Mir Abul Ula Ali Khan

Mir Abul Ula Ali Khan is a fintech technology leader with nearly two decades of experience driving large-scale digital transformation across aviation, banking, and payments. He is Vice President and Head of Engineering – Acquiring at Network International, where he leads the engineering strategy for the NGenius payment platform enabling digital commerce for banks, fintechs, and merchants across the Middle East and Africa. Earlier at Emirates Airline, he played a key role in modernizing enterprise platforms through API-led architectures, significantly increasing the adoption of the loyalty ecosystem. At Emirates NBD, he led critical middleware integrations supporting the successful (merger) technology integration of two major banks. Mir is passionate about building scalable cloud-native platforms, API ecosystems, and data-driven innovations that accelerate the region’s digital economy.

Mir has driven large-scale digital transformation across aviation, banking, and fintech. At Network International, he leads the NGenius payment platform powering digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa. At Emirates Airline, he implemented API-led architectures that accelerated adoption of the loyalty ecosystem, and at Emirates NBD, he led middleware integrations enabling the successful technology integration of two major banks.

Mir’s core competencies include fintech platform engineering, digital payments, API-led architectures, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale system integration. He specializes in building scalable and resilient payment ecosystems, building & leading high-performing engineering teams, and driving digital transformation through AI-driven insights, data platforms, automation, and modern DevOps practices.