Al Hassawi joined du in 2006, was appointed as acting CEO in September 2020, and became CEO in June 2021. In June 2024, du announced the deployment of Oracle Alloy to offer hyper-scale cloud and sovereign AI services for the government and public sector entities in the U.A.E. By the end of the first half of 2024, du reported total assets of $4.4 billion and revenues of $1.1 billion. In April 2024, Al Hassawi was appointed chairman of du Pay.