Industry leaders
Educational institute
Advisory Committee

Hussein Al Qahtani
GDA Chairman
Senior Vice President, Fuels

Abdullah S. Al-Arifi
Vice President, Corporate Affairs


Wadha Al Khateeb
GDA Vice Chairperson
CEO


Sultan Al Bigishi
GDA Board Member
CEO, ADNOC Refining


Kamil Al Shanfari
GDA Board Member
CEO, OQ Refineries and Petroleum Industries


Shafi Al-Ajmi
GDA Board Member
President and CEO


Afaf Zainalabedin
GDA Board Member And Financial Secretary
Deputy CEO


Bassam Al-Bokhari
GDA Secretary General
CEO


Ahmed Al-Ghamdi
CEO


Anwar A. Al-Hejazi
CEO


Fayez Al Sharif
CEO


Khalid A. Al-Harthi
President and CEO


Vincent Servello
President


Mohammad Al-Hatlani
President and CEO


Omar Al Thukair
Vice President and Chief Digital Officer

Saad Binmatlig
President and CEO


Samer Bin Abdulaziz Al Hokail
President and CEO


Uthman Al-Ghamdi
President and CEO


Walid Al Naim
Vice President and Chief Engineer

Fadi Al-Jafari
Vice President- Saudi Arabia and Bahrain


Brian Paliotti
President


Jamal Muashsher
President and CEO


Saad Al Qahtani
Sr VP Oil and Gas, Board Chair and Member


Abdullah S. Al Sayed
President and CEO


Quentin Debuissch
Chairman and CEO


Joe Tarantola
Chairman and CEO


Mohammed AlFarsi
President and CEO


Matt Spalding
Vice President, Honeywell Energy and Sustainability Solutions


Ahmad Al-Abdrabbuh
Sr. Executive Vice President & Board Director


Mr. Norinao Sato
President & CEO
Yokogawa Middle East & Africa B.S.C.(c)


Dean Curtis
CEO


H.E. Prof. Ebrahim Al Hajri
President


Prof. Fawaz S. Al-Anzi
Vice President, Abdullah Al Salem University


Prof. Khamis bin Hamad Al Yahyai
Vice Chancellor


DR. Fuad Mohammed Al-Ansari
President


Professor Kuo-Wei (Andy) Huang
Associate Vice President, Research


Dr. Faisal Salman Al-Humaidan
Acting General Director


Dr. Hassan Baaqeel
Assistant Professor and Dean of College of Chemicals and Materials


Abbas S. Al Ghamdi
Director, Research and Analytical Services Department


Abdulsalam AlSaif
Director, Ras Tanura Refinery Operations Department


Ahmed Abdullah Al Haddad
Chief of Public Relations


Faisal Al Balushi
Chief People and Technology Officer RPI


Jamilah Abdullah Almutairi
Manager, Technical Services


Hamid A. AlHarthi
Director, Global Sustainability Policy and Advocacy


Mohammed M Baobaid
Vice President, Business Support ADNOC Refining


Roberto Grillo
Director, Refining


Sayed Mahmood Alawi
Senior Vice President, Technical Services


Jad Dib
Partner, Dubai

Organizing Committee

Conference Chairman
Mr. Mitib Al Harbi
Vice President, Fuels Business Management

Operation Committee Chair
Ammar Zaatari
Director

Program Committee Chair
Abdalaziz Albalawi
Director and Chief Transformation Officer

PMO Lead
Eman Al khonaifer

Project Coordinator
Faisal Y. Al-Dossary
Sr. Marketing Coordinator, Fuels

Committee Vice-Chair
Emad A Al-Muhaisen
Assistant, SVP Western Region Manuffacturing

Workstream Coordinator
Mohammed Al-Mansouri
Manager,Technical and Marketing, GDA Coordinator, LBO Joint Venture

Health, Safety And Environment
Leadership And People Development
Operational Excellence
Project Management
Plant Reliability And Integrity
Energy Management
Industry-Trends
Technologies
Digitalisation
Research and Lab
Commissioning And Start Up

HEBAH BADER HUSSAIN
Chairperson
Team Leader, HSE Technical Support


SAMIYA ALSHIBLI
Team Lead QHSSE Management System


ALYA AL KAABI
Analyst, Business Continuity


NASER BADER AL-HEED
Senior Safety Eng.


MUHAMMED AL BUTI
Senior Engineer HSSE Planning


Ali Abdulla
UAE Country Chair, SVP


SAEED FAISAL AL-SAEED
Process Safety Management Specialist


Machteld Weijers
Process Group Lead, Process Technology and PSM Services


Rayyan Tayeb
Chairperson
HR Supervisor

ZAINAB AL KHAJA
Head Functional Training and Knowledge Management


CHARLOTTE TAIT
Senior Manager External Partnerships


RASHA ALMARZOOQI
Team Leader, Human Capital


Tetsuo Arii
Senior Coordinator


Khalid Al Sheyadi
Talent Development Manager


Ahmed AI Shamrani
HR Policies and Planning Division


MAHA MOHAMMAD AL-TAWARI
Team Leader, Manpower Planning and Recruitment


Sayed Sadiq Kadhem
Operation Instructor, Training and Development


Humaid Al Sawafi
Chairperson
Business Improvement


Zaki Qarni
Global Manufacturing Technical Support Division

MAAN SURAHI
Distillation Process Engineer


Abdulla Al Ameri
Section Leader, Plant Operations


MESFER R. AL GETHAMI
Operational Excellence Division


Kevin McQuillan
Senior Consultant


Morgan Allen
Senior Technical Service Manager, Middle East


Dr. Yasser Boghdadi
Oil Industries Expert, Technical Affairs Department


Fahad Al Ruwaijeh
Plans Coordination Engineer


Nasser Al Shammari
Operational Excellence Engineer


SAAD SALAH AL GHANIM
Senior Engineer Manufacturing Vietnam


Sri Ganesh K.
Chief General Manager


HAMEED MURTADHA
Superintendent OE and Governance


Fadi Mhaini
Vice President, General Manager


Bader Al Khaldi
TL, Optimization and Capital Planning


Claudia Janse Van Rensburg
Sr. Regional Marketing Manager


NAEL MOHAMMAD KHALED AL-BALOUSHI
Chairperson
Team Leader


Hazem Hasan
Senior Engineer (Utilities), Plant Engineering Department


REEM R. AL NUAIMI
Projects Coordinator


Roberto J. Arbulu
Executive Vice President


DR Mazin Gadir
Director

Tofek Bahomed
Engineering Manager - Worley


Dawood Al Farsi
Team Lead Project Control


Bader Al-Harbi
Chairperson
Senior Engineer Corrmetall


Abdulrahman Alrumaidh
Reliability Inspection Engineer


MAAN SURAHI
Superintendent


HAMAD SAEED AL NAQBI
Team Leader, Inspection


JH PARK
Team Leader, Defect Elimination


AHMAD ALBASRI
Sr. Engineer Reliability


ABDULLAH BAGHDADI
Manager, Defect Elimination


ABDULRAHMAN A GHAMDI
Sr Rot. Equip. Engineer, Global Manufacturing Support Department

Udai K. Jayaraman
Manager, IA System Support


Bryan Johnson
Sub-committee Chairman


Said Al Habsi
Team Lead RCM


SAEED BAFAIL
Section Head, Asset Integrity Management


Gene Meyer
Senior Reliability Project Manager, RMTA


MOHAMMAD SALEH AL-TURAIJI
Senior Engineer Manufacturing Vietnam


Ali Al-Azemi
Sr. Engineer, Inspection


AHMED O. AMOUDI
Leader, Asset Management Group


Muneef Al Shameeri
Chairperson
Energy Team Technical Services Department


YOUSEF AL-SAIRAFI
Senior Process Engineer


Mohammed Al Washahi
Head of Energy and Power Optimization


Akram Hamed M. Kamel
Process Technology Manager


Yaqoub Bader Ali
Sr. Engineer Process


YOUSEF BADER AL-RADAAN
Senior Engineer Manufacturing Vietnam


MUHAMMAD FARHATULLAH
Senior Section Head, Energy and PET


Antonio Scatigno
Lead Engineer, Operations Engineering Solutions Department

Ali Rashed Al-Shehhi
Team Leader, Energy Management


Ravi B
Chief General Manager, Technical Department


Nasiru M Tukur
Chairperson
Engineering Consultant P&CSD

Mohanraj Subramanian
Associate Director


MOHAMMAD AL HAMAD
Senior Eng. Technology Support


Dr. Yasser Boghdadi
Oil Industries Expert, Technical Affairs Department


Abdulla Al Oqab
International Sales


NOUF AL-NAJDI
Senior Analyst Merger and Acquisition, JV


Hawra Al Maimani
Sr. Specialist Market Intelligence


Eiman Ahmed Mohamed Khalaf Al Hammadi
Strategic Studies and Business Development


Mohamed Fareed AlWahedi
Project Portfolio Management Department Manager


Masao Yamakawa
Manager, Manufacturing and Technology


HARBEYAH AL ENEZI
Chairperson
Process Engineer - KNPC


Jamillah Al-Mutairi
Team Leader, Process Engineer - KNPC


Anood Ibrahim Taher
Manager, Engineering R&D – ADNOC


ABDULRAHMAN A BUKHARI
FCC Complex Process Engineer - SAMREF


DR. YOUSEF E AL-SHAMLAN
Professor


FATEN TAQI
Senior Process Engineer


ABDULRAHMAN O. HUSSIEN
Senior Process Engineer


Talal Al-Rawahi
Head of Process Engineering Services - OQ


DHEYA AL-SHAKHOURI
Principal Account Manager


Alok Srivastava
Technical Sales Manager


Dr. Dawoud Bahzad
Division Director, Science and Technology


Nimit Shah
Director Business Development, MEA


David S. Renolayan
Operations Engineer Specialist

Ahmed Yousif Al Marzooqi
SME
Engineering and Technical, Manager Control and Electrical


Jad Abou Charbine
Technical Services Manager


Takuya Okada
Business Development Manager, Middle East office


Abdulaziz AI Hajji
Operation Engineer


Deniz Keles
Manager, Sales and Technology


Abdulrahim Alturkistani
Commercial Director - SHELL


Abdul Rashid Razali
Technical Service Manager


Ali Mohamed Jaffar
Superintendent Utilities, Offsites and Energy - BAPCO


Bassam Jayed Alshammari
Chairperson
Team Leader Corporate Applications


HAZEM AL-HARBI
Digitalization and Technology Management Manager

HANAN SAEED AAL. ALI
Manager, IT Applications


TURKI AL SARAIHI
IT Manager


HIND AL KINDI
Head of Integrated Management and Innovation


Gururaj Purohit
Technical Sales Leader


Sarah Al Shajyi
Senior Analyst - KPI


Fawaz AlSahan
Senior Engineering Consultant, IIoT Leader and Chairman of Instrumentation Standards

Richard Walter Lucas
Specialist; Digitalization/AI


SHAIMAA AMEEN
Chairperson
Team Leader, Research and Technology


DR. TAMER MOHAMED KHALIL SALEM
Deputy Chairperson
Senior Laboratory Scientist

NASER AL HAMMADI
Manager, Quality Control and Laboratory


JAFFAR AL-ATTAR
Senior Chemist Analytical


AHMAD ALALI
Senior Engineer


ABDULMAJEED AL KATHEERI
Process Operation


KHAMIS AL SULAIMI
Head of Laboratory Services


Abdulmuttaleb Al-Tarakmah
Section Head, Operations


ADNAN AL-SERRI
Senior Chemist


Mardya Ahmad Dashti
Senior Chemist


Ali Mohamed A. Karim
Chairperson
Manager, Oil Processing Department North


Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Deputy Chairperson
Team Leader Operations


ABDULLAH ALYASI
Utilities Complex manager


KHALID AL HOSANI
Senior Engineer, Operation


RAJIB TALUKDER
SME, Hydro processing


MOHAMMED MUTLAQ AL-OTAIBI
Team Leader Manufacturing Vietnam


Mohammad Al-Fraij
Head Section- A, Operations Clean Fuel


Abdullah Al Mutairi
Senior Engineer Manufacturing


Ahmed Najaf
Hydroprocessing Superintendent, OPD-North
