Tareq Amin is recognised as one of the world’s foremost innovators in telecommunications and artificial intelligence. A graduate of Portland State University in Electrical Engineering and Physics, he began his career at Intel before holding senior roles at T-Mobile and Huawei. At Reliance Jio, he spearheaded India’s 4G revolution, serving hundreds of millions through automation and scalability. As CTO of Rakuten Mobile (2018–2023), Amin built the world’s first fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network using Open RAN, later serving as CEO of Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Mobile. After briefly leading Aramco Digital, he was appointed CEO of HUMAIN in May 2025, a PIF-backed AI company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. HUMAIN’s initiatives include 500 MW data centers, an Arabic multimodal LLM, and partnerships with Nvidia, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential in AI 2025, Amin champions ethical, human-centric AI aligned with Saudi Vision 2030.