Talha Asif

Director and Chief Business Development Officer, MENA

Talha Asif is director and chief business development officer for the Middle East and North Africa at Concept Dash, a Canadian civil engineering and design firm with a registered Saudi entity, and the founder of Task Force, an artificial intelligence construction management platform. He brings more than twenty years of infrastructure delivery across rail, highway, transit and municipal programmes, including senior roles on the Bowmanville train line extension at Metrolinx in Canada, a programme worth more than two billion dollars delivered under construction manager at risk and progressive public private partnership models. He holds a civil engineering degree from Lakehead University and a master of public administration from Ontario Tech University, has taught project delivery and contract management at Canadian colleges, and is based in Riyadh.