Umer Fayyaz
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UMER
FAYYAZ

Emirates Group, Etihad, flydubai, Bank of Punjab. I won or ran all four, and they took Cinergie Digital from USD 5M to USD 25M a year.

Director – IT Business Solutions, Cinergie Digital · Co-Founder & Director, Zirora · Dubai

01 Now

Cinergie Digital

Director – IT Business Solutions since January 2026. The business side of the firm reports through me: HR strategy, finance, sales, IT delivery and client partnerships, with 50-plus people across IT and business. I still own the flydubai account end to end, from the resourcing pipeline into their IT PMO to the billing and PO cycle behind it.

cinergiedigital.com

Zirora

Co-Founder & Director since 2024. An enterprise AI delivery practice in Dubai, MCP-native, services not software. We build working agents for hotels, property firms and recruiters, with a partner who brings three decades of enterprise IT leadership.

zirora.com

Umer Fayyaz, standing in an empty room, black and white photograph
02 Facts
USD 5M to 25M

Cinergie Digital's annual revenue, 2022 to 2025, across the accounts I won, ran and owned.

50+

people across IT and business reporting through me

4

enterprise accounts: Emirates Group, Etihad Airways, flydubai, Bank of Punjab

03 Career
2014
Emirates NBD, Dubai · School placement

Two weeks inside a bank at sixteen, sitting in on client meetings. First look at how an enterprise actually runs.

2017
oladoc, Lahore · BI & Reporting intern

Built a live Power BI dashboard for call-centre health. First work done on my own rather than watched.

2018
Jaguar Land Rover, Coventry · BI Engineer, summer placement

One of 25 students JLR took on for the summer. Built TIBCO Spotfire dashboards for the Panasonic Jaguar Racing Formula E engineering team, after taking the requirements from the chief engineer myself.

2019 to 2020
oladoc, remote from London · Data Engineer, BI & Reporting

Hired while still at university. Ran the MySQL server as ETL developer. Built the finance revenue dashboard, and the one the CEO and CTO used to track bookings by area and hospital.

2020 to 2022
Cinergie Digital, Dubai · Account Manager

Ran the Emirates Group account, about USD 5M a year: the Microsoft enterprise ecosystem implementation, the developers on it and the resourcing team. Opened Etihad, ran their IT resourcing RFP end to end, and won it against Accenture and Tech Mahindra.

2022 to 2026
Cinergie Digital, Dubai · Manager – IT Business Solutions

Ran Emirates and Etihad. Brought in Bank of Punjab (TIBCO Jaspersoft implementation, then support partner) and, with the CEO, flydubai, winning their IT resourcing RFP. Four accounts. The firm went from USD 5M to USD 25M a year.

2024 onward
Zirora, Dubai · Co-Founder & Director

Started an enterprise AI delivery practice.

2026 onward
Cinergie Digital, Dubai · Director – IT Business Solutions

Promoted in January when the previous director left. 50-plus people, and the business functions that go with them.

Middlesex University · DipHE Information Technology · 2017 to 2020 · London, then Dubai.

04 Work

Named because the work was real.

Emirates Group
Microsoft enterprise ecosystem implementation; an account of about USD 5M a year
2020 to 2026
Etihad Airways
IT resourcing RFP won against Accenture and Tech Mahindra; account run since
2021 onward
Bank of Punjab
TIBCO Jaspersoft implementation, then ongoing support partner
year onward
flydubai
IT resourcing RFP won with the CEO; account owned end to end. PSS modernisation, revenue management and distribution transformation, Oracle EBS to Fusion Cloud
year onward
05 How I work

Commercial ownershipAccounts, RFPs, POs, billing cycles, rate negotiation, margin.

People and deliveryFifty-plus specialists sourced, onboarded and run inside regulated programs, and the PMO relationships in between.

Hands-onPython, MySQL, Power BI, Spotfire, Jaspersoft. MCP-native agent delivery at Zirora.

Business developmentFour accounts opened or grown; a services firm taken past its anchor sector.

06 Contact

Write to me.

Enterprise buyers, partners, and anyone with a serious question. Short messages get faster answers.

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