Youssef Salloum

Goodyear

Human Resources Director Middle East & Africa

Youssef A. Salloum is a respected educator, executive coach and speaker on personal development and leadership. Youssef is the former Human Resources Director Middle East & Africa at Goodyear. His purpose was to develop people and organizations by sharing his knowledge with those that have a hunger and passion to succeed. For over sixteen years, Youssef held several Human Resources leadership roles for a number of leading Fortune 500, Footsie, Bovespa and CAC 40 organizations in a variety of sectors. He is a much in demand keynote speaker and delivers the breakthrough development programs “Leadership Awakening and Art of Leadership”.

Jeff Turner

Facebook

International Director of Learning and Development

Jeff has been working in the Learning and Development arena for the past 20 years. During this time he has worked with Lloyds Bank, Bank of Ireland, AOL, O2 and has been running the EMEA Learning and Development function in Facebook for the past 4 years. Jeff has a Masters Degree in Performance Management from Leicester University and is a qualified coach with the ICF. Jeff who is originally from the UK and now living in Ireland, is married to Helen with a son in university and 2 daughters. In his spare time Jeff enjoys playing golf.

Ravi Singh

Bluefin Consultancy

Founder And General Manager

Ravi Singh was the head of talent relations at The One, a retail company that has five years in a row won the top 10 Great Place to Work award, top employer for women and in 2013 top employer for Millennial. This year the One won the top 5 companies to work for in Asia. Ravi’s main focus in the company was Strategic Planning and Implementation of Business Plans from HR perspective, developing operational and Training structures and talent growth for the business. Other functions included, Policy writing, Payroll, Government Affairs, Talent Development, Creating Workplace initiatives and working closely with Operations in providing systems support. He is an expert in Change Management, Creator of Great Workplaces, Business Paradigms and Builder of Competitive Edge through the utilization of human capital to drive organizational performance at micro and macro levels.

Rob Veersma

Gazprom International Training

Director Training & Development

Rob Veersma is the Director Training & Development at Gazprom International in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is responsible for implementing training programs for Gazprom EP International, aligned with the competence management system and tailored to local needs.Previously he has been working for Shell International as the Commercial Academy Learning Manager, responsible for all aspects of global capability building that enables world-class deal making. During his long career he has been focusing on global onboarding, virtual working, leadership development and portfolio management. He is a published HR expert and has given many public speeches on among others, Performance Improvement, Just-in-time-learning, Learning and Ethics, Virtual Working, and ROI of Learning.

Barbara Wright-Avlitis

The Wright Work Place

Managing Director

The  WrightWorkPlace   helps   organisations   around   the   world   build   pro-resilient, healthy companies.
Barbara holds a Master of Sciences (MSc) Degree, with  Distinction,  from  the University of Liverpool, UK, in Global Human Resources.
She worked for 20 years with 3M Company, in the U.S., Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia where she progressed throughout the organisation in sales, sales learning, and Human Resources Development. Her experience also includes serving as General Manager of HR and Global Head of Leadership Development,   as well as Global Head of Leadership and Change with ING Group (Banking and Insurance)    in    Amsterdam.    After    ING,    Barbara    became    the    Global    Head    of Leadership Development for Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland.
Barbara brings, to the HR Bootcamp, an extensive experience in organisational change and leadership transformation on a global scale. She has influenced business leaders in more than 32 countries, over the past 30+ years, to strengthen their personal, team, and organisational effectiveness through strategic learning.
Barbara has also involved some of her colleagues, from around the world, to join us on Bootcamp day to bring their own content on various aspects of wellbeing from the perspective of HR leaders, team leaders and employees. Together, we will make the day about real-life issues we are all facing, not only on hypothetical cases.

Georgina Ibrahim

BESST & TrainingDirectory-Mena

Managing Director

Ms. Georgina Ibrahim is a highly professional HR Consultant, Soft Skills Trainer & Talent Acquisition Specialist. Beside teaching in renowned universities for the last 13 years, she manages her own HR firm, offering distinguished services in Soft Skills Training as well as Recruitment. Headhunting & Talent Management. Her domestic and regional training work experience had been with multiple companies, in different industries and various countries of the MENA region, i.e. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Tunis. She is the founder of TrainingDirectory-Mena, the first platform of its kind in the MENA region.

Ramakrishna Movva, Phd.

Chrysalis Consulting Solutions

Founder & CEO

Ramki performed various HR leadership roles in a career spanning over three decades. He last held the Executive VP & Head of Strategic HR and Organizational Capabilities position at Emirates NBD. INSEAD Business School published a case study on the HR transformation he facilitated at Emirates NBD. Previously, he worked with PwC and Unilever. He recently founded Chrysalis Consulting Solutions that provides consulting, coaching, learning, and advisory services in organizational and leadership development.

Ramki had the opportunity to conceive and execute organizational culture change initiatives and design new-age practices relating to leadership development, performance management, high potential talent, and succession programs. Besides, he trained and coached senior leaders and high-performing teams from diverse cultures to help them be at their best. 

He has a doctoral degree from California Institute of Integral Studies, USA, a postgraduate diploma in Occupational Psychology from the University of Surrey, UK, and a Master’s degree in HR from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. In addition, he is an International Coach Federation certified leadership and team coach. 
Ramki lives with his family in Dubai. He replenishes his inner self through long walks, mindfulness practices, music, and gardening.

Suhail Masri

Bayt.com

VP - Sales

Suhail is leading the Sales operation at Bayt.com. Suhail leads the sales operation at Bayt.com. Suhail has held varied roles in sales, marketing and business development across the Middle East over the past 20 years. Prior to Bayt.com, Suhail worked at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical company MERK & Co., where he was responsible for the sales and marketing of leading brands in the region. In addition to his sales and business development experience, Suhail has held various roles in human resource development, where he was in charge of coordinating and leading the implementation of human resource practices, sales capacity building programs, and ongoing development of a superior workforce. Suhail is a graduate of Jordan University of Science and Technology with a BSc in Pharmacology.

Hussein Dajani

Nissan

General Manager - Digital and Customer Experience (CX) Transformation - Africa, ME, Turkey, & India

Hussein has over 18 years of solid holistic Omnichannel Marketing Communication experience in the space leading and building seamless Phygital Customer Experience Journeys within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA) and Fortune 500 companies (Virgin Mobile, Red Bull, Nissan Motor Co.), across the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and India region.
After a 2 years stint with hug digital, as its Chief Digital and Operating Officer, which he grew exponentially till he lead to its sale to WPP, Hussein joins Nissan Motor Co. as General Manager Digital and Customer Experience for Africa, Middle East, India, and Turkey, for Nissan and Datsun brands, to be responsible for its Digital Transformation. Furthermore, Hussein plays an active role in the advisory council of the World Marketing Congress, as a Director with the Customer Institute, and as an expert advisor in ISMA (International Social Media Association).