Dr. Mongi Gazelle · CIO · CISO
I’ve led $20M digital transformation programmes for Emirates, Microsoft, ALDI Nord, SABIC, Volkswagen, Sennheiser, and 40+ more — across 60 countries, in 5 languages.
Now I’m writing the operating manuals working professionals need to come out of the AI shift on top — practical, role-specific, built from first-hand work.
30+
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45+
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5
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MIT CTO Certification
Three decades · 45+ organisations · 60 countries
Three decades of CIO and CISO work — global brands, German mittelstand, Gulf operators, public bodies. The guides on this site are distilled from the work done for the organisations below.
VW Financial Services
Carlson Wagonlit
Qatargas
Saudi American Bank
FISP
Polizei
Deutsche Bank
Commerzbank
Sparkasse+ many more · names listed where the engagement permits
01 · The Flagship
Selected for May 2026 · pre-order open
For mid-career professionals 35–55
A day-by-day plan to make yourself the person who runs the AI — not the one it replaces.
02 · Operating principles
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Every guide is built on first-hand work — the kind of work the buyer is preparing to face. Not a course built on top of a course.
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Day-by-day actions, named workflows, real prompts, measurable outcomes. If a line cannot survive the Tuesday-morning test, it does not ship.
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14-day no-questions money back on every guide and every subscription. If the work has not paid back inside two weeks, the refund is automatic.
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Written by a CISO who has spent 30 years protecting other people’s data. No tracking, no remarketing, no profile sold on. We hold only what the order needs.
The Catalog
1 available · 5 on the schedule
A 50-question compliance workbook
What Annex III actually requires of you, in plain language. A workbook a non-lawyer can finish in a week.
90 pages · PDF · 14-day refund
€39
€79
The architecture every modern professional should grasp
Enterprise microsegmentation, translated. The literacy non-engineers need to make better decisions.
55 pages · PDF · 14-day refund
€19
€39
A 12-month operating plan, from the inside
Operating model, governance, capability planning, value realisation. The agenda decomposed for the next quarter.
110 pages · PDF · 14-day refund
€49
€99
A 90-day path to certification
Exactly what to build, in what order — with the policies and evidence that pass auditors.
95 pages · PDF · 14-day refund
€39
€79
What a CISO does — and what your career should learn from it
Threat models, response plans, blast-radius thinking — applied to your own career, not server racks.
60 pages · PDF · 14-day refund
€19
€39
Need a guide on a specific role? Subscribe and reply with the role — every reply is read.
From the desk of the CIO
“AI doesn’t replace people. It replaces the version of you that hasn’t yet learned to operate it. These guides are the operating manual I would hand my best friend at 47, written from inside the rooms where the decisions are actually made.”
03 · The Boardroom Library
Two new guides every month, drawn directly from work I am doing inside the boardroom — operating models, governance frameworks, cyber-resilience playbooks, AI-readiness diagnostics. The library opens with the second release in late May 2026.
€19/mo
Monthly · cancel anytime
€179/yr
Yearly · save €49
Founders' pricing held for the first 100 subscribers. Lifetime access (€499) opens at the same time.
About · Dr. Mongi Gazelle
Now I’m writing what I learned, in the language people doing the actual work can use on a Tuesday morning.
Dr. Mongi Gazelle
CIO · CISO · Doctorate in AI & Digital Transformation
I’m Mongi. Almost four decades ago I started in IT in Germany. Today I run group cybersecurity transformation in the GCC and I’m available as interim CISO, CTO, or CIO when an organisation needs a steady hand on the bridge. Between those two points are $20M of programmes, 45+ organisations, and 60 countries — banks, airlines, oil & gas operators, retailers, hospitals, federal authorities, and the world’s biggest software brands.
I’ve been the CIO behind transformations at Emirates and Etihad Airways. The CISO modernising defences for SABIC and QatarEnergy. The architect of ISO 27001 programmes that put 20,000 users through audit with a 100% pass rate. I’ve consulted for Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Volkswagen, Deutsche Telekom, DHL, ALDI Nord, EDEKA, Sparda Bank, Postbank, and dozens more.
In every one of those rooms, the same conversation comes up: what does this actually mean for the people doing the work?
The honest answer — the one most decks won’t print — is that AI is rewriting job descriptions quarter by quarter. I’ve watched which roles get cut, which roles get amplified, which workflows automate, which become more human.
That’s why this site exists. Every guide here is the operating manual I would hand the professional on the other side of the board decisions I’ve sat through for 30 years.
Not theory. Not conference talk-track. The actions that work on a Tuesday, in your industry, in your role.
Direct line
Press, speaking, team licences, a question on a guide, or a board-level cybersecurity / AI / transformation conversation — every message lands in my inbox. I’m the one who replies, usually within two working days.
Reply window
Two working days
Languages
AR · FR · EN · DE · NL
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Boards · CIOs · founders
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Your name, your message
04 · The Reader Wall
The flagship guide ships Friday 15 May 2026. If it lands, reply to the receipt — credited or anonymous, your call — and your line goes here.