Dulsco Group has appointed Abdelrahman Abdelaal as group chief information and technology officer, in an announcement datelined Dubai, United Arab Emirates and published on 13 August 2026. The role carries group level accountability for technology across the company's portfolio of businesses, and the announcement frames it around resilience and the responsible adoption of data and artificial intelligence rather than around a single systems programme. No start date was given and no predecessor was named.
In the role he will lead the group's technology strategy, operations and governance across its businesses, covering digital capabilities, cybersecurity and organisational resilience, the responsible adoption of data and artificial intelligence, and technology driven innovation. Commenting on his appointment, he said technology should be measured "not by the systems we deploy, but by the value resilience and opportunities it creates for our people, customers, and communities". He added that he looked forward to working with the board and the executive leadership team to build a modern, intelligent and secure digital enterprise.
He brings more than 30 years of technology and business leadership experience, including over 25 years in executive technology leadership roles. The announcement lists International Turnkey Systems, TAMWEEL, now part of the Dubai Islamic Bank Group, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company among the organisations where he has worked. His stated expertise spans technology strategy, digital and cloud transformation, enterprise architecture, business applications, data and artificial intelligence, IT service management and strategic portfolio management, across the technology, government, energy, banking, financial services, retail and diversified enterprise sectors in the Middle East.
Dulsco Group is based in Dubai and operates across a portfolio of businesses. The announcement does not break out the group's revenue or headcount, does not list the individual operating companies that fall within the new officer's remit, and does not identify an incumbent whom he succeeds. What it does set out is scope. The mandate runs from technology operations and service management through cybersecurity and resilience to data and artificial intelligence, and it applies across every business in the group rather than inside any one of them.
Combining the information and the technology titles in a single group role is a familiar structure among diversified operators in the Middle East that have grown by adding businesses and have accumulated duplicated systems and uneven security postures along the way. On the evidence of the announcement alone, the ordering of priorities appears to place consolidation, governance and resilience first, with data and artificial intelligence sequenced behind them, an inference drawn from the wording rather than a statement by the company. His declared background points in the same direction, weighted towards large regulated enterprises where continuity, controls and enterprise architecture typically matter more than experimentation. The absence of a named predecessor may indicate a newly created position, although the announcement does not say so.
