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 A. 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

