Advisors

Prof. A. S. R. Murty.  PhD.

Mohammed Asfour.

Khalid Khan B.Sc (Hons), MBCS, CISSP




Advisor,
Prof. A. S. R. Murty.  PhD.

He has served at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur during 1964- 1999. Has also served the Mechanical Engineering Department as Professor and then served Reliability Engineering Centre and Industrial Engineering Department as Professor from 1984 to 1999.Undertook consultancy work from the organizations like Garden Reach Workshops, Hindustan Copper Limited, SriRam Bearings, Metal Box, Hindustan Shipping Yard, Bokaro Steel Plant, DoT Kharagpur, Pfeizer etc., and many more companies in the areas of machine condition monitoring, machinery vibrations and fault diagnosis, machine design etc.

He visited Germany (erstwhile West Germany) 1975-77 Post Doctoral Fellow at TU Braunschweig. Research area was Grinder Dynamics, Machine Tool Vibrations. Visited Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring countries where the visit includes several universities and research labs.

He visited U. S. A. in 1982. The visits include universities at Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech., MIT, Brooklyn, Stonybrook, Cleve Land Reserve etc., totalling more than 25 in number. Chaired at a session in the International Conference sponsored by ASME, IEEE on CAD and Robotics. Presented papers at various conferences in W. Germany and USA including the one held by US Navy.

Government of India (MHRD) gave a grant of nearly Rs. 4 Crores to start a Reliability Engineering Centre (REC) at IIT Kharagpur. An M. Tech programme and Doctoral programmes were started in the year 1984.

Operated as head of REC from 1988-1992, during the time 1984-99 consultancy projects and training programmes from various organizations like Telco, Tisco, Tata Bearings, Owens, Whirlpool, practically all steel plants of India, many mining industries, oil refineries etc., were undertaken. They were all completed successfully. REC being the first centre of its kind in the world received the Arch of Europe Award for excellence and quality at Madrid. REC also received similar award from IEEE. Guided more than 100 M. Tech theses and 16 PhD theses. Published more than 50 technical papers in the international journals which are all A level, Reviewed papers also for many journals and for many institutes including for MIT, USA.

Advisor,
Mohammed Asfour.

Born, brought up and educated in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. Mohammad Asfour is serving as an Advisor to the Board of Trustees at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) and the Project Manager for the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship.

Mohammad received his BA in Business from the University of Jordan. He then joined the family business and started an IT company. After which, he joined the Jordan Investment Board (Government) and was active in different fields. During this period He also worked as a consultant for the UNDP, UNIDO, and US AID- Amir Program.

His work took him to over 60 cities in about 25 countries from Taiwan to the US. He received training in the US and in Europe. His training covered different fields such as: investment promotion, ICT promotion, project appraisal, intellectual property, etc.

Mohammad's work in the government included several tasks such as:

Promoting Jordan’s ICT sector:

His Majesty King Abdullah had advised the creation of the REACH initiative which represented a strategic roadmap for developing the Jordanian ICT sector. His task included setting up a promotional strategy, assisting local and foreign ICT companies invest in Jordan, participation in international events, managing and participating in promotional missions all over the world, introducing ICT through education, etc.
As a result, and by the end of his term over 60 local and foreign companies had benefited from our exemptions. Jordan reached over US$100 million in ICT services exports.

Industrial development:

This was performed through “The backward linkages program”. The idea came from Ireland and the objective was to increase the added value of Jordanian products through creating linkages between existing companies. This would, eventually, increase the local content in the local industry to supplement and reduce imports. It would also give Jordan an edge when attempting to benefit from the US FTA agreement. It was during the forth Euro- Mediterranean conference for Ministers of Industry in Spain that he gave Jordan’s presentation as a success story.

Other activities:

Moh'd Asfour served as an active member in several high level committees such as:

• The Jordan-US FTA coordination committee which is a Jordanian US Public-Private committee. He chaired the trade and investment team that produced 6 actions plans to enhance trade and investment between Jordan and the US. Several plans have been implemented.
• The Jordan national branding committee that aimed at giving a positive and realistic image of Jordan locally and internationally.

In December 2002 Mohammad left the Jordan Investment Board to start a private technology incubator. He also mentored and launched several companies.

In 2004, he joint the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) where he is managing the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship that includes:
- Jordan Technology Commercialization Program
- Princess Sumaya National Entrepreneurship Competition
- Connect Jordan Program
- Business Incubation

Between 2004 and 2006, Mohammad, served as an advisor to the OECD’s MENA Investment Program. The program aimed at improving the investment climate in 17 MENA countries.

Asfour is also active several fields such as: protecting and studying nature and wildlife in Jordan, public policy advocacy for the cause of nature, intellectual property and entrepreneurship development. He co-founded a high level public policy advocacy committee that has been active in the protection of Jordan nature & wildlife.

Khalid Khan B.Sc (Hons), MBCS, CISSP

PROFILE
• Over 15 years of IS projects and 10 Years of IT Security experience.
• A professional Services European director of leading I&AM vendors have gained depth of knowledge and experience in large scale deployments of Identity management and Access Management, SSO technology based solutions.
• A European focused Identity Management professional with experience of eprovisioning,
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• Influenced Analysts (Meta, Gartner) through interviews and presentations.
• Influential member of EEMA for formulating RBAC standards prior to submission to NIST. Representing RSA Security.
• Worked closely with European teams , country managers and sales directors in writing winning bids & proposals, project plans and proposals for IAM.
• Architected, Managed and Delivered multi-million dollar security projects to agreed parameters of cost, time and quality.
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• Worked very closely with leading vendors across the industry including SAP, Oracle, BEA, IBM, Entrust, RSA Security, Netegrity, Thor, Waveset, Radiant Logic, Maxware, Sun, Microsoft, iPlanet, Siemmens and many more..