Essa Haider

Essa serves as Chief Technology Officer at Ooredoo Kuwait, where they lead strategic planning, development, and implementation of cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and enhance the company’s telecommunication’s infrastructure. With 19 years of experience in telecom industry, Essa has a proven record in managing large-scale network deployments, 5G rollouts, and the integration of next-generation technologies such as IoT and AI.

Previous to his role as CTO of Ooredoo Kuwait, Essa was Director of Radio Access and Network Planning where they have successfully launched 5G, 4G, 3G Networks, IP and Transmission works, including end-to-end management of Ooredoo Radio Network evolution, country wide. He also played a key role in the continued development and execution of strategic objectives driven by Ooredoo Group, with its recent strategic announcement of establishing the largest Tower Company in MENA region, which feed the demand for environment friendly solutions and sustainability. Moreover, Customer Experience was at the heart of his strategies deployed for Network Anomaly Detection using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for critical use cases, to deliver seamless performance on all applications levels.