Firras Sabbah
Partner | Transformation Expert
Erfahrungen
Partner | Transformation Expert
thoughthaus FZCO
Currently leading a large-scale digital transformation project for one of Saudi Arabia's largest shipping companies (PIF company).
Several large-scale digital transformation projects across financial services, logistics companies as well as other indutries.
Digital marketing set up including channel mix and online-to-offline approach as well as CX-related strategies.
Organizational transformation implementing an agile delivery culture as well as tribe-based product teams.
Product enhancement for online distribution channels covering various work streams, e.g. CX, pricing, underwriting, issuing etc.
Support across various RfP processes for tech stack replacement and potential migration strategies.
IT target architecture design in alignment with organizations' digital strategy and future distribution plans.
In-depth project management office activities across comprehensive digital transformation projects.
Founder
Go! Insurance
Go! Insurance had the target to become Thailand's and South-East-Asia's first fully digital health insurer.
Setting up a startup business with focus on simplification of insurance distribution and product offering.
Planning and execution of actions across all related business pillars (tech. development, legal, business development, HR etc.)
Raised 0.5 Mio $ pre-seed investment capital across instituional as well as private investors in Eruope and Asia.
Participation at the Insurtech Hub Accelerator Munich 05-07 / 2019; several business partnerships signed in Thailand.
Product presenation events: Digital Insurance Agenda Munich 11/2019, Insurtech Insights Hongkong 11/2019, Digital Insurance Agenda Hongkong 12/2019.
Chief Information Officer | Head of Digital Platforms
Allianz General Insurance Pcl Thailand
Establishing a digital ecosystem providing services and products across sales & service channels and support the business in finding new ways of collaborating with partners.
Initiated the development of a motor direct platform for 100 % online business generation (go-live Q2/2019).
Overall responsibility for Allianz Thailand's target architecture and IT delivery around ACS as APAC's core insurance system.
Financial responsibility of ~5 Mio EUR for all digital initiatives in terms of return-on-investment related to increase of lead generation, productivity or cost reduction.
Ensuring business-as-usual operations are stable and identify further optimization potential as well as end-to-end responsibility for all customer and 3rd party platforms.
Manage and supervise a team of 35 FTE's, such as architects, team leads, developers and IT BAs.
Establish an IT target architecture aligned with Allianz Group IT strategy and meeting market's current and future demands.
Leading innovative approaches and discussions with startups and digital companies in order to identify new business ideas in order to move further into online business.
Applying agile and experimental approaches as an organizational mindset (for digital activities) to gain early insights.
Digital Product Owner
Allianz Consulting Singapore
Analyzing and gathering requirements across life insurance agents from Allianz Ayudhya in order to establish a mobile sales application (Allianz Discover launched, 12/2017).
Use on-going understanding and awareness of relevant industry trends to setup functionalities within the applications such as a modern campaign, lead management and social event module.
Collaborate within a regional team of Product Owners and Business Analysts in order to identify best practices across the OEs and ways how to incorporate these into an application blueprint.
Provide business and customer context to delivery teams in order to optimize modules such as simplification of lead management and related follow up coordination.
Iterative product optimization via regular testing with customers and UX teams.
Ensure delivery against timelines, report progress to key stakeholders via pre-defined KPIs and escalate if required.
Co-Founder
Foodlr GmbH
Foodlr is a startup offering a mobile market platform for homemade food founded in Munich 2014.
Conceptualization of the idea and process overview within the mobile application.
Sourcing and staffing of developers, business analsyst, designers and support staff.
Successfully gained interests of private investors in order to finance the start of the development.
Successfully applied for national as well as European funding programs (securred funding of 10.000 EUR).
Joint sprint planning and reviews and planning of market release and successful go live of the Foodlr mobile application.
Project Management | Lead Analyst (Allianz Infrastructure Transformation - AIT)
Allianz Technology Munich & Allianz Technology Singapore
Analyzing APAC Allianz entities' requirements in terms of current technical, financial and operational environment.
Forecast APAC Allianz entities' expenses related to AIT and the respective operating model, conduct gap analysis and identify potential solutions to lower costs such as split of in-country and off-shore services.
Cross-country analysis in order to identify optimization potentials for APAC such as work-arounds for regulatory implications and find different approaches for pricing setup for APAC Allianz entities.
Setup a project delivery plan, regular tracking and monitoring of related milestones and regular communication of progress and risks to C-level.
Develop a project on boarding blueprint based on best practices and lessons learned from other regions.