Zahid Rasheed

I spearhead the AI transformation at Aeven, bridging executive strategy with hands-on technical execution. My primary mandate is to operationalize AI across the enterprise while ensuring strict compliance, robust governance, and alignment with European sovereign infrastructure standards. By treating AI as both a strategic asset and a rigorous engineering discipline, I enable the business to move from internal experimentation to scalable customer offerings — safely and profitably.

We build on sovereign European infrastructure so data, models, and inference stay within trusted borders. I believe sovereignty will move from niche concern to default requirement for enterprises, the public sector, and critical digital services, as geopolitical tension and cross-border data risk grow.

Before Aeven, I spent years at YouSee, growing from Senior Software Engineer to Head of Development. I led a Development cluster of around 70 talented people with an annual budget of ~62 M DKK (OpEx and cloud) through business, organisational, and technical change — delivering measurable outcomes on digital products used at national scale across TV, streaming, music, and connected home, while continuously reducing running costs through technology and organisational transformation. Before that, I built consumer mobile products at Kayak (Booking Holdings).

In 2024, I was selected for Berlingske’s Talent 100 — young leaders with impact in Danish society.

Originally from Pakistan, I live in Denmark. Apart from being a technology freak, I enjoy photography, love to travel, and strive to improve as a person every day.