSE
  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 9001
  • Certified in Design Thinking
  • Digital Transformation Professional

Where I show up.

  • Australian Computer Society (ACS) Certified Professional
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Member
  • Global CIO Forum Core Committee Member · Former Country Ambassador
  • Pro AI Global President, Australia
  • Toastmasters International Member
  • AITP Member

Let’s build what’s next.

Open to CTO, CIO, Head of IT, AI Director, and digital transformation lead roles across Melbourne and Australia. Also available for fractional, advisory, and delivery engagements via SyncBricks.