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Session – Advancing E2E agile resiliency in supply chains
David Demers, Distinguished Fellow, Global Supply Chain Institute, Haslam College, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Prof. Thomas J. Goldsby, James A. Haslam, II Chair of Logistics, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Sue Donoghue, CEO Arab Cluster, DHL Global Forwarding, (Bahrain, Kuwait & Saudi Arabia)
Fabio Weiss, VP, Head of Airfreight Middle East & Africa, DHL Global Forwarding MEA
Fabio Weiss returned to DHL Global Forwarding as the Head of Airfreight for Middle East and Africa in 2019. He joined DHL in 1999 and held various roles within the airfreight business before leaving in 2012. He spent over seven years with an Asia based Logistics Company where his last held position was country manager of Thailand. Fabio has more than 20 years of experience in the freight forwarding and logistics industry. He is a Swiss national and has lived in several countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, since leaving Switzerland in 2004.
Sue Donoghue is a seasoned logistics professional, having accumulated more than twenty five years of experience in the industry. She started her career in 2006 as a receptionist for a project forwarder working her way up to a Senior Project Manager, managing multiple projects. She joined the DHL family in 2006, first as Head of Industrial Projects in London and in 2012, became Global Business Process Manager for the organization, taking on the role of Global Head of Operations in 2016. In 2018, she took the opportunity to move to Saudi Arabia where she was Project Director and then in 2020, became Managing Director for DHL Global Forwarding in the Kingdom. Most recently, Sue has taken on the additional responsibility of CEO Arabian Cluster covering Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for DHL Global Forwarding.
Bassel is a Transport & Logistics professional with over 16 years in the industry and 22 years overall experience. He has worked in several countries in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. He currently works for CEVA Logistics as Managing Director for the Levant region, in charge of six countries. Bassel focuses on driving growth through the development and delivery of sustainable supply chain solutions for customers across different sectors.
Bassel has an MBA degree from INSEAD France, and a Bachelor of Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut. He is married and father of two daughters.
The chemical industry in the past has invested more into global and leaner supply chains to reduce costs while maintaining efficiencies. However, the pandemic proved to be an eye-opener to expose the fragility and risks associated, pushing companies to rethink the long-term viability of supply chains. During this crisis-stricken period, the shift towards more local and regionalized supply chains, and technology integration seems to be gaining momentum in the GCC.
The inaugural panel discussion would focus on the below key subjects:
– A lookback at the past – What are the important supply chains learnings and opportunities?
– How are localized supply chains in the GCC improving accessibility, reliability and resiliency?
– Capturing the digital opportunity – Future plan and outlook for GCC chemical supply chains
– Circular supply chains – A radical change for the GCC chemical industry?
– Bracing yourself for future disruptions – The pressing need for building a diversified supply chain
Moderator:
Aslam Moola, Managing Director, Vopak ME
Panellists:
– Hosam Al-Zamil, Vice President Global Supply Chain, SABIC
– Ahmed Abdulla Al-Salahi, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Qatar Chemical Company Ltd. (Q-Chem)
– Digital Process Mining and Digital Twins – A game changer for SC
Juergen Schulz, VP Consulting, Siemens
– Smart Control tower – Delivering real-time insight
Arun Samuga, CTO, Elemica
– IIoT – Revolutionizing supply chain intelligence with data
Mehtab Gilani, Associate Partner -Chemical & Petroleum, IBM
– Blockchain – Transforming supply chain networks
Daniel Wilson, Director Strategy & Operations, TradeLens
Following the damage wrought by COVID-19, companies are focused on enhancing their supply chains’ agility and resiliency. They are now realizing the importance of improving their supply chains’ sustainability as well their partners’, as this will deliver multiple benefits for both, business and environment. In addition, investors and many stakeholders are now requesting full disclosure of company’s ESG performance.
This masterclass will answer some critical questions:
– How do you design and implement a green supply chain?
– What are the cost benefits offered by improving environmental performance?
– Adoption of circular business models – How is this enhancing reputation and customer experience?
– Sustainable investing – How is it changing global supply chains?
– How can investors play an important role in guiding corporates on their ESG strategy?
Moderator:
Arun Bruce, Partner and Managing Director, BCG
Panellist:
Bassel El Dabbagh, Managing Director – Levant, Egypt & Saudi Arabia, CEVA Logistics
Aslam Moola joined Vopak in 2017 after an earlier stint with the company in 2004 and 2005. He leads the Middle East organization for Vopak and is responsible for growth in the region. Aslam has spent most of his past 27 years in the petrochemical industry, and has had the opportunity to lead the development of major cracker projects and chemical businesses in the USA, the Middle East and South Africa.
Aslam holds a post graduate Organic Chemistry degree from the University of Durban-Westville. He is proudly a South African national, married with 2 children. Aslam has been living in the UAE since 2001.
Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun has served as the 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 Research and Development Center in Saudi Arabia. He has since held senior executive positions at several prominent regional agencies, including the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), Al-Sharq Plastic Industries Co., and PetroBaas for Industrial Investment Co.
In 2020, he served as the B20 Sherpa, Saudi Arabia responsible for operational management of the B20 Secretariat, content preparation, delivery and advocacy of policy recommendations.
Dr. Al-Sadoun has been a member of the Steering Committee of the International Council of Chemical Associations since 2012. He also served on the Board of Trustees of the Riyadh Economic Forum and the Arabian Society for Human Resources Management.
Dr. Al-Sadoun is the author of two books narrating the evolutionary journey of the chemical industry in the Arabian Gulf region – ‘Molecules, Mind and Matter: How the Arabian Gulf Became a Global Petrochemical Hub’ (published in English language) and ‘A Voyage to Leadership: How the Arabian Gulf Became a Global Petrochemical Hub’ (published in Arabic language).
He holds a PhD in Industrial Chemistry from King’s College, University of London, United Kingdom, and has completed the General Management Program (GMP3) of Harvard Business School (HBS), Harvard University, USA.
Professor Thomas J. Goldsby is the James A. Haslam, II Chair of Logistics at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Evansville, M.B.A. from the University of Kentucky, and Ph.D. in Marketing and Logistics from Michigan State University.
Dr. Goldsby is immediate-past Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Logistics and former Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Journal. He serves as Co-Faculty Director for the Global Supply Chain Institute at the Haslam College. His research interests include logistics strategy, supply chain integration, and the theory and practice of lean and agile supply chain strategies. He has published more than 90 articles in academic and professional journals, co-authored five books, and serves as a frequent speaker at academic conferences, executive education seminars, and professional meetings.
Mehtab is bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. He is an experienced multi-skilled in Digital Asset, Internet of Things (IoT), Supply chain management, Engineering Information/Data management, Enterprise Asset management and Program Management professional with over 23 years’ experience. He is possessing extensive experience in the oil & gas sectors with a unique blend of process, people and technical skills by working on different projects with companies like Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Qatar Petroleum and ADNOC group.
He has helped clients in drafting and delivering on their innovation agenda with focus on Cloud, Advanced Analytic, Industry 4.0 and Mobility. He has sound experience of capital projects management in Oil & gas sector and drafting implementable strategies in moving organizations/functions from Document centric to data centric.
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Retail
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With experience more than 32 years in Petrochemical and Plastic Polymers Industry, Hamad AlTerkait , has been working in this sector since 1979 starting until 2012 .
Effective 2019 was nominated as Chairman of Board / Petrochemical Industry Co. / Kuwait
During his career he was handling Fertilizers, Chlorine Alkali and ended with Polymers and Chemical experience.. He enjoyed a reputable relationship and communications within the industry. That gave him the power to become one of the active key of the founding members of the Gulf Petrochemical and Chemicals Association (GPCA) and act as the Vice Chairman for six consecutive years since its inception. Hamad also headed the Supply Chain Committee of GPCA.
During his career, he was recognized three times among (most influential persons in the chemicals Sector in Gulf) for the two consecutive years. He was voted as No. 13 in the year 2006 and No. 11 in the year 2007 by ICIS.
In the year 2010, in recognition of his professional contribution to the industrial field, Mr. Al Terkait was named as the Middle East’s 2nd most influential ‘Petro Top Ten Decision Makers’ by the Petrochemicals Middle East (PME) monthly magazine.
Born in Kuwait 1957 and graduated from Kuwait University with a B.S. in Business Management and Marketing in 1979, Hamad has a total 28 years of professional experience mainly in petrochemical industry.
Arun Samuga is Chief Technology Officer of Elemica a global SaaS-based Supply Chain Network software solution. He joined Elemica in 2009 through a merger with Rubber Network. Promoted to CTO in 2018, Arun leads Elemica’s global development organization and is responsible for the continued development of new software products and solutions.
Arun has more than 20 years of relevant global industry experience in the Software and IT Services market. Prior to Elemica, Arun worked for RubberNetwork as the Director of Supply Chain Implementation and as a Supply Chain Project Manager. He was also a Senior Integration Consultant and Integration Technical Lead.
Arun is a member of the Forbes Tech Council and Supply Chain Insights Network of Networks. He has been awarded a Provider Pros to Know award several times from Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. He also has achieved 3 US patents for messaging technologies over the Digital Supply Network. He frequently writes articles for industry and trade journals. Arun is an MBA graduate from Georgia State University with a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Dave Demers is a supply chain pioneer in the design and implementation of E2E agile resiliency in supply chain designs. His Performance Diamond financial analytics benchmarking platform, E2E PICO workflow design tools, innovation methodologies, and team building knowledge-transfer skills have been deployed across the globe by industry leaders spanning retail, petrochemical, technology, telecommunications, industrial machinery, life sciences, medical devices, food processing, supply chain services as well as the military branches. Dave has gained diverse cultural and geographic knowledge on global supply chain design and innovation strategy deployment across the Americas, Middle East, Southeast Asia, China and European countries. His 46 years in the field of supply chain innovation offer a critical experiential perspective that can inspire enterprise teams to tackle the complexity that comes with growing and protecting value creation advantage in and out of periods of supply chain disruption.
Dave serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Global Supply Chain Institute, Haslam College, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also serves as the CEO of Avicon, Inc., a supply chain applied learning and team development practice. He is a co-author of a groundbreaking research effort and white paper called Advancing E2E Agile Resiliency in Supply Chains – A proactive approach to creating value during global supply chain disruptions. The research and publication work were sponsored by the University of Tennessee’s Global Supply Chain Institute and Avicon, Inc. (January 2020).
Dave is also Co-Founder of Healthy Hearts for Life, a non-profit focused on cardiovascular disease patients and their successful adoption of new behavioral modification and long-term adherence to critical lifestyle changes. He and his wife Karen also lead in the Marriage Ministry for couples in the New England area. They live in New Hampshire.
Dave holds an MBA in Business Logistics from Pennsylvania State University and a BS in Business Logistics from Northeastern University.
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