CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ TC – GITEX 2019 ’ 221 recalls . After obtaining a bachelor ’ s in Computer and Information Systems from King Faisal University , and following a stint running her own software business , Aljamea accepted a government scholarship to travel to London where , after completing a Masters and obtained her PhD in Computer Security from King ’ s College in 2016 . Specialising in algorithm design for cyber security , she is a certified Ethical Hacker , a veteran of working in academia , and became the first woman to join STC ’ s executive team in February 2019 . “ Because
I have this mixture of technical and academic backgrounds , I found the idea of working in a corporate academy very interesting ,” she remembers . “ I think it ’ s a known problem that there ’ s this gap between academia and industry . Working at the Academy presents the opportunity to do both at the same time and help fill this gap , which is exciting .”
The role of the STC Academy as an education provider to the company ’ s executive staff presents Aljamea and her team with an interesting set of challenges . “ They are almost all experts
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