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 Azim Jamal - The Corporate Sufi
Azim Jamal was born in Tanzania and educated in Kenya, UK and
Canada. Over 1,000,000 people have heard his uplifting message across the world including the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa – His group of audiences ranges from 50 to 10,000. Azim is a dynamic, thought provoking and inspiring speaker and a visionary with his feet on the ground. He has been featured on television, radio, newspapers and magazines. Azim has also earned 3 professional accounting and financial degrees including a CGA and CFP, and has been a senior partner in an accounting firm for 15 years.
Azim is the author of several books including The Corporate Sufi and the bestseller, 7 Steps to Lasting Happiness. But most importantly, Azim walks his talk. He is dedicated to making the world a better place and has volunteered 15 hours per week for 20 years, including service to Afghan refugees overseas. He meditates regularly and lives a balanced life with his wife, parents and 2 children. He has been awarded Sportsman of the Year in both Canada (1982) and Tanzania (1973) and Footballer of the Year in UK (1975).
Through his books and his presentations, Azim Jamal’s goal is to inspire you to live to your potential, find inner happiness and live a balanced life.
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 Evina Hameeteman
Evina Hameeteman heads mindXcel Consultancy and has more than 20 years of experience in business. Her background is in HR, Sales Management and Entrepreneurship. She is a licensed NLP™ Trainer and Business Master since 1999 and combines her business knowledge with NLP™ to present an effective blend for business training. Evina is fluent in English, Dutch and German.
Her straight talking and direct approach is thorough and effective as she gets to the heart of the issue to identify what needs to be done in order to make a difference.
She says, 'During my trainings I endeavor to create a collaborative learning environment where the potential of each delegate can be utilized'
Evina has been featured in various magazines and newspapers in Australia and the UK, including Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Brisbane Courier, ICircle, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Metro London, B-Magazine and Bella Magazine. The radio publicity includes BBC1 Radio, BBC London, Ernie Sigley Show, Vanessa Feltz Show, BBC Radio Leeds and Talk Sport Radio. She has been a guest on the BBC1 TV show ‘Now You’re Talking’ and writes various articles for NLP™ Associations.
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 Susan Macalulay, Managing Director, Strike Communications
Susan Macalulay is a skilled business communicator with more than 20 years experience in planning and executing communications programs for a diversity of clients in Canada and the Middle East.
Susan writes and produces outstanding presentations, speeches and conference papers, and trains professional business executives at all levels in powerful business presentation and public speaking skills as well as producing targeted communications tools such as corporate brochures, marketing material, media packages, websites and videos. Susan's client list includes: Jumeirah Group, DUBAL, Dubai Development and Investment Authority, FERTIL, Nakheel, UAE Offsets Group, ANZ Investment Bank, Shuaa Capital, and business women across the UAE. She has written and produced speeches for presentation to large international audiences across the globe. Susan has also coached senior executives at organizations such as BP Middle East, Dubai Duty Free, Dubai Media City and VISA International.
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 Dr Olga Kampaxi- (PhD Psychology)
Dr. Olga Kampaxi holds a PhD in Psychology from Bristol University, UK. As an Assistant Professor at The Emirates Academy she lectures on Business Ethics, HRM and organizational Behaviour as well as well as facilitating knowledge in areas such as Corporate Responsibility, Human Resource Management and other related sub-areas.
New programs include Employer Branding, Cultural Intelligence & Awareness.
She was recently recognized with an award for her contribution to the Future Leaders Program organized by the Dubai Ethics Resource Center and has reviewed the Codes of Ethics in Tourism book authored by Fennell and Malloy. She also contributes to the internal Jumeirah newsletter with a section on Management Tips.
Olga has worked in the United Kingdom as a lecturer for Bristol University, Bath Spa College of Higher Education and Worcester College of HE, as well as in Greece for various British institutions based in Athens on a part-time basis. She worked for the Hellenic American University as the Dean of Student Affairs but at the same time doing HR consultancy projects as well as delivering professional training courses.
She held the position of Researcher for the E-Commerce department in a direct marketing company based in the Bristol, UK where later on she moved to Airbus UK where she was employed as a Project coordinator for Intranet and other enterprise communications projects. In 2000, she returned to Greece to work as an HR Manager for an IT company, UniSystems.
Olga has also facilitated two re-engineering projects, worked for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games as a Regional Staffing Manager and some of the companies she has worked with as a consultant and/ or trainer on a variety of subjects including Coaching and Team Integration include Siemens, Motor Oil, Swissport Hellas, Medecins Sans Frontieres and others.
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 Mark McGregor
Mark McGregor speaks, writes and coaches all over the world. In the past two years alone, he has presented to over 5,000 people in more than 20 countries. Mark has authored or co-authored numerous books including “Thrive! How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer”, Winning With Enterprise Process Management” and “In Search of BPM Excellence” and hundreds of articles on Business improvement, Business Process and Enterprise Architecture. As an experienced BPM Practitioner, a Six Sigma Black Belt, a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner and Licensed Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, Mark brings a broad skill set to his clients. He has been described as a “Guru” by leading analysts Gartner Group and a “Thought Leader” by the BPM Group.
Mark is also one of the creators of the popular “8 Omega Framework for Business Change” Using his own unique style and blend of skills he gets people to “Think Differently” about how they do and perceive business, this leads clients to a better understanding of the needs of their customers and designing processes that deliver excellence in performance.
In his 25 years in the IT industry Mark has held a variety of positions in the past including Director at BPM Group, Managing Director/VP Business Strategy at MEGA International, VP World Wide Marketing-Popkin Software (acquired by Telelogic). Mark has recently contributed to publications such as CIO magazine, Finance Today, and previously been published in Success Now, Enterprise Middleware, Application Development Magazine, Midrange Computing and Software Developer Magazine.
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 Dr. Sunil Gupta
Dr. Sunil Gupta, the Creative Guru, attained his early education at the University of Bombay. He then worked for his Post Masters Research and Advanced Training at the University of New York,
where he completed his Ph.D. in Management.
Dr. Gupta has been certified as a Master Trainer and Consultant personally by Dr. Edward de Bono. Dr. Gupta is licenced to offer Six Thinking Hats®, Lateral ThinkingTM, Simplicity®, and CoRTTM workshops and consultancy in the GCC, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
He is a Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma from Motorolla University USA, and a certified Mind Mapping Instructor from Tony Buzan. He is certified in Kepner TregoeTM - Problem Solving and Decision Making Techniques, and is a certified facilitator for "Voice of the Customer", ODI Inc., USA. Dr. Gupta is also certified by Ken Blanchard in Whale DoneTM, Gung Ho®, and One Minute Manager®, and many other international certifications.
He has over 28-years of academic and industrial experience. His previous work assignments have been in Singapore, USA, India, Pakistan and the GCC countries with multinationals and Government sector. His core competencies include Management Development, HRD, Organization Development, Human Resource Information System (HRIS) General Management, Creativity and Change Management.
He was Corporate Manager-HRD at Colgate Palmolive Inc. India, where he received the Chairman's "You Can Make A Difference" Award. In Pakistan, Dr. Gupta has worked with BP, Castrol, Ufone, Young Presidents' Organization and many other organizations in public and in-company programs.
Participants in his training programs have come of across 35 countries and from 75 nationalities. |
 Omar Shamma, Cheif Executive, Third Eye FZ LLC
Omar Shamma has been active in marketing and management, during his tenure in hands-on marketing management and business development and leadership roles with Fosroc, Dow Chemical, Polyblends and EA Juffali & Bros. in Europe, the Middle East and Asia between1980 and 2004. In 2004, Omar founded the Dubai-based marketing excellence practice, Third Eye, and is an associate practitioner of GEMS International. Utilising more than 25 years of practical marketing experience, Omar delivers practical, results-oriented marketing programs that will directly impact the bottom line. In a short period of operation Third Eye has successfully served several major clients, including Shell, Dow Chemical, Degussa, ICI Paints, and Fosroc International. In addition to tailored in-house marketing programs and workshops, Third Eye Academy delivers public marketing programs delivered at the Dubai Knowledge Village, a specialist free zone professional development campus.
Omar is an established and experienced marketing practitioner who emphasises creative development and practical application and can draw on a wealth of experience from working with many different organisations on their strategic marketing around the world. |
 Thomas Lingner, Managing Partner, BC Basel Consulting Group FZ-LLC
Thomas holds a Masters in National Economics from the University of Basel and has completed his
MBA from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thomas is a managing partner at the Basal Consulting group for the past 15 years, has a successful career behind him. Thomas started his career at Knight Wendling AG as a consultant in production planning systems and then in Ex Libris AG as an organizer and management assistant. He then moved to Jemoli SA as manager of the division living dishes, interior; CHF 200m turnover. Here he was member of the board of management, new segmentation and readjustment of the whole assortment according to different client market segments.
Over his 15 year tenure at Basel Consulting Group, Thomas has led the company’s expansion to the Middle East and has actively worked in building up the company and its client base. Thomas has led projects to ensure customer loyalty through successful marketing programs and has contributed to bringing management on time through the implementation of the Shopping Bonus Card. Thomas has been involved in consulting projects with Roche, UBS AG, Credit Suisse, Konsumgenossenschaft Dortmund, Hotelplan and with medium sized companies in Switzerland and Germany in the arena of IT Service, Risk Management, Performance Measurement systems, Merger & Acquisition and post merger integration.
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 David Jones, Director, Paragon Consulting Middle East
David is one of Europe's leading experts in financial management processes, management information systems and business performance management, particularly as applied to the corporate centre. He has worked in this area for 17 years and before joining Paragon was an Associate Partner with the financial management team at IBM Business Consulting Services
(formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting).
He has specialized in working on programmers with large multinational corporations to design and implement group-wide, high performance management and financial reporting processes and systems using the latest techniques and technologies available. He has particular expertise in the fast close, better budgeting and performance management. At Paragon, he is Director of the Process Transformation practice and is helping to drive the rapid growth of Paragon Business Performance Management (BPM) services.
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 Alan Fell
has a total of more than 40 years business experience, mainly at management levels, split between 31 years with a major UK bank and the last 12 years as an internationally focused management consultant and trainer. In his most recent operational management role, he was Head of Planning and Finance for a major division of the bank with 3,000 staff and an annual turnover in excess of US$1bn.
For the last 30 years, Alan has been a highly experienced specialist and practitioner in Corporate Performance Management covering a wide range of financially focused performance management disciplines – both in policy formulation and practical application roles.
In one of his later management roles, he was directly responsible to the CEO of a 100,000 staff organization for coordinating a worldwide Cost Management program – the outcome being a downsizing of 18,000 roles over a two and a half-year period, without any significant business disposals.
He is a highly experienced conference and seminar leader, having facilitated well over 100 events in the last 12 years across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Far East, South Africa and the USA. He is a regular visitor to Asia, and has frequently presented at conferences and seminars with Asia Business Forum.
Based on these extensive business experiences, Alan brings a highly pragmatic approach to the understanding and practical utilization of Activity Based Cost Management. |
 Badar Khushnood Country Consultant Pakistan, Google Inc.
He is helping Google grow its market share and educate the population about its innovative products. He is also responsible for establishing quality relationships with people/organizations of interest to Google Inc.
Badar is a strong believer in cutting-edge technology. With an in-born passion for Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), Badar was previously Pakistan Sales & Marketing Manager for ASUSTeK Computers Inc where he was responsible for country marketing & business strategy and execution. He also holds the honor to be the 1st Project Director of Industrial Information Network (IIN) at SMEDA.
Badar secured his Masters in Economics & Management from the Lahore School of Economics (LSE) and undergrad from the Government College (GC), Lahore. He has extensive experience of working in multi-cultural, multi-stake-holder and public-private-donor partnership business models. During a decade of experience, Badar has won many hats and has various entrepreneurial initiatives to his credit. He has also represented Pakistan at various international forums and has traveled extensively across the globe. |
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