Curriculum vitae

Amad Malik

AI Strategy & Transformation Advisor · Fractional CTO & Chief AI Officer

Technology executive with over 20 years turning technology potential into decisions leadership teams can act on. Working with AI since 2000, creator of AI and Cloud Centres of Excellence, and a practitioner who still builds AI systems himself.

Barcelona Mayfair, London DIFC, Dubai San Pedro, Belize Happy to travel to customer locations [email protected]

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2000

working with AI since studying neural networks in my MSc

£21m

client payments enabled at IAG

£900k

first-year turnover, AMPS Global

AI + Cloud

Centres of Excellence created

Experience

Career

Founder and Consulting CTO
2022 to present

Adaptech AI Ltd · Owner of Kaidera and ASW Connect
- Built Kaidera to coordinate specialist AI workers, project knowledge and human review; architecture, delivery and roadmap owned end to end.
- Delivered the ATOS consulting contract below through the company.
Global CTO, Aerospace and Aviation
2022 to 2026

ATOS · Consulting contract via Adaptech AI Ltd

Joined ATOS in 2022 as CTO for the EUROCONTROL account and was promoted to Global CTO, Aerospace and Aviation in 2025.
Global CTO, Aerospace and Aviation
2025 to 2026
- Led aerospace and aviation technology strategy across AI, cloud and cybersecurity, turning operational challenges into industry propositions and customer transformation options.
- Led the ATOS team working on AI-based incident management, tracking and recording for EUROCONTROL through eTOKAI, including an agentic AI proof of concept.
- Worked with commercial and solution teams on advisory and presales engagements with airports and aviation organisations, and closely with regulators, suppliers, vendors, ANSPs and partner organisations across the industry.
CTO, EUROCONTROL account
2022 to 2025
- Responsible for EUROCONTROL's long-term IT strategy, including the move from an organisation running only in-house data centres to fully public cloud: the first regulated aviation organisation recognised as EU critical infrastructure to adopt public cloud.
- Created the Journey to Cloud (J2C) programme that delivered this strategy, and led establishment of EUROCONTROL's Cloud Centre of Excellence.
- Built the AI strategy that followed, setting EUROCONTROL on course to become an AI-first organisation. The major AI transformation now under way is based on that strategy.
(CTO) Global Lead of Transformation
2020 to 2022

Nestlé · Self-employed contract
- Led multinational technology and architecture teams on cloud transformation.
- Advised senior stakeholders and managed vendor and partner relationships on the transformation roadmap.
Chief Architect
2019 to 2020

ATOS Hybrid Cloud Transformation, IAG account · Self-employed contract
- Delivered hybrid-cloud transformation work that enabled £21m in client payments on a programme at risk of non-payment and potential penalties.
Earlier roles
2014 to 2019

Roche · HPE · BBC · AMPS Global
- Senior Enterprise Architect, Roche Diabetes Care: cloud architecture across Azure, Google Cloud and AWS.
- Senior Solution Architect, HPE Pointnext: enterprise cloud solutions for Bosch, Volkswagen, BMW and Vodafone.
- Head of Technology and Enterprise Architect, BBC (about a year).
- Co-founder, AMPS Global: built a cybersecurity and IT consultancy to £900k first-year turnover and to the point it was fundable, then gave up my shares. The company is now BlockApt.
Co-owner and Airport Manager
2010 to 2011

Sibson Airport · Career break from IT and AI
- Co-owned, with partners, a small airport near Peterborough, UK, including a flying school and a maintenance and engine-rebuild workshop for Lycoming aircraft engines.

Companies I have worked with

Expertise

What I bring

AI

AI strategy and roadmapsAI adoption and transformationAgentic AIAI governance and riskAI platform development

Leadership

Fractional CTO / CAIOStartup CEO advisoryLong term technology strategyBoard and stakeholder communicationTechnical team leadership

Technology

Cloud transformation (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)Enterprise architectureCybersecurity strategyOperating modelsSupplier management

Education

Education and executive development

MSc and BSc in Computer Science

Preston University · MSc 2000, where my AI work began with neural networks
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy

MIT Sloan Executive Education
High Impact Leadership

University of Cambridge