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Enterprise Perspective
Advice grounded in senior data and AI leadership across regulated, operationally complex sectors.
Founder-led Data, AI & Insights advisory
Clarity for your most consequential data and AI decisions.
Independent, executive-level advice for regulated and complex organisations — from enterprise strategy and governance to modern platforms, GenAI adoption and customer insight.
Your Data, Amplified.
Strategy · Governance · Execution
The Data Quark approach
Senior judgement, focused on decisions that matter.
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Strategy Connected to Delivery
Clear direction shaped by an understanding of architecture, platforms, governance and organisational realities.
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Independent Senior Attention
Direct access to the Managing Partner throughout a focused advisory or project engagement.
Fahad brings 22+ years leading data, analytics and AI functions inside large, regulated organisations across financial services, banking, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, oil & gas, and government.
His career includes senior data and AI leadership roles at organisations such as Bupa, Latitude Financial, NAB and AGL. That experience informs pragmatic advice at the intersection of executive ambition, governance, technology and delivery.
He holds an Executive MBA and has completed postgraduate study in Applied Agentic AI for Organisational Transformation through MIT Professional Education, combining enterprise leadership experience with current thinking in autonomous and generative AI systems.
Financial Services & BankingHealthcareEnergyTelecommunicationsOil & GasGovernment
Speaking & Thought Leadership
Ideas shaped in practice, shared with industry.
Fahad contributes to executive conversations on data platforms, customer experience and responsible enterprise AI adoption through conferences, panels and industry publications.
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Panelist, Clutch Events — AI Modernisation panel
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Fireside chat, Snowflake Data World Tour
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Speaker, Virtual MarTech Exchange Summit — two sessions
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Panelist, CIO panel
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Panelist, CDAO panel
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Speaker, Gold Coast Retail Summit — Personalisation
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Featured in CIO Advisor APAC magazine
Advisory & project offerings
Focused expertise for complex decisions.
Defined advisory and project engagements that give leaders clarity, a practical path forward and confidence in execution.
Enterprise data and AI strategy
Operating model and capability design
Investment roadmaps and prioritisation
Value cases and executive alignment
Governance operating models
Privacy and data risk advisory
Responsible AI principles and controls
Ownership, quality and policy frameworks
Databricks and Snowflake advisory
Azure and AWS architecture
Lakehouse and data product design
Platform evaluation and delivery roadmaps
Enterprise GenAI adoption strategy
Use-case discovery and prioritisation
LLM architecture and evaluation
Risk, guardrail and governance design
Single Customer View strategy
Master data management
Feature-store and activation patterns
Personalisation operating models
CRM strategy and platform assessment
Vendor evaluation and selection
Business and architecture alignment
Implementation roadmap and governance
Board and C-suite briefings
Strategy challenge and assurance
Executive decision forums
Program governance and advisory
Data Quark engagements
Client work delivered by Data Quark.
Selected advisory and project engagements delivered through Data Quark Pty Ltd.
AI Platform Governance & Production Enablement
Led design forums across cybersecurity, architecture and vendor teams to resolve cloud and serverless hosting, VPC placement and compliance concerns. Drove executive alignment and approvals to move AI initiatives from experimentation to production with guardrails.
Championing Databricks and feature-store adoption across distributed AI teams positioned the client to detect EV usage patterns through machine learning in support of its energy transition agenda.
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- AGL
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Delivery
- Engaged via NTT, the main contractor to AGL
DatabricksFeature StoresResponsible AICloud Architecture
CRM Assessment & IT Architecture Roadmap
Assessed three CRM platforms through market analysis, vendor meetings and product demonstrations, then provided a financial viability recommendation aligned to the client's operating needs.
Developed an IT architecture roadmap proposal connecting the client's systems with GenAI-enabled diagnostics, virtual care and telemedicine models, and modern core HIS platforms.
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MyClinic International Medical Company- Location
- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
CRM AssessmentVendor EvaluationGenAI DiagnosticsHIS & Virtual Care
Modern data platforms
Advice grounded in the enterprise stack.
Microsoft Azure
AWS
Databricks
Snowflake
Start a conversation
Bring clarity to the next decision.
Share the strategic question, delivery challenge or governance issue in front of you. Fahad will respond directly to explore whether Data Quark can help.
Senior attention from the first conversation.