
Ashraf Alkishawi (LinkedIn, opens in a new tab)
Founder and CEO
Ashraf Alkishawi has spent 25 years building the systems enterprises actually run on. Symantec, Nokia, Panasonic Avionics, BAE Systems, Verizon: environments where downtime is not an option and trust is earned in production. He has led a security division as a vice president, run his own software company, and in recent years built an enterprise AI digital workforce of more than 25 production agents.
FNG is what that career was building toward. He watched organizations adopt AI the way they once adopted the cloud: fast, fragmented, and without the governance that real operations demand. He founded Fortress NetGuard to close that gap, so organizations get the leverage of an AI workforce with the controls, auditability, and human oversight enterprise work requires. Numik is that conviction, shipped.
Selected accomplishments
- Built an enterprise AI department from the ground up with 25+ production AI agents under centralized orchestration
- Directed a $1.2M IT program for the Ar-Riyadh Development Authority, managing 45 professionals across four countries
- Authored the 600-page proposal that won Metro Cab a five-year City of Santa Monica franchise against 13 competitors
- Led full-lifecycle development of a security plugin protecting 36,000+ databases across 4,000 users