About Wael Abdelmalek — AI System Architect.

Wael is the CEO and co-founder of Uthereal, a Zurich-based startup turning expert knowledge into secure, enterprise-grade AI systems that automate work, protect IP, and unlock new revenue.

He got a full scholarship to do a PhD. Six months later, he dropped out. Research moves in years. He wanted to build things and see people use them in real time.

So he went to work instead — leading forensic analytics on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy at PwC, running data quality for the WHO's Ebola response in Geneva, building an award-winning analytics team at Credit Suisse, and co-authoring research with ETH Zurich along the way. Most recently, he led GenAI go-to-market initiatives at AWS, generating $80M+ in sales in a single year.

Business is becoming code.

— The Uthereal thesis

Then came HackZurich — Europe's biggest hackathon, 5,000 applicants. Microsoft, Swiss Re, and Randstad all picked his solution. That is where he met his co-founder.

He started Uthereal because he had watched the same story from every angle — forensics, regulators, banks, hyperscalers. Brilliant operators sitting on decades of expertise, getting sold AI demos that fell apart the moment a real document hit them. He decided to build the version that actually works.

The thesis: business is becoming code. Consulting, legal, supply chain — expertise that lives in people's heads and slow PDFs, codified into agents that actually execute. Processes that used to take years, taking days.

Wael's dad always told him to stop building for others. He was right.