Mr. Mussad is the Chief Human Resources Officer of Takamol Company in charge of growing local talents through business and series of development programs that will help to achieve Takamol vision. He is responsible for the strategic development for senior management, leading recruitment, retention and expanding its corporate culture as the company ramps up for significant growth in the Saudi market.

Mr. Mussad has 16 years of experience. He has worked with Elm information security, Dale Carnegie International, Northrop Grumman, Bank AlBilad and Saudi Exports. With different roles and responsibilities, Mr. Mussad has worked in the talent and Human Resources field, brought expertise in diversity, reward and recognition, talent acquisition management, organizational and professional development to help organization’s grow and thrive. Proven success implementing best practices in leader’s development initiatives that have produced highly skilled team members where they achieved desired results.

Mr. Mussad has participated heavily in establishing Takamol and its subsidisers. Each subsidiary has its own strategy, customers, products, and targeted segment of employees. Takamol and its subsidiaries are now profitable and selfsustained organizations.

Mr. Mussad applies a non-traditional human capital mindset. To him, understanding your own clints, own talents, own product is a step for success. However, applying rules just for rules is a step for failure.

Manish Mohan Mishra | Group Head, HR Transformation & Special Projects at Emirates National Oil Company, Dubai Manish is a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council. He had the privilege of working across multiple industries in start-ups, the established organizations in the Middle East, India & SE Asia with organizations like TATA STEEL & Consulting firm – Hay Group managing several large-scale transformation projects. Manish has 25 years of experience as HR consultant and leader. Armed with MBA – HR from Symbiosis, Pune and Post Graduate in Digital Transformation from Purdue University. He is a trainer and keynote speaker on FOW and Digitization of HR. As a consultant, he was involved in supporting over 70 organizations in BFSI, Govt., Infrastructure and Oil & Gas sector, developing HR strategy, operating model, HR transformation & change agenda. In his current role, he is driving the HR transformation, has been involved in M&A for the group. Manish’s key expertise lies in aligning & transforming end to end HR with business strategy. He is very passionate about digital HR, transformation & analytics.

Nawaf Kably has more than 25 years of experience in human resources in global organisations with industry background in Aviation and Aerospace, Telecom and Banking. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds a Post Graduate degree from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, specialising in Human Resources Development and Performance Management. He is currently the Chief Human Resources Officer for Gulf International Bank (GIB), in Saudi Arabia.

Areej Al Shaibani is currently the Senior Proficient Organizational Planning- Omantel. She is a keynote Speaker in international conferences in HR, Change management and digital transformation Previously worked as Director of Human Resource Development at the Information Technology Authority- Oman. She is a great motivator who promotes learning and development culture which helps create a positive culture in the organization.

She used to work in Innovation and Creativity towards building capacity and she is professionally certified in Talent Management and Employee Engagement, as well as Strategic Planning Development and Strategic Performance Management. Areej also holds a certificate for Career Development and Certified Succession Planning from the George Washington University in the UK 2015.

Areej holds master’s degree in Management and Entrepreneurship (Subtitle: The impact of Artificial Intelligence on HRD) from Cranfield University-UK 2022. Areej has been an active member of the Change Management Committee and the OSHRM, while leading the Human Resources Development projects and providing consultancy to government entities. She has been an expert in Return on Investment since 2013 and is an expert in motivational and engagement programs.

Nadeem recently relocated to Dubai from London to work with Aramex as their CHRO. He is a senior business executive with extensive global human capital leadership experience in the Consumer Goods, Retail & Industrial sectors. His key competence and experience are in the areas of senior executive search, reward design, talent development, succession, C-suite coaching, integration of senior leadership hires, performance and organisational design. He is also well experienced in M&A due diligence with reference to people and organisation. Before joining Aramex, Nadeem was Global CHRO at Dyson in the UK prior to which he was at Reckitt, a multinational FMCG where he was a member of the Global HR Leadership team for over 9 years. At RB, he was Area HR Director for Developing Markets, which included Greater China, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, South Asia and Latin America regions with global people responsibility for e-Commerce.

As Global HR Director for Talent & Leadership, he established the Centres of Excellence for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development and led HR Technology. Based in Dubai as Area HR Director for Russia CIS Middle East & Africa including Turkey and Israel, he established a new geographic region with focus on talent transformation and white space expansion. Based at RB’s HQ in the UK as Global Functions HR Director, he has been a trusted advisor to members of RB’s Executive Committee and senior leaders. Nadeem has also worked with Emaar in Dubai where he was the HR Director for Shopping Malls and Retail.

He is also an Advisory Partner at August Leadership, a global executive search firm headquartered in New York and an Angel Investor with start-ups in the UK. With his birthplace being Saudi Arabia, he lived and studied up to his teenage years in the country. International exposure and development then continued globally as he developed professionally and lived in the UK, Africa and Middle East with increasing levels of global responsibility. Nadeem earned his MBA in International Business from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, Pakistan, is a Chartered MCIPD, graduated as a Business Coach with Meyler Campbell and completed his Non-Executive Director Diploma in the UK with Financial Times.

Khaled helps organizations improve performance through people. He delivers bespoke solutions based on specific customer needs and unique issues. He gained his HR and consulting experience through working with multinationals such as Shell and Schlumberger, and regionally at Petroleum Development Oman in various talent and capability building capacities. He blends an engineering structured and project-based approach with an in-depth understanding and appreciation of people issues and complexities to help customers and leaders reach transformative insights while keeping it simple, practical and outcome oriented. He is a multi-lingual facilitator and coach, experienced in delivering programs in Arabic, English and Russian

Nabil Almessabi serves as TAQA’s Chief Human Resources Officer, a position he has held since August 2021. In this role, he oversees the strategic development of human resources and administration, as key enablers to TAQA’s growth ambitions.

Prior to his role at TAQA, he served as Chief Human Resources Officer for TRANSCO and was the Executive Director of Human Capital & Communications at Abu Dhabi Power Corporation. With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Almessabi has held leading positions across the oil and gas, real estate and tourism sectors in the UAE.

Mr. Almessabi holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the UAE University, a Management Diploma from the University of Cambridge – Judge Business School and a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD.”

Rahul Bharti is the head of human resources for international business at Zee Entertainment. In this role, he leads the people agenda to create a global media entertainment company from emerging markets.

He has a track record to drive strategic alignment & cultural transformation in complex global organizations to advance talent agenda, build organizational capability & manage change.

Rahul was the head of human resources for international business at Dabur International & Britannia Industries. He led people strategy for sales, marketing & manufacturing in diverse cultures. He has led post-merger integration of company acquisitions in USA & Turkey.

Prior to moving to MEA region, Rahul led reward & performance strategy, talent management & HR business partnering at STMicroelectronics, India Design Center. He was the country HR manager for ST-Ericsson.

He has led diverse teams, building high trust, high performance culture during periods of rapid growth & declining sales, delivering on customer & stakeholders’ commitment.

He is a Chartered Fellow from CIPD, UK, with an MBA in Human Resources & Industrial Relations and higher certifications from international bodies.

Background in media entertainment, consumer goods (CPG) & hi-tech semiconductor industry.

Specialties: organizational development, organization design, reward & performance strategy, talent management, M&A, workplace culture, turnaround management

Mr. Samer Bokharee holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Decision Sciences & Management Information Systems from George Mason University.  Mr. Samer Has 20 years’ experience in the Human Resources field across different industries and markets. He started his career in Saudi Arabia with Unilever in 2004, progressing to HR Manager before joining the National Commercial Bank (NCB).

Within his 7 years at NCB, Mr. Samer evolved from AVP, Head of Talent Management to Vice President, Head of Human Resources Strategy. He then continued his professional journey by spending 5 years at Pfizer, first taking on the Role of Human Resources Director for Saudi Arabia in 2013 and then attaining the Position of Human Resources Sub regional Director, responsible for Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Levant countries.

Mr. Samer Joined the Nahdi Family in 2018 as the Chief Human Resources Officer.  Since then, he has lead the people agenda while positioning NMC as an officially certified Great Place to Work Company. Mr. Samer also helped establish the new NMC legal entity as well as the launch of the NahdiCare Clinic business.