VivoPower appoints former Microsoft AI leader to advisory council

VivoPower PLC (NASDAQ:VIVO, FRA:51J) announced it has appointed artificial quality strategist Khadija Mustafa to its advisory council, arsenic the institution looks to grow its planetary footprint successful AI-focused infrastructure.

Mustafa brings much than 2 decades of acquisition successful planetary exertion leadership, with expertise spanning artificial quality strategy, planetary partnerships and commercialization crossed markets including the US, the Middle East and Europe.

Mustafa is the laminitis and CEO of Beyyond.ai, a strategical advisory steadfast focused connected gathering AI ecosystems for governments, investors and companies.

Prior to founding Beyyond.ai, Mustafa held elder roles astatine Microsoft, wherever she led go-to-market strategy for AI and autonomous systems and oversaw large-scale commercialized operations. She besides led planetary partnerships for Core42, portion of G42.

“I’m pleased to beryllium joining VivoPower,” Mustafa said. “Sovereign AI is becoming the operating strategy of nations, shaping however they compete, unafraid their interests, and govern successful an progressively analyzable geopolitical landscape… VivoPower is gathering astatine this captious convergence of energy, land, and compute with clarity and focus, and is uniquely positioned to signifier however sovereign AI infrastructure is developed and accessed successful the years ahead, an emerging precedence for galore nations.”

VivoPower CEO Kevin Chin said Mustafa’s acquisition scaling AI businesses crossed aggregate regions would enactment the company’s enlargement strategy.

“She understands however infrastructure, superior and argumentation intersect successful the AI epoch crossed aggregate sovereign jurisdictions globally,” Chin said successful a statement.

VivoPower said Mustafa’s web crossed hyperscalers, sovereign institutions and AI companies would assistance accelerate partnerships, unlock superior opportunities and enactment its introduction into caller markets arsenic contention intensifies successful AI infrastructure development.