SCLGME - Key Persons
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President, Executive Committee - SCLG Kuwait
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- Founder and CEO - GSP for Supply Chain Solutions
Ahmed has extensive years of experience in business and supply chain end to end across multinational companies within North Africa and the Middle east. What makes him unique is not the theories but the practical experience that has been gained with multiple companies in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab emirates.
He is a premium online instructor with more than 4000 online students all over the globe. He runs one of the top business podcasts in Apple by interviewing CEOs and Executives all over the globe to uncover their great experiences in his community. He got recognized as one of the top rising influencers on LinkedIn 2021 by his content creation that inspired 7 M people in one year.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Managing Director, Blue Yonder Middle East & Chairman, Innova Holding.
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- General Manager, Swisslog Middle East
A senior business executive and leader with demonstrated strategic growth across extended territories of Australasia, South East Asia and the Middle East.
Has created strategies and implemented the infrastructures across various territories and new regions while working with both local and multi-national organizations.
Experienced with the complexities of developing and managing multi-cultural teams. Engages individual involvement and leads from the front with an open, motivational style that encourages teams to accept and manage responsibility.
A tenure of 30 years across sales, marketing, engineering and project management with 15 years in general management. Has further extended his experience by developing and managing an Interiors design and fit-out business and has now founded Intralogistic Solution, providing design, consulting and equipment solutions to all industry sectors.
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- Managing Director, DHL, Namibia
Having lived and worked in the Middle East for the last 20 years Dirk has built a tremendous amount of experience in the Supply Chain and Healthcare Industry. Areas of accomplishment include managing a diverse sales team spread over a large geographic location, managing the commercial and operational aspects of the supply chain, providing client focused solutions and working with a variety of systems that provide end to end visibility for clients, suppliers and other stake holders. In addition, developing greenfield operations and entering new markets with new products has allowed Dirk to gain valuable insight to what MNC's need to manage to in terms of the challenges.
The geographic area covered was not just limited to the Middle East but included the co ntinent of Africa as well as Russia and the CIS countries. Having worked for leading multinationals that are at the top of their industry has given Dirk an overall view of what clients, suppliers and providers look for when wanting to operate in EEMEA Regi on (East Europe, Middle East and Africa).
With sound leadership skills Dirk has built a variety of commercial and operational teams that have formed the foundation for ongoing success in the geographic area that he is accountable for. As a founding member of the SCLG it clearly shows that with commitment and dedication the SCLG has come a long way in supporting and helping its members.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- and Founder, MRM Ltd / Ireland
- Management Consultant, Trainer and Business Coach
Dr. Derm ot Carey is an experienced management consultant, trainer and business coach. He is a Doctor of Business Administration and part of his research focused on the implementation and application of Integrated Supply Chain Management Processes, Systems and Str uctures in a complex business environment. He formed MRM Ltd in 1990 in Ireland dedicated to Change Management, Business Process Re - Engineering with a specialist interest in Procurement & Supply Chain Management. His career spans 47 years, he has held a number of senior management positions in both the private and public sectors. In twenty two years of consultancy he has successfully completed many major assignments in a variety of industries at home and overseas.
He holds a number of strategic and advisory roles for private and public sector organisations. He is a regular speaker at conferences internationally. He is a visiting lecturer on Masters Programmes for colleges in Ireland the UK and Europe including prof essional bodies such as: CILT, IIPMM and SCLG.
Dr. Carey's experience includes such sectors as Healthcare, Telecommunications, Software Development, FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace, Construction Industry Federation, Aircraft Maintenance, Airlines, Defen ce, Financial Services, Computer Manufacturing, Education, Clothing, Confectionery, Electronics, Engineering, Government Departments, Logistics, Mail Order, Oil & Gas Exploration & Drilling, Print, Railways, Retail, Steel Manufacturing, Software Supplies, and Ship Building. This experience was gained in Ireland, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Malaysia, and the USA.
He is a DBA graduate from The Nottingham Trent University. Earlier research included an MPhil at Strathclyde University and an MSc at the Un iversity of Ulster. He was a founder member of the North/South Public Procurement Initiative. He has a number of publications and is co - author of a Premier Reference book published in January 2012 "Supply Chain Innovation for Competing in Highly Dynamic M arkets".
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Managing Director of CVI NETWORK SERVICES
- Partner, CVI Group
Dr. Ernst SCHMIED is the Managing Director of CVI NETWORK SERVICES, based in Salzburg/Austria with a global reach into the EUROPEAN UNION, RUSSIA/CIS, CHINA, USA and INDIA. This network is capable to configure solutions and value along horizontals & vertic als from Macro - Logistics down to Micro - Logistics until Logistics Service Providers.
Before of this, as since 1975 as an EARLY BIRD in Supply Chain and Logistics, he held top positions in all 3 sectors like Logistics Companies, Industries and Logistics De sign and Planning. He was the head of the start up's from scratch of SCHENKER LOGISTICS and TNT (now CEVA) LOGISTICS, VOEST ALPINE INDUSTRIES Group and others.
Dr. Ernst SCHMIED was also for more than 1 decade the executive VP and Treasurer for the Professional Soccer Team in Salzburg, winning 3 times the Austrian Championship, making the UEFA CUF final against Inter Milano and playing in the Main Championship Competition against clubs like AC MILAN and AJAX Amsterdam.
He is associated with a number of assoc iations like the www .cscmp.org , www.bvl.de, www.sgkv.d e . In Dubai/UAE he is a member of the Regional Development Committee and In ternational Advisor for Austria for the Supply Chain and Logistics Group (SCLG).
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- Co - Founder and Board Director of Nulogy Corporation
- Co - Founder, Board Director, Nulogy Corporation Emeritus Prof. & Internship Coordinator, Ryerson University / Canada
Dr. K. Donald Tham is Co - founder and Board Director of Nulogy Corporation, Toronto, Canada. He is a Professor and Internship Coordinator at Ryerson University, Toronto, for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. While working in industries and through evening studies, he ea rned his Canadian degrees - B.Tech. (Industrial Eng., Comp.Sc.), Ryerson , Toronto; M.A.Sc. (Management Science), University of Waterloo; Ph.D. (1999 - Information Systems - AI), University of Toronto. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Canada; Seni or Industrial Engineer of IIE, USA. His industry work and teaching experiences over the last 3 decades has included teaching undergrad and graduate courses in Canada, China and Europe. His industry experiences include NOCIL (India), Nabisco, IBM, National Research Council of Canada, Phillips Cable, Canada Post, Molson Companies, Toyota (Japan), Bombardier, BHP (Australia), K - Line , Toronto Star, Loblaw Companies, Kraft, Mars. His research and work experiences led to the initial AI based software engine for the supply chain software solutions of Nulogy. Nulogy's SaaS based software solutions have been deployed across Canada, USA, Australia and EU. He has been an invited and contributing speaker and author for international conferences and executive seminars. He serves as Education Chair for CSCMP, and is Advisor to SCLG, Supply Chain & Logistics Group.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Group Supply Chain Manager, Easa Saleh Al Gurg . United Arab Emirates
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chief Commercial Officer, AD Ports Logistics
General Manager with expertise in Integrated Supply Chain and Commercial Management. With over 20 years of international management experience, I have a proven track record for driving transformational change and implementing industry best practice. Through a disciplined approach to integrated business management, I help drive sustainable company growth on both the top and bottom line. I influence company culture, deliver excellence in execution through a robust project management approach coupled with results-driven operational and financial planning. Beyond my technical proficiencies, my passion is developing people and building high-performance teams guided by a compelling philosophy that having great people in your business is THE true competitive advantage.
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- International Trade Consultant
Kacem Nasri is a passionate Supply Chain and International Trade Professional. Kacem has been working on some incredible projects in the forwarding business, e-commerce B2B, retail, fashion, multimedia, and FMCG. Kacem is the Managing Director of Falkon North Africa for almost a decade . He also recently started consulting for the UN and some other organizations…
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- President, Executive Committee - SCLG / Kenya
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- CEO
- Member of the Executive Committee
- CEO ( Indian Sub - Continent, Middle East & Africa ), Member.International Executive Board, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
Madhav Kurup is the CEO,MENA at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, a global player in providing quality and customer-oriented logistics services. With more than 20 years of experience, Kurup has worked for organizations including RHS Group, Schlumberger Integrated Project Management and Aspinwall and Co Ltd. before joining Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in 2008. Kurup holds a postgraduate degree in finance from the University of Kerala.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Chief Executive Officer, PAC Districentre Pte Ltd, Singapore
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Director Supply Chain & Logistics, Red Sea Global, KSA
I am a senior level executive with a 25 year track record of achieving superior results in supply chains and logistics.
Well experienced across the Middle East and Australasian geographies, I am a key driver in developing commercial strategy, high performing teams, and excellence in business capability, superior financial results, and world class facilities within my organisations.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Kanoo Group
Mishal Kanoo serves as the Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest, independent and longest running family owned groups of companies in the Gulf region. He is also one of the most iconic business figures in the Middle East, featured on various magazines and listed in ‘Top 100 Powerful Arabs 2013', ‘The 15 Wealthiest Arab Businessmen in the World 2012', among others.
Mishal Kanoo is a frequent speaker at conferences and has a reputation of a futurist and strategist with a strong track record in forecasting economic developments in the Middle East. Some of his speaking engagements include Forbes's Middle East Forum in Qatar, World Summit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, The International Herald Tribune's CEO Round-table in Malaysia, and other related business and social affairs in Europe, US, and so on.
Mishal Kanoo adheres to family values and ideals in pursuit for quality and excellence which therefore greatly influenced his corporate policies and goals for The Kanoo Group as a reputable company. It is a generation of success, growth and stability. Over the years, Kanoo family has always been associated with the progress and development of the entire region combined with a sense of philanthropy.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Business Development Director, ASP SHIPS GROUP
30 years experience in the Shipping, Transport & Logistics industry with assignments worldwide.
I have held senior positions in the maritime, aviation & logistics sectors including Board level responsibility for various businesses in Asia. This has included start-ups in difficult environments and developing companies into market leaders.
Focus throughout my career has been on developing new products, growing businesses and implementing value-added services to win and retain clients.
Currently Director Sales & Marketing for the Wallem Group in Hong Kong - a maritime services company offering ship management, crewing, technical services, ship agency, marine procurement & commercial vessel management via 47 offices in 19 countries.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Head Procurement and Logistics, Phoenix Contact Middle East
Nilay Gosavi is a practicing supply chain professional with over 2 decades of operational and strategic supply chain experience in India and UAE. He has a Masters in Logistics from an AustralianUniversity and a Bachelor in Engineering from India.
He has exposure across a variety of industries like oil and gas services, automobiles, spares, electronic, electrical, retail etc. His current role is leading the supply chain for Phoenix Contact, a global manufacturer of electrical and electronic products.
He is widely experienced in various aspects of supply chain, specifically, procurement, supplier development, logistics, warehousing, inventory, S&OP, Forecasting.
He believes that organizations are all about people and their attitude and is passionate about engaging with spirited individuals to work closely with their organizational supply chain.
His work focuses on improving supply chains, training supply chain professionals, frame policies and procedures, lend services to training and development institutes with the objective to improve operational efficiency. In his spare time, he works on creating beautiful homes for select clients
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- Executive Director at Temptation International LLC / Executive Director at Temptation International LLC
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- General Manager at Steinweg Sharaf FZCO / General Manager at Steinweg Sharaf FZCO
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- Market Acceleration Specialist / Angel Investor / Founder - MarketMate / En.
- Market Acceleration Specialist / Angel Investor / Founder - MarketMate / Enabler ONE
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- Group Managing Director, Rais Hassan Sadi Group
Saadi Abdul Rahim Hassan Al Rais one of the most respected individuals in the UAE shipping industry. He has impeccable credentials as an industry leader gained through guiding RHS through a series of major expansions in the past 30 years. With branch offices in the GCC, the Subcontinent and East Africa, Rais Hassan Saadi Group's core activities are shipping, transportation and logistics, in addition to interests in insurance and travel services.
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- Founder
- Group Chairman
- Member of the Executive Committee
Shashi Shekhar is Group Chairman and Founder, Supply Chain and Logistics Group (SCLG). He is Chairman and Managing Partner, innovaXL. Shashi holds Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Masters of Technology in Industrial Engineering.
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- President & RoundTable Lead, Digital
- Senior Technology Director, Synechron Technologies
Suhail brings in global Financial Services and Technology background along with proven business acumen. He has spearheaded technology initiatives in advanced areas like High-Frequency Algorithmic Trading, Predictive Analytics and Automated Settlements for major financial players in UK and USA.
In his latest endeavour, Suhail has set up the Middle East business for a global financial services technology company - from zero to multi-million dollars in annual revenue.
Suhail has a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from a premier Indian Institute along with specialized courses from NYU and MIT. He is also a technology advisor and mentor with three FinTech startups.
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- Founder, Courageous Minds
Waqi Munim is passionate about creating value for his clients and embedding it in the core of the companies' integrated choices for a competitive advantage. An Ex-Procter & Gamble leader with a proven track record of growing local, regional, and global businesses and organizations (+20 years of delivering the P&L) with a breadth of experience (30+ years) spanning across Asia, North America, Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and Middle- East and Africa, Waqi has served in country, regional, and global CFO roles. After working for 27 years, mostly in P&G and a short stint in ProsiebenSat1, he established Courageous Minds in 2017, an advisory for value creation for SMEs in the Middle East.
In the last 5-years, he has served as an 'Advisory' for the Chairman, CEO, and Board of mid and large-size GCC companies; in establishing strong governance, leading mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, special projects on streamlining and institutionalizing processes and systems and in identifying value creation opportunities through objective assessments, thinking possibilities, and executing creative solutions.
Waqi has written three books: Story of Courage, The Rhythms of Life, and Inner Conversations, and is an accomplished business storyteller. He believes in the power of storytelling and its role in creating a competitive advantage for businesses.