VivoPower PLC (NASDAQ: VIVO) announced the appointment of Khadija Mustafa to its Advisory Council. Mustafa brings over two decades of technology leadership experience with expertise in artificial intelligence strategy and international partnerships.

Mustafa spent 23 years at Microsoft, where she headed Global Sales & Partnerships for Industrial Metaverse Core in the Cloud & AI division. She also served as head of global partnerships for Core 42, part of G42, an Abu Dhabi-based AI group backed by Mubadala, Microsoft, Silverlake, and the Dalio Family Office.

"Sovereign AI is becoming the operating system of nations, shaping how they compete, secure their interests, and govern in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape," Mustafa said. "VivoPower is building at this critical convergence of energy, land, and compute with clarity and focus."

Kevin Chin, Executive Chairman and CEO of VivoPower, said Mustafa has built and scaled AI businesses across competitive and strategically important markets. He noted her understanding of how infrastructure, capital, and policy intersect in the AI era across multiple sovereign jurisdictions.

Mustafa currently serves as Founder and CEO of Beyyond.ai, a strategic advisory firm helping nations, boards, family offices, funds, and founders build AI ecosystems. She also works as a Lead Business Mentor and Advisor for the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator.

During her Microsoft tenure, she oversaw go-to-market strategies for AI and autonomous systems and played a role in a technology acquisition valued at $8.5 billion. She managed a multi-billion-dollar commercial supply chain for hardware devices and led expansion of a health technology business across 79 countries in the Middle East and Africa.

VivoPower describes itself as a B Corp-certified global developer and owner of powered land and data center infrastructure for AI compute applications, with operations spanning the United Kingdom, Australia, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.