Yousif AsfourDr. Yousif Asfour is an experienced technology executive with more than 30 years' experience, with more than 20 years as CIO and CTO in the USA and Middle East. He is an experienced and dynamic leader who has successfully built high performing technoogy teams that lead the transformation of several organizations in various industries including technology, government, and higher education. Yousif currently sits on the boards of several start ups and serves as Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer at the American University of Beirut leading the Office of Information Technology, the Talal and Madiha Zein AUB Innovation Park and AUB Online. Most recently, Yousif was the President of the CIO Lebanon Association, the founding CIO at NYU Abu Dhabi, and played a key leadership role in establishing TechCARE, the Lebanese National Research and Education Network (NREN). Yousif received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University. In addition to several publications in professional journals, Dr. Asfour also holds a patent related to fast data transfer for multi-processor systems. Read More Read Less