Dessa Bokides, CDI.D ACE Board Candidate Appointed to COO / CFO
Congratulations to Dessa Bokides for her appointment to Chief Operating and Financial Officer of NEOM Tech & Digital Company, Saudi Arabia. Dessa has strong leadership skills and experience and was sought out to be the COO of this prestigious project in the Middle East.
ACE LLC Announces the appointment of ACE Graduate, Dessa Bokides, CDI.D, to Chief Operating and Financial Office of NEOM Tech & Digital Co., Saudi Arabia.
For more than three decades Dessa Bokides has forged a formidable career with some of the most recognized organizations in the financial and technology sectors. As Chief Operating and Financial Officer at NEOM Tech & Digital Co., she is responsible for setting the strategic financial and operational direction of the company and ensuring that it has the people and technology in place to create lasting value. Created to power the world’s first cognitive ecosystem, NEOM Tech & Digital Company is developing and implementing the foundational infrastructure as well as a network of AI enabled technological solutions to seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds. NEOM, it’s parent, is a planned giga-project in Saudi Arabia incorporating cutting edge, sustainable and advanced technologies to re-imagine and create the city of the future.
Before joining NEOM Tech & Digital Co., Bokides served as the COO and CFO of Galvanize, a technology learning company. Her work lay the foundation for its sale to K-12, a public company, for $165 million. Throughout her career, Bokides has fulfilled several executive level financial and operational leadership roles for banking giants, including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. She has also been a C-suite executive for Fortune 500 companies, private equity-backed and startup firms. They include Global Corporate Treasurer for GMAC and Chairperson for GMAC Bank (now Ally Financial) during the financial crisis, CFO of the global logistics and real estate firm Prologis and Corporate Treasurer of the international e-commerce and business services company, Pitney Bowes.
Bokides received an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in Anthropology from Colorado College. She serves on the Board of PBS12 in Denver and is a founder of the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force, a coalition of companies committed to global talent innovation and issues affecting women and minorities.
About NEOM, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia:
NEOM is a planned mega-city in the Tabuk Province of Saudi Arabia. Our goal is to reimagine the way people live by creating a cognitive city that uses real-time intelligence to fundamentally change the way people interact and work. The city is being constructed with sustainability technologies at its core—a true City of the Future.
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Dessa Bokides holds a designation as a qualified board candidate CDI.D from Corporate Directors International LLC. and is a 2019 graduate of the ACE Board Certification Program (www.acellc.consulting).
Congratulations @NEOM for choosing Dessa Bokides as the COO/CFO for NEOM Technology & Digital Sector. We know she will bring value to the company.