Khadija Mustafa advises governments, boards, family offices, and founders on AI strategy and how to build and compete in a world where technology, capital, and geopolitics are interwoven.
Across seven divisions and over 23 years at Microsoft, she led global sales and commercial strategy building and running the teams, partnerships, and go-to-market that generated billions in revenue. She shaped product direction and was an early pioneer in commercialization of enterprise AI, including Physical AI, now recognized as the next major wave of AI growth. At G42, backed by Mubadala, Silver Lake, Microsoft, and the Dalio Family Office, she led global partnerships for Core42, working at the forefront of sovereign AI with the world’s largest technology companies, unicorns, and startups across the world.
Her distinctive lens combines Big Tech commercial depth, cross-cultural fluency across 80 countries, and having worked inside the sovereign AI ecosystem where nations are deciding how to own and deploy intelligence at scale. She is a founding member of CHIEF, mentors founders through Harvard’s Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator and speaks at TEDx, Davos, the Harvard Business School YPO program, and global leadership and family office forums. Based between New York and Abu Dhabi.
