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Michelangelo Neri appointed Division Country Director for the Security Solutions and Services Division in the UAE
February 2009 by Marc Jacob
Thales has appointed Michelangelo Neri as
Division Country Director in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In his new
position, he will coordinate all marketing and sales activities, for
Thales’s Security Solutions and Services business in the UAE. He is also
Director of the Integration Center based in Dubai in charge of Thales’s
different security programs in the Dubai and Doha airports, as well as the
Dubai Metro project, and Abu Dhabi Oil & Gas projects.
Michelangelo Neri joined Thales in January 2007 and most recently became
Director of Thales’s Dubai Integration Center, the company’s second largest
Integration Center within its Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) network.
Employing more than 200 people, it serves the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and
Qatar. Prior to joining Thales, Michelangelo Neri was in charge of an Oil
and Gas Project for Alcatel-Lucent in Libya.
With its regional headquarters in Dubai Thales has established a strong
presence over the last 30 years In the Gulf Coast region. Its network of
local integration centers and partnerships enables Thales to work closely
with its clients in each country. Thales, the largest system integrator in
the region, has more than 1000 employees throughout the GCC and is a
strategic partner to a vast number of governmental and private customers.
