IBDL - Key Persons


Ahmed M. Darwish - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
Dr. Darwish received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Cairo University, in 1981 & 1984 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1988. He received the Egyptian National Engineering Award for the year 1999. Dr. Darwish was selected by Singapore to receive the Middle East Eminent Persons Award (MEEP)-2007.

Allen Kunkel

Job Titles:
  • Associate VP for Economic Development at Missouri State University Associate Vice President for Economic Development and Director of the Jordan Valley Innovation Center at Missouri State University

Cecile Kyung-Ah Cho

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Dr. Adel Sadek

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer
  • Member of the Board
Dr. Adel Sadek is IBDL Chief Business Officer and one of the founding partners of the company as well. Dr. Adel is also the Chief Executive Officer MERL for Training & Development, and one of the prominent experts in managerial development and training in the Middle East and North Africa.

Dr. Alaa Garad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Alaa is a highly skilled academic and practitioner with extensive experience in management, organisational learning, and Strategic Quality Management. As a senior management consultant and assessor

Glenn Pace

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Instructor for the Management Development Institute
Glenn is an instructor for the Management Development Institute, and instructs academic classes for the College of Business at Missouri State University, the largest College of Business in the state of Missouri. Having been associated with the University since 1977

John Kaliski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Professor
John Kaliski is currently a Professor of Management in the College of Business at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota teaching Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship courses.

Khalid Bin Salim Al Saeedi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Secretary General of the State Council hailed the interest shown by His Majesty for the Shura march in the Sultanate which moves with steady strides to contribute to the progress of the Sultanate in parallel with the comprehensive development efforts within the framework of the state of institutions and law at which the Council of Oman (which comprises the State Council and Majlis Al Shura) is one of its main components.

Phil Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of St. Thomas
Phil Anderson is a Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of St. Thomas, where he taught strategic planning and organizational behavior in both the undergraduate and MBA programs

Rayanna Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Management Development Institute the Director of the Management Development Institute and the Small Business & Technology Development Center Located at Missouri State University

Sherif Dallawar

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Strategic Management at the Arab Academy of Alexandria

Sherif Delawar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Sherif Dallawar is a professor of strategic management at the Arab Academy of Alexandria, a former economist at the United Nations and a regular columnist at Al-Ahram

Sherif Kamel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Professor of Management at the American University
Kamel is professor of management at The American University in Cairo. Before joining AUC, he served as director of the Regional IT Institute and managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center

Sulaiman Al-jassim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Prior to his appointment as Vice President of Zayed University in 2006, Dr. Sulaiman Al Jassim held several senior positions in fields such as Education, Politics and Culture, besides economic and financial responsibilities as Chairman of the UAE Cooperative Consumer Society

Tim Scott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Professor Emeritus of Management
Tim Scott is a Professor Emeritus of Management in the College of Business at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota