Aamir Khalid Pirzada

Chief Information Officer

Aamir Khalid Pirzada is Chief Information Officer at the National Metal Manufacturing and Casting Company, known as Maadaniyah, a listed Saudi company working in metal casting and the manufacture of industrial components for the oil and gas and construction sectors. His role in this class of company carries a double burden: mid-sized industrial firms typically do not maintain a cybersecurity team separate from IT, so the CIO must balance running administrative systems and protecting the plant environment from a single pool of resources. Casting furnaces and pouring lines are systems that cannot tolerate sudden stoppage for physical reasons, not merely digital ones.