As the Chief Operations Officer of Zain KSA since March 2024, Eng. Abdulrahman Al-Mufadda leads the Company’s development teams and oversees technology and digital innovation development. Eng. Al-Mufadda has successfully led his team in implementing Zain KSA’s strategy in the deployment of the 5G network across the Kingdom, achieving the most significant local and regional accomplishment of its kind, which has yielded the expansion of the Company’s services, solutions, and innovations offered, such as Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies (AR & VR), Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and more.

Eng. Al-Mufadda further contributed to implementing Project Reload, one of the biggest projects in Zain KSA’s history, and the USF Broadband Project, both of which are part of the 2020 National Transformation Program.

Eng. Al-Mufadda initially joined Zain KSA as Planning Delivery Manager in 2013 before assuming several managerial roles leading up to his current position. Eng. Al-Muffada brings 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, where prior to joining Zain KSA, he held several senior technical positions, most notably, as R&D Engineer and as Project Manager within Ericsson Group.

Eng. Al-Mufadda is a certified Project Management Professional and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University, and a general management program certificate from Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires “INSEAD”