ALBA - Key Persons


Abdul Rasool Ahmed Abdul Rasool

Job Titles:
  • Director Casthouse & CTS

Abdulla Mohamed

Job Titles:
  • Manager Power & Utilities Maint.

Abdulla Seyadee

Job Titles:
  • Manager PR

Ahmed Abdulqader - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chief Financial Officer
Ahmed Ishaq holds the position of Finance Manager of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) overseeing the divisions of Treasury, Management Reporting, Compliance, Payroll, Credit Management and Account Payable. Prior to his present role, Ahmed was the Senior Internal Auditor and has been with Alba since 2010.

Ahmed Bahar

Job Titles:
  • Manager Operational Excellence

Ahmed Ishaq

Job Titles:
  • Position of Finance Manager of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C

Ahmed Shehabi

Job Titles:
  • Manager Carbon 1 & 2 Ops.

Ali Al - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
As a Bahraini who grew from within Alba, Al Baqali believes that Alba's growth and success depend heavily on the Company's entrenched principles on Safety, Development of Human Capital, Social and Civic Responsibility as well as Community Development. Al Baqali places Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) matters at the top his priorities; his beliefs have translated into Alba establishing c.US$40 million first-of-its-kind Spent Pot Lining Treatment Plant Project, achieving the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Performance Certification, setting-up a Fish Farm at the Calciner & Marine Operations amongst many other initiatives. Al Baqali was recognised as one of the top business leaders in the Forbes Top CEOs in the Middle East 2021-2022, and his leadership skills has placed Alba as one of the top Bahraini companies in the Forbes Top 100 Companies in the Middle East 2021-2022.

Ali Al Ansari

Job Titles:
  • Manager Procurement & Warehousing

Ali Al Baqali - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Appointed as the CEO on 13 February 2020, Al Baqali has been part of the Alba family for more than 2-decades and brings years of thought leadership and honed experience from within the Company. Al Baqali joined Alba as a Purchasing Officer in 1998 then moved further up the ranks to become Manager for Procurement (2010), Chief Financial Officer (2013), Deputy CEO and Chief Supply Chain Officer (2017) and Acting CEO (2019). In his Executive Management roles, Al Baqali has been instrumental in Alba's landmark Line 6 Expansion Project, especially in securing the US$3 billion financing for the Project and formulating the sourcing strategies for key raw materials.

Ali Al Hanan

Job Titles:
  • Acting Manager Financial Accounting and Controlling

Alwaleed AlSenani

Job Titles:
  • Director
Mr. Alwaleed has joined SABIC in 2015 and has an extensive experience in boards and enterprise governance, corporate regulations, compliance, and risk management. He is currently the GM Global Corporate Governance, where he is responsible for enhancing the enterprise Corporate Governance standards, and its effective implementations. In addition, Alwaleed sets on several boards and committees. Before joining SABIC in 2015, Alwaleed had a long career in the Capital Market Authority (CMA) where he served in different leading governance positions, including: Head of Risk Management Department and Head of Corporate Governance Department where played a significant role in enhancing the compliance with the Corporate Governance Regulation. In 2013, Alwaleed had worked as Governance Adviser at the OECD in France (seconded from CMA). He also represented Saudi Arabia in the OECD Corporate Governance Committee, and participated in updating the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (adopted by the G-20). Alwaleed holds Master of Accounting from the University of Melbourne, and Master of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and Bachelor Degree of Accounting from King Saud University, and completed a number of executive education programs at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Wharton Business School, INSEAD and IMD.

Amin Sultan

Job Titles:
  • Chief Power Officer Position
Amin Sultan holds Chief Power Officer position of Alba's 3665 MW ISO Power & Utilities. He was in charge of the construction Potline 6 expansion project for the new 1800 MW Power Station 5 using H-class gas turbine technology and current construction of 680MW block 4 power block with J-class technology. He also in charge of Environment, Social and Governance ESG at ALBA in addition to overseeing ALBA wide property and business interruption all risks insurance. He has been with Alba since 1997.

Boris Santosi

Job Titles:
  • Director Marketing

Bruce Cox

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Non - Executive Director, CEO, COO and CFO
Bruce Cox is an experienced Non-Executive Director, CEO, COO and CFO spanning a career of more than 40 years. He has worked in a broad range of industrial, manufacturing and mining environments. His career has spanned the Steel, Aluminium, Alumina, Bauxite, Diamond, Iron Ore, Platinum, Uranium, and Copper manufacturing, refining, smelting and mining sectors. He has held senior executive positions in BHP for 23 years and Rio Tinto for 16 years. In these roles, he has lived in Australia, Chile, Zimbabwe, USA, UK, and Canada.

Carlos Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Manager Power Station 5 Maint.

Clint McLachlan

Job Titles:
  • Director ESG

Dr. Abdulla Habib - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer
Dr. Abdulla Habib was appointed as Chief Operations Officer on 2nd December 2018, and he has been Director of Reduction Line 6 Start-up since July 2017. Prior to this, he was Director of Reduction Lines and Services since February 2015. He has been with Alba since 1995 when he joined as trainee engineer after completing his B.Sc. in chemical Engineering with first honor class. During the last 26 years, Dr. Abdulla has grown in Alba and held the roles of Superintendent Reduction Line, R&D Manager, Reduction Lines Manager, and Customers Technical Support Manager. He has played a vital role in improving safety performance in Alba Operations. He was in charge of Line-5 recovery in 2017, after a long power outage, as one of the safest and faster recoveries in the world. He contributed significantly in increasing metal production in Alba to 1,548,500 metric tonnes in 2020 by aligning the teams, driving innovative ideas and introducing more disciplined culture among workforce. Dr. Abdulla holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Master's Degree in Aluminium Smelting from University of New South Wales, Australia. He also holds MBA from ESSEC/French Arabian School. Dr. Abdulla is a member of many international committees related to Aluminium Industry like The Material Society (TMS) and has been an advisor to the Engineering College of Bahrain University. During his private time, reading is his favourite hobby.

Ebrahim A. Wahab

Job Titles:
  • Manager Carbon 1 & 2 Maint.

Eline Hilal

Job Titles:
  • Director Investor Relations, Insurance & Corporate Secretary

Enoch Kwok Yee Lok

Job Titles:
  • Manager Sales Asia Pacific

Eskandar Abdulnabi Alsari

Job Titles:
  • Director Power

Fatema Al-Mohri

Job Titles:
  • Manager Sales

Fuad A. Hussain Alasfoor

Job Titles:
  • Director Reduction Lines and Services

Haitham Salman Al-Saegh

Job Titles:
  • Manager Reduction Maint. & Services

Hala Mufeez

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Board Member at Aluminium Bahrain
  • CFO of Bapco Upstream
Mrs. Hala is the CFO of Bapco Upstream, a Bahrain-based NOC responsible for all upstream activities in the Oil and Gas sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. In her current role she is responsible for overseeing the Finance, Supply Chain and Management Accounting function. Mrs. Hala is a strategic leader bringing 27 years of diverse experience to her role and is highly regarded for her rigorous specialisation in all areas of Finance, Audit, Compliance and ability in establishing and developing core functions from the ground up. Mrs. Hala joined Bapco Upstream in 2010, leading the Finance function where her role focused on financial planning as well as analyzing the Company's financial strengths and weaknesses and proposing corrective actions. She is also responsible for advising the CEO, Board of Directors and other stakeholders including the Ministry of Finance and National Economy on financial matters and budgets relating to the Upstream activities. Prior to joining Bapco Upstream, Mrs. Hala was a principal - risk management and compliance officer & MLRO in First Investment Bank where she was responsible for providing an independent risk perspective on investments, developing compliance and AML policies and also managing the internal audit function. Mrs. Hala has also held the position of Senior Manager - risk management and compliance officer at Bahrain Islamic Bank in which her role included overseeing the compliance program for the Bank, managing business continuity and internal quality assurance team for the core banking implementation project. She was also a member of ALCO and the IT steering Committee. Mrs. Hala started her career at Ernst & Young where she was responsible for managing external audits across various industries. Mrs. Hala is Board member at Aluminium Bahrain, which is the largest smelter outside of China. She is also a Board member in Bapco Gas and Bapco Gas Expansion where she is also the Chairperson of the Audit Committee. Mrs. Hala holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Bahrain and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Illinois.

Hamad Al Shaibeh

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administration

Hassan A. Qader

Job Titles:
  • Manager Casthouse Maint. & Services

HE Khalid Al Rumaihi - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Executive Chairman of Amriya Group
HE Khalid Al Rumaihi is Executive Chairman of Amriya Group, prior to which he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat) from September 2019 to April 2023. During his tenure, he oversaw Mumtalakat's transformation and the implementation of its new strategy.

Hisham Alkooheji

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chief Marketing Officer of Aluminium Bahrain
Hisham Alkooheji was appointed as Acting Chief Marketing Officer of Aluminium Bahrain on the 1st of February 2024. In this role, he leads the global marketing and sales function across Alba's offices in Singapore, Switzerland, and the US. Additionally, he oversees the Casthouse Operations, ensuring the safe and high-quality production of +1.62 million metric tonnes of a diverse range of aluminium products annually. In his previous role as Director Marketing Middle East, Africa and Asia, he managed a substantial portfolio exceeding 950,000 metric tonnes per annum, and fostered long-lasting customer relationships. Moreover, he played a pivotal role in shaping the company's sales strategy in 2020, successfully establishing the Singapore Branch office in 2021 and driving the team towards increasing value-added product sales. His responsibilities included expanding the company's global reach and entering new markets such as Japan and Morocco. Earlier, he also held the role of Manager Customer Services & Marketing Operations where he was responsible for Alba's global export logistics and Casthouse production planning sections. Hisham holds a Masters in Business Administration from the College of William & Mary, USA, a Masters in International Business & Finance and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Reading in the UK. His passions include sports and fitness activities and immersing himself in diverse cultural experiences.

Hussain Al-Malali

Job Titles:
  • Manager Casthouse Ops

Hussain Ebrahim Mohammed

Job Titles:
  • Manager Carbon 3 & 4 Maint.

Hussain Faqihi

Job Titles:
  • Manager Customer Technical Support

Jordan Samuel Screen

Job Titles:
  • Commercial and Legal Manager

Khaled Mersal

Job Titles:
  • Manager Power Station 5 Ops

Khalid Ahmed Shareef

Job Titles:
  • Manager Ops

Khalid Al Khalifa

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Founder and Managing Director of Seaspring W.L.L
Shaikh Isa bin Khalid Al Khalifa is the Founder and Managing Director of Seaspring W.L.L., a Bahrain-based international investment consultancy firm with a strategic focus on bringing distinct investment solutions from various sectors including, but not limited to healthcare, biotech, technology, and cybersecurity to the Gulf region. These include arranging growth equity in Biotricity Inc., a leading remote cardiac telemetry company based in Redwood City, California, and My Next Health, a genomic-based AI and quantum platform healthcare company in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to founding Seaspring, Shaikh Isa was a private equity associate with Oasis Capital Bank in Bahrain where he helped raise over US $245M in paid up capital, in addition to establishing a clean, tech focused fund. Prior to this, Shaikh Isa was Assistant Manager of Corporate Banking and Finance at Citibank Bahrain where he was a key member of the team that oversaw the refinancing of Alba's potline 5. Shaikh Isa holds a Master of Science in Global Financial Analysis from Bentley University, Waltham, MA.

Khalid Mohd Turani

Job Titles:
  • Chief Internal Auditor and Risk Officer

Khalil Ebrahim Mohammed

Job Titles:
  • Manager Reduction Line 6

Khalil Ebrahim Suhail

Job Titles:
  • Manager Casthouse 4 Ops.

Mohamed Khalid Juma

Job Titles:
  • Manager SSP

Mohamed Khalil Saeed

Job Titles:
  • Director Safety & Health

Mohammed A. Rahim Zainal

Job Titles:
  • Manager Reduction Line 4

Mohsen Ahmed Shukrallah

Job Titles:
  • Manager Reduction Line 5

Mr. Ahmed Alduriaan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Board Member of HADEED
Mr. Ahmed Alduriaan comes to Alba with a wealth of experience. He has over 33 years of experience in SABIC (the 3rd largest chemicals company in the world focused on chemicals, agri-nutrients and metals). Mr. Alduriaan is heading SABIC's global joint venture portfolio management looking after more than 50 companies across the world and leading discussions with many regional and Foreign partners to improve joint ventures performance and governance. Prior to his current role, Mr. Alduriaan spent over ten years managing the Merger & Acquisitions Execution Department in Sabic. Before this, he held a number of positions including Hadeed Venture Manager. Mr. Alduriaan is currently a board member of HADEED and the Chairman of HADEED board audit Committee. He is also the Vice Chairman of Garmco Board. Mr. Alduriaan hold a Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering.

Mudassir Hassan Siddiqui

Job Titles:
  • Manager Customer Services & Marketing Ops.

Nabeel Al Mutawa

Job Titles:
  • Manager Workshop & Maint. Services

Nabeel Ebrahim Al Jallabi

Job Titles:
  • Manager Process Control & Development

Nezar Hameed Ali

Job Titles:
  • Manager Safety and Health

Omar A. Al-Amoudi

Job Titles:
  • Director
Mr. Omar Al-Amoudi has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) and Masters in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University, USA. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors for PETROKEMYA, Chairman of the Board of Directors for HADEED, Chairman of the Board of Directors for TATWEER BUILDINGS COMPANY (TBC) and Member of the Board of Directors of ALUMINUM BAHRAIN B.S.C. (ALBA). Prior to this, Mr. Omar has been the Executive Vice President, Engineering & Project Management and preceding this he was Executive Vice President, Shared Services. Mr. Omar was also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPECIALTY CHEM, GAS, ARRAZI and he was the Board Member of SHARQ, IBN RUSHD, PETROKEMYA, SADAF, IBN SINA and MARAFIQ. He is also the ex-President of PETROKEMYA and IBN ZAHR.

Omar Syed

Job Titles:
  • Director
Omar joined Mumtalakat as Chief Investment Officer in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in private equity, with a track record of origination, execution, and portfolio management of companies across diverse sectors in the US, Europe, MENA, Turkey, and South Asia including restructuring and turnaround of portfolio companies. Omar received his Master's in Accounting from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Management from McGill University in Canada. He is also a CA and a CFA charter holder.

Rajesh Garg

Job Titles:
  • Manager Carbon 3 & 4 Ops.

Rawdha Salman Alaradi

Job Titles:
  • Manager HR & Training

Redha Hussain Jawadi

Job Titles:
  • Manager Power Ops. & Utilities

Robert Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Director Line 7 Expansion Project

Roselyne Renel

Job Titles:
  • Director
Roselyne Renel joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in February 2020 as Group Chief Credit Officer with direct responsibility for credit risk globally across all businesses of the Group. Before this appointment, she spent 6 years at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) as the Group Chief Credit Officer and also led the establishment of SCB's Enterprise Risk Management. Prior to SCB, Ms Renel spent two and half years at Standard Bank of South Africa as Chief Risk Officer for the Corporate & Investment Banking division, and just over 16 years at Deutsche Bank where she held various senior roles including Chief Credit Officer for Emerging Markets and the Global Markets and Global Banking divisions. She is a seasoned financial services executive with deep domain expertise managing risk across a broad range of asset classes, products and client segments. She is highly skilled in credit, market, liquidity and strategic risks, both in developed and emerging markets, across a wide range of banking and financial services sectors. She is an alumni of University of Columbia, USA, where she completed the Senior Executive Advanced Management Program. She completed the Credit Graduate program delivered by Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JP Morgan) and holds the Advanced Certification in Accounting and Bookkeeping from the London Chamber of Commerce. She is passionate in the issues of women, girls and the underprivileged and is actively involved in championing and raising awareness of these topics.

S. Hussain S. Fadhel

Job Titles:
  • Manager Reduction Lines 1 - 3

Stephanus Grobler

Job Titles:
  • Manager Legal

Syed Afaque Ahmed Hashmi

Job Titles:
  • Manager IT

Taleb Al Ansari

Job Titles:
  • Director Carbon & Calciner

Tim Murray

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • CEO of Cardinal Virtues Consulting
Tim Murray is CEO of Cardinal Virtues Consulting and has over 20 years of executive leadership experience. He holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University as well as a degree in Accounting from Susquehanna University. He is also CPA and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. Tim recently published his first book called "CEO Words of Wisdom (WoWs)". The WoWs deliver practical life lessons to help you survive and thrive in the Post COVID world. Tim spent 12 years with Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) where he was CEO for the 7 last of those years. During his time at Alba he was also Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer and General Manager of Finance. Tim played an instrumental role in the $3 billion Line 6 Expansion Project which was commissioned on-time and significantly under budget. He is considered an expert in Safety Management and played a key role in the transformation of Alba's Safety culture. Tim spent 10 years with ARC Automotive where in his last role he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He played a key role in the building of greenfield manufacturing facilities in both Mexico and China. Tim is an avid reader and also an Adjunct Professor at Susquehanna University teaching classes on the impact of CEO leadership.

Waleed Tamimi

Job Titles:
  • Chief Supply Officer
  • Position of Chief Supply Officer of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C
Waleed Tamimi holds the position of Chief Supply Officer of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) overseeing the departments of Procurement & Warehousing, Strategic Supply & Planning, Engineering, Operational Excellence, Metallurgy and Customer Technical Support. Prior to his present role, Waleed was the Chief Administration Officer and before that was the Director of Administration. Within Alba, he successfully held the position of Senior Manager of Strategic Supply & Planning, charged with controlling the company's procurement requirement of all major raw material and corresponding logistics. Moreover, Waleed was responsible for the management and development of Alba's raw material and freight suppliers' network in addition to managing all trading & selling initiatives for excess procured Alumina and surplus production of Calcined Petroleum Coke. In 2013, Waleed served as Manager - Operational Excellence where he led the operational excellence initiatives alongside the continuous improvement strategy and roadmap. Moreover, Waleed was responsible for the development, establishment and initiation of an Enterprise Continuous Improvement and Cost Cutting Programme (Titan Programme), based on the Lean-Six Sigma methodology. The developed Programme is a company-wide philosophy aimed at improving quality, reducing lead time and bringing in sizable and sustainable cost reduction levels. Prior to his tenure with Alba, he was General Manager of Business Improvement Group at Rezayat Group of Companies in Khobar, Saudi Arabia where he led a strategy building initiative at Rezayat Group.

Yousif Juma Mubarak

Job Titles:
  • Manager Calciner & Marine