 Abdulsalam H Muflehi is the Logistics & Procurement Manager in GlaxoSmithKline Saudi Arabia, a part of the world leading pharmaceutical company. He has more than 10 years experience in the pharma industry, leading the procurement, supply and planning as well as the warehousing activity, putting the strategies and mitigating supply risk at the same time leading the continuous process improvement to achieve the customer satisfaction. He has a BBA and an MBA as well as a Greenbelt certificate on Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma
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 Ali Matar works in Oracle Corporation, with a career spanning the stream of supply chain, from procurement to logistics. This regional responsibility has seen him extend consultancy to the Mediterranean Oil and Gas industries.
Ali has a MBA with an engineering background from the American University of Lebanon. |
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 Dr Amjad Aslam Siddiqi is a Business focused Professor of Engineering, with a 25 year, diverse career in the MENA region, as well as the US, where he undertook the Doctorate program at UCLA. He sits on the advisory panel of ADNOC and shares his wealth of experience at various academic forums. |
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 Anis Tabka has enjoyed an excellent broad based career within the Telecommunications industry, taking him across cultures and continents. He is currently the Executive Director Supply Chain in du, where he is in the midst of a unique and more importantly an extremely successful ‘Technology implementation process’ unique to the region, where his challenges lie in satisfying existing customers who have been with the incumbent, product launching and positioning procurement based strategy.
Anis is an avid runner and competitively participates in marathons globally.
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 Bob McCrory works with Afrox, part of the BOC group as Business Manager Safety Products. He has a degree in Physics and Chemistry, a Post Graduate Diploma in Fuel Technology and Power Engineering and an MBA from The University of Cape Town, with a distinction in his marketing thesis. Bob has worked in supply chain management roles across various industries including clothing, hardware, motor manufacturing and mining. |
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 Dr Dermot Carey is a Procurement management consultant, trainer and business coach, whose experienced career of 35 years has seen him accomplish major assignments in significant industries, throughout the five continents. Dr Carey is the founding member of the North/South Public Procurement Initiative. Recently he co-authored ‘Co-operation to win in Europe’; a paper, approved by the Dept of Finance, Dublin, which was the basis of intergovernmental agreement in Public Procurement .He has worked extensively on organizational procurement structures to achieve cost reduction within global multi-nationals, in line with corporate strategies . His engagements include his presence as a visiting professor at universities across Europe, lecturing the graduate class at post graduate programmes level . He also sits on various boards involved in strategic process planning, including NHS,UK Government depts and developed and implemented an integrated procurement structure for a Dublin Hospital, which has been recommended nationwide. |
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 Gary F Gribben is a Project Leader at BAPCO ( Bahrain Oil Company ), specializing on the cultural impact of project development and virtual teaming of IT Oil and Gas industry in the region, as organizations connect through global networks. Gary’s significant achievements include leading a team as Senior IT project Leader e-procurement and tendering, for a US$880 million investment. |
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 Dr. Graham R Smith is the SAP Supply Chain Superintendent for Sohar Aluminium, specializing in the Procure to Pay Process (and EH & S). He is an experienced Supply Chain Management (ERP Systems) professional, including more traditional Contracting and Procurement methods and processes and possess a thorough and detailed knowledge of SCM Systems in such environments as Oil & Gas Exploration and Production, including Construction. He posseses the ability to provide detailed planning for delivery of strategic solutions using best practices, utilising BE, BPR and the newer BEPL Tools and Techniques, E-Commerce and Workflow Strategies. Dr Smith is a member of the ‘Internet Society’ and the ‘British Computer Society’ in many countries, where he focuses on bridging the digital divide and an active member of the UN Development Programme for internet use. He engages in presentation opportunities at summits with the likes of Bill Clinton and publishes papers on process change on Contracting in Procurement. |
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Imtiaz Ali – Director of Sales
Tejari
Imtiaz is the Director of Sales for Tejari. He has over 7 years of experience as a consultant in the e-procurement world. He has been involved in projects assessing and improving operations in the public and private sectors. He has extensive strategic sourcing event management experience along with procurement consulting for organizations like The Emirates Group, Dubai Government, Dubai World, Dubai Duty Free, Etihad Airways etc. Imtiaz’s expertise covers a wide array of disciplines – some of which include: strategy development, business process redesign, performance management, operational design and effectiveness, and service delivery optimization (including electronic and procurement services).He has also been involved in various capacities with complex e-procurement readiness assessment exercises for many local and international financial institutions. His involvement included anywhere from carrying out “as-is” analysis to the development of “to- be” models and procurement options to move forward. He also has been extensively involved in the capacity of Project Manager on several successful Strategic Sourcing Event initiatives for organizations representing the banking and financial sector, aviation industry, manufacturing sector, hospitality industry, construction industry and the public sector at large where key success factors identified by the clients were achieved from cost savings to transparency to control have been witnessed. He is member of Institute of Supply Management (ISM) and has achieved the highest designation offered by the institution that is, CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) . He is also a member of Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Management (CIPS), Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and Association of Operations Management (APICS) |
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 Dr Mark Osa Igiehon is a senior legal counsel with Shell UK. His extensive career between the continents of Africa and Europe, has helped him gain experience both in the profession and the industry, specifically in cross Oil and Gas, where he has been the secretary to Shell’s tender board, specializing in Contracting and Procurement on exclusive large scale projects. He is a regular contributor to Legal journals in various areas including decommissioning and international law in the Oil and Gas industry. |
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 Mehdi Attarha is an Industrial Engineering graduate from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and has served as an instructor at the University of Toronto. Mehdi is a Supply Chain Management professional with over 12 years of consulting and business experience in both North America and the Middle East. His career record includes working big five consulting organizations and starting his own consulting company. Mehdi has successfully completed numerous complex projects involving the optimization and streamlining performance in supply chain management environment ranging from manufacturing and distribution strategies to strategic sourcing and demand forecasting. Mehdi has been working as a business development manager at Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) for the past two years where his focus is to develop and execute businesses that are strategically fit and financially viable and add value to DHCC’s mission and vision. |
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 Mehmet Deniz Kilyar’s career in Turkey has seen him lead projects optimising package allocation of PET bottle blowing lines at Coca Cola Bottlers to Procurement at Oracle within the Energy and Utilities industry in their senior management team across the MENA region, with a focus on Capital Investments. Mehmet holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Middle East Technical University of Ankara, Turkey. |
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 Dr Paul Polanski is an IT systems analyst, currently researching security, e-government and e-learning applications, with a focus on e-procurement law and policy. His career as a legal advisor on IT legal issues has benefited various industries in Europe and Australia, which includes consumer focused advise. He has currently undertaken joint research with Kozminsk Academy and Warsaw University. |
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 Peter Garnett is currently Managing Director of Anova Insite Limited, a specialist procurement, supply chain and change management consultancy. Peter has 30 years experience in leading the procurement and supply functions of major global organisations in the pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors.
During the last eight years as a senior consultant, Peter has led substantial procurement and supply chain improvement programmes for international, blue chip organisations in the public, private and not for profit sectors.
Peter has personally specialised in determining and assessing behavioural capability in procurement and supply chain people. He has developed unique, web-based processes for this purpose. Peter is retained to advise global organisations upon the selection, development and organisation of individuals and teams, with his assessment programmes successfully used in 47 different countries. |
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 Mr. Semih Sen has a vast experience in healthcare project development and financing on an international scale. Prior joining Dubai Healthcare City, Mr. Sen was the President of Casta Consultancy and Regional Advisor for Harvard Medical International. Mr. Sen has also served as Director of European Business Development for DVI, Inc. and served as Board Members of Turkey’s first JCI accredited hospital Istanbul Memorial and first full scope cancer treatment facility Acibadem Cancer Center. In his earlier career he has worked as Asst. Marketing Director for Siemens Leasing and has helped establish Siemens’ first captive financial services companies outside Germany.
Mr. Sen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bosphorus University in Business Administration and has attended International Business Strategy Program of London School of Economics and Entrepreneurial Healthcare Management at Harvard University School of Public Health. He is married and has 2 children.
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 Rupali Roy Choudhury is a Spend Manager - Asia Pacific Region, Ariba Inc, India where she has worked on EDA software for clients in the Asian Pacific region, with a career in indirect Procurement, capital project buys, automation and contracts for a decade now. She has presented papers at the IIMM ( Indian Institute of Materials Manufacturers ), which is the largest gathering of e-procurement professionals in India, for 3 consecutive years focusing on sustainable development. |
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 Rod Lewis
Lead Associate
Performance Consulting, UK Rod has been associated with the Performance Consulting network since March 2001 where he is responsible for delivering training programmes and consultancy assignments in the areas of supplier management, contract management, purchasing and negotiation for a range of clients. He has been in senior management for numerous years and in various industries. He was the Chief Buyer for car manufacturer, Austin Rover, responsible for leading a team in the procurement and negotiation of civil engineering contracts, major plant and equipment purchases and small works agreements. Rod worked with power tool manufacturer Black & Decker where he was their European Group Commodity Manager, responsible for procurement and negotiation of international contracts for supply of materials to Black & Decker’s factories in Europe and the Americas.Whilst working with Caradon Everest, a home improvements company as Operations Director, he was responsible for procurement and negotiation of major contracts, with functional responsibility for all materials purchases. |
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 Shashi Shekhar is a member of management team of Emirates SkyCargo Freight Transportation and Distribution Division of Emirates Airline. Shashi specialises in business development by leveraging his practical skills/knowledge. Shashi graduated with Masters of Technology in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. Shashi Shekhar is the Founder President of Supply Chain and Logistics Group . He is also the Founder President of Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Dubai Roundtable . He also serves on the board of advisors at CSCMP, USA. Being an member of several boards has seen Shashi parting knowledge at various conferences across the five continents. |
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 Sherif’s career has taken him across Europe, from petrochemicals, through a broad spectrum of blue chip industries in Europe, followed by a Masters from Kellogg which bought him to the region in FMCG. Sherif is currently the Head of Purchasing for the Middle East at Nestle. |
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 Yasser Hamdan Abdul Rahman graduated in Mechanical Engineering, to pursue a career with multinational organizations, on leading global projects. His area of expertise has often identified streamlining contracts and identifying added value to the Petrochemical industry within the MENA region |