Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun Secretary General GPCA Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun has been Secretary General of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) since 2009, following a career of more than three decades in the GCC region’s petrochemical and energy sectors. His career began in 1990, as a Senior Researcher at SABIC ( R&D) Center in Saudi…
Ruth Sharpe Group Editor – Raw Materials Argus Media Ruth is Group Editor, Raw Materials at Argus Media and has been editor of the Argus Ammonia report since 2017, most recently overseeing the report’s expansion into the green ammonia space and daily ammonia pricing. Ruth joined Argus in 2009 and has covered coal, biomass and…
Dr. Mounir Halim CEO AFRIQOM After having spent the first half of his career in R&D and business development roles within the semiconductor business at Sony & Samsung, he joined the fertilizer sector in 2009 as a Sales director at OCP Group where he was a leading driver of the group’s strategy, business development and…
Georgy Eliseev Principal Analyst S&P Global – Commodity Insights Georgy has more than 20 years’ experience in market analysis and strategy. Dubai-based Georgy joined from Uralchem, where he was Head of Market Analytics, having previously worked at United Petrochemical Company, Sibur Fertilizers, Evraz Group and Yukos. He has also worked for a number of investment…
Jose Antonio Alberich Partner Kearney José Alberich is a partner with A.T. Kearney focused on energy and process industries. He has over 30 years of experience working in chemicals, oil and gas, and utilities. José started his career working in R&D and technology in O&G and chemicals in 1990, holding for the next ten years…
Faisal Al-Shahrani Director, AN Strategic Projects, Operations SABIC Agri-Nutrients More than 18 years of robust experience in fertilizer manufacturing business, leading SABIC AN strategic Projects. Leading transformational Projects and Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Transactions. Has collective experience in Plant Operations, Technical, expansion Projects, M&A, Strategy and Transformation projects. Graduated from king Fahad University of petroleum…
Haroon Rahmathulla COO Fertiglobe Haroon Rahmathulla is the Chief Operating Officer of Fertiglobe. Prior to joining Fertiglobe, he served as Managing Director at Barclays in the Chemicals team and headed the European Chemicals Investment Banking team of Jefferies Financial. He has a wide range of experience across commodity and specialty businesses in the chemicals sector,…
Omar Boutahar Senior Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Development Ma’aden Omar has over 16 years of strategy, Business development, M&A, commercial and marketing experience. He has extensive exposure to International and multi-cultural environments including Asia, Latin America, Africa and north America. He joined Ma’aden in 2014 where he supported the marketing strategy elaboration and execution…
Dr. Andrey Norov Industrial Technology Director Samoilov Scientific Research Institute for Fertilizers and Insectofungicides (NIUIF) Dr. Andrey Norov was born on 26 April 1957 in Russia (USSR). Upon graduating from Mendeleev’s University of Chemical Technology in Russia, for over 25 years Dr. Norov had been working at Mineral Fertilizers Plants. Since April 2007 he has…
Tobias Birwe Head of Sales – Fertilizers & Methanol Business Unit Uhde Tobias Birwe is the Sales Director of Operating Unit Fertilizer and Methanol inside ThyssenKrupp Uhde company. He has been working at ThyssenKrupp Uhde since 2003, working on large-scale EPC jobs in the fertilizer industry. He started his career as a process engineer developing…