BTA has named Dr. Fatena El-Masri as AI Practice Leader, bringing more than 18 years of AI, machine learning, and data science experience across the FDIC, JPMorgan Chase, and the Royal Australian Navy.
Veteran of the FDIC, JPMorgan Chase, and the Royal Australian Navy brings 18+ years of AI leadership in regulated, high-stakes environments.
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Business Technology Architects (BTA) today named Dr. Fatena El-Masri AI Practice Leader. She will drive strategy, architecture, and delivery for BTA's AI practice, which helps enterprises bring AI in-house to protect intellectual property, strengthen security, and maintain data sovereignty.
The appointment follows BTA's completion of the Cisco AI Technical Assessment under Cisco's MINT (Mentored Install Network Training) program in July. BTA has shipped more than 1,000 projects on its SIMPLE methodology with zero project failures.
Dr. El-Masri joins with more than 18 years of AI/ML and data science leadership across government, defense, and finance. She spent 13 years at the FDIC leading quantitative risk analytics and AI/NLP innovation, earning three FDIC STAR Awards. As Executive Director of Data Analytics & ML Intelligence Operations at JPMorgan Chase, she led four enterprise AI products, including the agent assistant EVEE, that generated more than $10M in annual savings. As an AI/ML Lead and Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Australian Navy, she directed prototyping for the Maritime Warfare Center and raised analyst productivity by 36%.
"Enterprises don't struggle to start AI projects. They struggle to get them into production with their data protected and their regulators satisfied," said Ken Fee, CEO and co-founder of BTA. "Fatena has carried AI from whiteboard to production for one of the world's largest banks, a federal regulator, and a navy. Our customers now get that experience on their side of the table."
She is also a builder. Dr. Fatena El-Masri works hands-on across the full machine learning lifecycle, developing LLM and generative AI solutions with PyTorch, JAX, and Hugging Face. She holds a PhD in Computational Science, Informatics & Data Analytics from George Mason University, brings regulatory fluency in Basel II/III and NCUA standards, and maintains an active Secret security clearance. She has taught at George Mason University and George Washington University, and is fluent in English, Arabic, and French.
"What drew me to BTA is that they architect, design, and deploy end to end, then mentor the customer's team to run it themselves," said Dr. El-Masri. "That is how AI adoption should work. My job is to make sure every customer who brings AI in-house with BTA gets both the business strategy and the engineering rigor the technology demands."
Under Dr. El-Masri, BTA's AI practice covers:
- Pre-sales AI architecture assessments and readiness reviews
- AI pod design and deployment, including Secure AI Factory configurations
- Workload security and observability for AI environments
- Post-deployment optimization and Day-2 handoff to the customer's own team
The practice serves enterprise and mid-market customers in defense, banking, finance, insurance, healthcare, energy, and other regulated and critical-infrastructure sectors. BTA is vendor-agnostic, with engagements spanning Cisco, Red Hat, AWS, Microsoft, VMware, and NetApp.
Enterprises evaluating an in-house AI deployment can book a 30-minute scoping call with us.
Business Technology Architects (BTA) delivers business outcomes through people, process, and software. BTA architects, designs, and deploys end to end using its SIMPLE methodology (Start, Immerse, Map, Prove, Launch, Evolve), then mentors customer teams to operate and maintain what it builds. The firm has shipped more than 1,000 projects with zero project failures and secured more than 250 customers. BTA's portfolio spans AI consulting and infrastructure, security policy automation software, and enterprise networking services. Learn more at GoBTA.com.
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