DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN SHOW

Anis Tabka, SVP Procurement & Contracts in Expo2020 Dubai, is managing all the Sourcing requirements and Contract Management of the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. The unique Mega Event with the theme “Connecting Minds and Creating the Future” will be hosting 191 participating countries and 25 million visitors

The spend under management varies from large construction projects and Fitout of the Thematic Districts and international pavilions to world smartest Technologies (Robotics & Automation, sustainability, 5G, smart driving, etc.), Mega Entertainment events and exhibitions, Marketing, F&B outlets, manpower, etc.

Prior to Expo2020, Anis used to be the CPO of UAE 2nd Telecommunication Service Provider EITC (du and Virgin Mobile UAE) where he founded the Supply chain function from scratch. He also led major Digital transformation of EITC Supply chain and implemented Robotics.

Before moving to the Middle East, Anis spent a large portion of his career in the USA and Germany working with Fortune 500 companies Siemens and AT&T.

Anis holds an MBA in International Finance from University of Central Florida USA and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Management from the City University of New York.

With over 18 years of end-to-end Supply Chain experience, Walaa Maher has led diverse workstreams with two of the top Fortune 500 blue-chip companies and is now leading 1,200 employees in the largest Ceramics Industry group in the world, RAK Ceramics. Since 2008, he has reached over 18,000 people in his role as a regular speaker and consultant for Supply Chain design and trends within the Middle East.

Anna Konoplianikova is the Head of Procurement at Chalhoub Group. Chalhoub Group is a 70-year old company operating in luxury retail and distribution in the Middle East. Anna has 18+ years of procurement and finance experience. Before Chalhoub, Anna was a part of and subsequently led procurement teams in the Coca-Cola Hellenic and Amazon. She is a London School of Economics alumni with MCIPS and Fellow Chartered Accountant qualifications.

Anna is passionate about elevating procurement beyond operations, driving procurement automation and data analytics to deliver 10x + ROI, working in a cross-functional and international environment, growing relationships, and building trust with stakeholders.

Presently a specialist in Food and Beverage Supply Chain Management and Procurement, Kunal heads the Global Supply Chain for Bateel Group (based out of Dubai) that has operations in over 11 countries from US to Middle East to South East Asia.

He has been instrumental in opening and managing over 200 F&B outlets during his F&B Supply Chain tenure. Major brand names include Bateel café’s and boutiques, Godiva Café’s , Tim Hortons, Coldstone Creamery and Sbarro Pizza.

Awarded as ‘Emerging Leader in Supply Chain Management – Middle East’ by Institute of Supply Chain Management, ISCM in Dec, 2018.

Travel and food continue to be his passion that gets him going every morning.

Piyush Chowhan is a digital evangelist with a passion for transforming businesses with the use of technology. With over two decades of experience working with global consumer and retail companies, he has an excellent track record of delivering results and creating value across organizations. His vision is creating innovation-focused digital strategies to maximize today’s opportunities and prepare organizations for future disruptions. His passion for working with startups and innovation-led companies has given him the edge to create digital assets for organizations with the use of the latest technologies like Analytics, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence. He has been a widely recognized leader in digital transformation and has been a much-wanted speaker at over 100 global events. He is an avid writer and his thought leadership is published in multiple magazines and portals.

Mohamed Habib is the Vice President of Supply Management at Tabreed. In his current role, Habib leads Tabreed’s Supply Management function covering Sourcing, Contracts Administration, Material Management, and Insurance. Habib also serves as the Member of the Board of Directors for Tabreed Operations and Maintenance Company (TOMCO), CoolTech Water Services and Cooltech Water Treatment. His prior experience includes time spent in supply chain management and strategy roles at a number of organizations including Dubai Holding, Emirates Steel, The Executive Council of Dubai, and Emirates Airlines.

Habib holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Information Technology from the University of Hartford, USA, as well as an MBA from Coventry University in the UK. He is also an alumni of Mohammed Bin Rashed Center for Leadership Development, Dubai.

Mohamed Essam Abdel Hady is currently Head of Logistics for Al Rashideen Group based in Dubai, UAE, which imports & distributes tobacco & food products. He has over 15 years of experience in accounting, management consulting, business development, and E2E supply chain management & optimization in companies like ADP, Heineken, PepsiCo, & Egypt Foods.

Mohamed holds an M.B.A. degree from the American University in Cairo with a specialization in management and operations research, and is a graduate of York University in Toronto with a double major in Economics & Computer Science, and has experience with analytics tools and programming. He is also an avid reader of management science, as well as being a fintech enthusiast.

Ed has been known to disrupt the status quo and think outside the boxthat improves engineering, operations and security. He is a veteran in cyber security, risk and infrastructure with a proven track record of building and maintaining lean efficient teams. Mostrecently, he developed and implemented an ISO 27001 Risk Management program, and SOC2 Type II and PCI compliancerequirementsfor a software integration company that increased sales opportunities by 30% with fortune 500 companies.

As a CISO and Risk Executive, he specializes in corporate and enterprise security, development of cyber defense programs for cloud-based companies, and business operations protecting company and customer’s sensitive and critical resources. Ed has worked extensively in different industry sectors and his diverse career spans more than 30 years in the military, health care, banking & financial, and software companies. Some of his roles have included:

• VP Engineering & Ops, CISO, Cloud Elements
• Director, Third Party Risk Assessments, CyberGRX
• Executive Director, Technology Risk Management, Kaiser Permanente
• SVP, Security and Risk, Home Loans, Bank of America
• CISO, Raytheon Polar Services, for National Science Foundation

His interest includingstudying theology topics, road cycling, golf, and hunting

David is a Builder, Civil Engineer, Project Management and Development professional who has worked in real estate for more than 30 years. In his career, he has been fortunate to work in a variety of organisations across a range of countries and economies.

Currently, he is the Chief of Project Delivery of the SAR 60b Amaala project in Saudi Arabia, responsible for leading a team of 1000+ construction professionals to execute the Amaala vision.

Amaala is set to become an uber-luxury destination on the northwestern coast of Saudi Arabia and is part of the Kingdom's 2030 vision to support the expansion of Saudi Arabia’s leisure and tourism industry.

Prior to joining Amaala in 2019, David was the Chief Development Officer at VinaCapital, managing the development of their portfolio of hotels and resorts, residential communities and commercial developments throughout Vietnam. Also in Vietnam, he was the Chief Executive Officer of REFICO, a Vietnam-focused Real Estate developer.

David is also a McKinsey & Company Alumni, where he was the Infrastructure Vice President in the Asia Pacific. He joined Mckinsey from Mace Group where he spent more than 10 years in a variety of roles including the Regional Director of Asia Pacific. From 1997 to 2005, David worked for Multiplex Constructions completing several iconic projects in Australia, South East Asia, and the UK.

Prior to 1997, he worked for several public agencies in Australia in the infrastructure and building sectors, while studying for his degree part-time.

Mike Paul is the Managing Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa(EMEA)business operations at InEight, leading marketing and sales efforts while defining and driving the growth of digital solutions that fuel customer success. Directly preceding his current role, Mike was Vice President of Industry Solutions, acting as the liaison between clients in the industry and InEight’s sales and development team in over 20 countries on five continents. Mike has also served as Vice President of Solution Engineering, Director of Industry Solutions, Director of Global Channel, Sales Engineer and Sales Executive, all at InEight. Previous to his time at InEight, Mike held multiple leadership positions throughout the construction industry including managing all the infrastructure work on one of the nation’s first BRAC development projects at Fort Carson Army Base, negotiating large low-income housing projects in Africa, developing global supply chains for U.S. government contract needs and running his own construction company. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona, and an MBA from Averett University in Virginia.

At one time a serial entrepreneur, with an in-depth craving to learn everything, Wassim Haroun has for the last 20 years focused his attention on the civil engineering field and achieved partnership status with CONSER, and then reinvented it into an innovation hub.

Seen by many as an avantgarde thinker with the ability to see the whole picture and quickly zoom in on the smaller issues that are needed to build the whole.

Very pragmatic and always ready to learn things from anyone as he sees value in anyone’s experience.

Wassim Haroun has proved many times his ability to freestyle-brain storm on any matter.

Wassim Haroun has recently committed the CONSER group into the founding of CICCON, which is the new platform that has been created to invest and enable the success of innovations for the engineering and construction industries.

Specialties: Expertise in forging alliances, and an amazing presenter and an unapologetic sales person.

Always respects and enjoys all cultures, and he takes the time to relate to everyone.

Spearheading the expansion of the CONSER group into The African continent, with a number of successful projects in hand.

After more than 10 years of experience in Robotics and AI, first focused on solving problems for Space Robotics, now focused on solving problems for humans, Carlos Crespo is the responsible of the Robotics, Data & AI group of Acciona. A group that was created four years ago and uses robotics & AI to improve the company processes from within. Acciona is a world leading global group that develops and manages sustainable infrastructure solutions, especially renewable energy.

Carlos Crespo is a Telecommunication Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Jon Purizhansky is a New York lawyer with years of international business experience. Jon is dedicated to upholding human rights around the world as the CEO of Joblio, a global technology platform rendering corruption and worker abuse obsolete. With a special focus on helping refugees and migrant labourers, Jon is dismantling unethical hiring practices across the world while setting the global standard for human rights protection.

The winner of the Abrahamic Business Circle’s “Excellence Innovation Award in Human Rights Protection,” Jon has spent years raising awareness about the plight of migrant workers around the world. He recently represented Joblio at the 2021 Investment in Sustainable Development Conference hosted by the CC Forum in the Cote d’Azur.

Before founding Joblio as an innovative tech platform, Jon practiced immigration law in the state of New York and gained deep insights into the lives of vulnerable populations on the move. In addition to law and business, Jon is renowned for his public speaking on the topics of humanitarianism and ethical recruitment. At a time when global migration continues to surge, Jon is proud to stand with the migrants supercharging our modern economy.

Sherief is a Director of Industry Strategy & Innovation at Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU). Sherief is a civil engineer coming from a construction project management background, with 16 years of experience in Enterprise Project Management systems for asset intensive industries across the project lifecycle from ideation, prioritization & selection, capital planning and budgeting, project planning, scheduling & controls, and down to facilities management. During his career, Sherief has program managed EPPM system implementations and integration projects for large enterprises in AEC, Public Sector, and Transportation organizations within the Middle East. In his spare time, he is always spotted on mountains; either climbing or running trails.

Mohammad Shalan is the editor of a book titled “Innovative and Agile Contracting for Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0” that was published by IGI Global in 2021. He is an author, guest speaker and researcher with published books, chapters, articles, and presentations.

Mohammad is a multidiscipline motivated business-technology interpreter. Enthusiastic about Digital Transformation Governance, Industry 4.0 Ecosystems, Innovative Contracting and Smart Resilient Cities.

Since 1995, he has worked out major operational assignments, portfolios, programs, and projects spanning in more than 50 countries with distributed activities, multiple vendors, numerous dependencies, heavy correspondences, and multi-discipline contractors.

Currently Mohammad Shalan is working as the Head of Technology at Aqarat Real Estate Development Company is Saudi Arabia and Volunteering as the Digital Transformation Director for the Saudi Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI).

Adnaan Khokhar is the Operations Manager for the EMEA Region for Scenario. He holds a Masters Degree in Construction Project Management and is a Certified Cost Engineer.

He brings a wealth of experience in the Construction and Engineering Industry, having been involved in Mega/ Major Projects over the last 20 years in the Middle East and Asia Pacific Region.

Spearheading Scenario’s operations in the region, he has seen a major uptake in enterprise wide digital transformation.

Currently Scenario is managing numerous multi billion dollar portfolios and projects across various industry sectors worldwide.

Personal Statement

“Being part of the team involved in implementing Scenario solutions and seeing the transformation of clients and their benefits realised, provides me with great satisfaction knowing that you have had a positive impact on the delivery of the project.”

James is Middle East Director for the SoftwareONE | MTWO Construction Cloud practice.

Previously, he led the ‘ComplyPro’ digital assurance business for Bentley Systems in MEA and APAC. He has extensive experience in high-value transport infrastructure projects such as the Doha and Riyadh Metro, Oman Airports, and Etihad Rail programme.

James's early career was in technical software implementation and training, and over the past 20 years he has leveraged this skillset to success in several consultative sales leadership, presales and project management roles for organisations including Bentley, Capita, Comply Serve, and Expolink.

Mazen Maguid is Middle East Business Developer for the SoftwareONE | MTWO Construction Cloud practice.

reviously, he led the ‘BIM SERVICES’ implementation program for HILTI in MEA. He has extensive experience in high-value Segmental Precast Bridges Construction Projects like Jahra Road Bridges & Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah Causeway in Kuwait, Rod El-Farag Bridge in Egypt.

Mazen's early career was in Business development and training, and over the past 10 years he has leveraged this skillset to success in several consultative sales leadership, presales and project management roles for organisations including HILTI, Arab Contractors .

Eoin leads the Environmental and Waste Team for KEO. He is a Chartered Waste Management Specialist with fifteen years of international experience in environment, waste management and resource efficiency experience in the private and public sectors. Eoin started his career in the public sector, working under EU legislation to support and enforce better environmental practices. Since then, Eoin has had the opportunity to work at the forefront of designing innovative environmental and waste management design solutions, focusing on developing cost-efficient strategies to reduce client costs and streamline environmental operations.

To date, Eoin has worked on 200+ projects across the GCC region and internationally predominantly focusing on improving environmental efficiencies and reducing environmental degradation. From this, he has gained an understanding of the inefficiencies of environmental reporting, and how the cumbersome nature of the process can lead to poor reporting, and subsequently poor environmental site management. This education through experience has supported Eoin and the KEO team in the development of Green Port, an environmental reporting platform to streamline site environmental management on large-scale projects, over multiple languages, in a timely and efficient manner.

An Innovation & Digital Evangelist with over 15 years of experience in digital engineering covering Ecosystems Management leadership, 4.0 Digital Transformation strategies & Project delivery, Business Intelligence, advanced technologies and operational efficiencies. He has extensive experience in leading all phases of large-scale projects, including complex business re-engineering initiatives, industry transforming technology solutions and systems integration projects with multiple clients and technology partners.

Wassim is a global consultant in renovating businesses through innovative solutions, information technology and digital programs to accelerate growth, reduce operating costs and exploit competitive advantages with leading-edge applications, advanced analytics, AI technologies and big data solutions. Wassim is well experienced in Energy innovative solutions, Digital command Centers, PMO, Operating Assets Production and Maintenance systems, Digital Twin, EPC4.0, business Processes automation, digital solutions, disruptive technologies and ecosystems which covers Engineering, Construction, Operation, ERP & Training Services. He has developed the concepts of Digital Maturity levels and 8D digital twin adopted by key industrial players.

Andrew Rippon is the Smart City Director at the Royal Commission for AlUla in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His role is to drive integrated strategies and technologies in support of AlUla’s ambitious cultural tourism, sustainability and economic diversification agenda.

Previously Andrew consulted the European Commission as Governance and Design Authority on the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure and for three years he was principal Consultant on Smart Cities in Dubai. There he wrote important sections of the Smart City strategies of the governments of Dubai and Saudi Arabia, including the Smart City Technology Blueprints in both countries and the Smart District Guidelines in Dubai.

Andrew’s background has always been in digital transformation initiatives since starting work on internet projects in the early 1990s. Later working with internet services for telecoms Vodafone Global, STC, Zain and Etisalat, including collaborating on the early Smart City strategy at the latter in 2014.

Rob joined Asite in June 2021 as Chief Growth Officer, driving our aggressive sales and growth activities with a major focus on UK, Europe, MEA & APAC regions whilst leading strategic corporate development activities globally.

Rob has sat on the senior leadership and executive teams of several multinational businesses and had non-executive director roles covering a diverse range of sectors. He has led major growth initiatives and helped businesses transform under PLC, private, and PE ownership environments. Previously he led RICS’ activities in the AEMEA region and has an intimate grasp of the end-to-end challenges that the built environment sector faces and is therefore passionate about how Asite can help be the solution to many of these challenges.

He lives in Dubai, UAE, is a graduate of Oxford University, still considers himself a competitive sportsman (in mind if not in body!!) and loves drawing parallels between sporting team performance and business team performance.

Saji Khoury is Business Development Manager at Consolidated Contractors Company based in Athens, Greece. He focuses on EPC and PPP projects. He also co-leads the innovation, start-ups, and disruptive technologies initiatives throughout the company.

Saji holds an undergraduate and Master's degree in Civil Engineering. He is currently enrolled in the Executive MBA Global, a joint program between London Business School and Columbia Business School. He also is an Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership Fellow and a member of the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Mani Golparvar is the CTO and co-founder of Reconstruct. Dr. Golparvar is also Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology Entrepreneurship at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research on computer vision and construction management has led to Reconstruct, a Software-as-a-Service company that creates reality models from photos and 360 videos and integrates them with building information modeling (BIM) and project scheduling to visually track progress, analyze productivity, and proactively detect potential delays using predictive analytics. Utilized on 1000s of projects on 5 continents, Reconstruct empowers construction companies to deliver their projects on schedule and on budget.