Chief Executive Officer - Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES)
Khalid M. Al Qubaisi was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Abu Dhabi Energy Services in August of 2021. He has more than 15 years of experience in business development, operations and asset management across multiple sectors including ICT, Investments, Real Estate, Commodity Trading and Ship Building. In his current role, Khalid plays an integral part in helping grow the energy services marketplace. As a market maker for Energy Services, ADES is mandated to ramp-up project development and execution to reduce energy consumption by providing demand side solutions targeted at efficient use of water and electricity in the Emirate and beyond. Khalid’s most recent assignment was at Mubadala Investment Company as Vice President of Information Communication and Technology. Prior to this, Khalid served in several leadership positions across many key entities. Khalid holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Financial Administration and Financial Institutions.
Suhaib Al Marzooqi
Head of Business Development - Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES)
With over 16 years of experience, Suhaib is a seasoned executive with solid knowledge in the Energy and Transportation sectors in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. In his current position as Head of Business Development Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES), Suhaib oversees the company’s project pipeline and growth opportunities.
Prior to ADES, Suhaib worked on several transportation efficiency and pollution reduction programs. He also occupied senior managerial roles in Strategic Planning and Sustainability within government organizations in the Emirate. Suhaib holds a bachelor’s degree in Management of Information System, a master’s degree with Honors in Business Administration and is currently undergoing his Doctorate program on Energy Efficiency. He is also a certified CSR Practitioner.
Ahmed Juma Ghanim Al Falasi
Energy Efficiency Sector Executive Directorate / Acting - Department of Energy - Abu Dhabi
Alexander Alzamora
Head of Energy Efficiency - ENGIE Solutions
Alex is a energy expert with over 15 years of experience in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industry, primarily in the GCC region. He is currently the Head of Energy Efficiency at Engie Solutions in Dubai, where he leads a team of 30+ experts in energy applications ranging from commercial building retrofits, to on-site energy production. He has previously held the position of Head of Industrial Applications at Engie Solutions, where he pioneered the concept of the application of ESCO models in the industrial sector. With a background in change management and merger integration, Alex is a skilled leader with strengths in building strategic relationships to support key business initiatives. He is known for his excellent interpersonal and communication skills and experience managing matrixed organizations.
Yamin Shihab
Vice President - Colliers Project Leaders ME
Yamin Shihab serves as the Vice President of Colliers Project Leaders in the Middle East, bringing with him more than 20 years of international project and program management experience in the construction, consultancy, and real estate sectors. Throughout his career, Yamin has successfully delivered projects valued at over AED 10 billion, and he strongly believes in implementing world-class project management practices to protect the best interests of project owners. Yamin also builds trusting and collaborative environments while working with clients from both the public and private sectors.
In addition to his expertise in project management, Yamin is also passionate about speaking on collaboration techniques, leadership, and emotional intelligence. He believes in the importance of these skills for achieving success in any project, regardless of its size or complexity. With his exceptional problem-solving abilities and positive outlook, Yamin leads large, multi-disciplinary teams of stakeholders and resolves challenges on projects while incorporating the principles of collaboration, leadership, and emotional intelligence.
Tushant Suri
Head of Sustainability, Middle East - Ramboll
Tushant has been working in the ESG space for over 11 years across a number of international markets including India, Middle East & Europe in the real-estate, infrastructure and manufacturing sector.
With a background in corporate ESG strategy for listed companies, decarbonisation pathways, technical low-carbon/net-zero design and construction, and renewable energy procurement including power purchase agreements (PPAs), he has been developed and implemented value creation model for Multiplex (a Brookfield company) Middle East and Multiplex (a Brookfield company) Europe.
Over the last 5-years, he is working closely with across industry groups including World Economic Forum ‘Concrete Zero’ working group, UK Green Building Council, the Science Based Targets Initiative’s advisory board for ‘Building’ sector, World Green Building Council and as a Board member at Emirates Green Building Council.
Ahmed Labeeb Sharafeldin
Sustainability Energy Manager - KEO Sustainability & Environmental Services
Ahmed Labeeb, KEO’s Sustainability Energy Manager, has provided leading energy and carbon-related services to various sectors within the MENA region and, within KEO, he is leading a team of energy and carbon modelling experts. Over the past ten years, he was responsible for the energy reduction and carbon management of projects, including Healthcare, Hospitality, Residential, Commercial, and other Special Applications sectors. The scale of projects ranging from small-size buildings to mega-developments, and the certification requirements that have been followed in energy efficiency included both local and international standards. Mr. Labeeb has acquired substantial industrial experience that allows him to have a comprehensive view and knowledge of the challenges and conditions present and associated with carbon management strategies. His experience is particularly valuable as it adheres to the green transitions and low-energy buildings approach, which is both a global trend and an ethical duty towards the environment.
Nic Byczynski
Director of Sustainable Engineering - AESG
Nicholas is a highly experienced, award winning, Chartered Engineer and Fellow of CIBSE with 20 years’ experience, 15 of which have been in the Middle East leading the consultancy teams in the design of high value, complex, projects across a range of sectors, particularly Hospitality, Residential, Public Amenities and Retail.
At every opportunity Nicholas has embraced low energy building design with sometimes pioneering use of a range of sustainable building techniques including natural ventilation, solar thermal, PV, Rainwater recycling, concrete core cooling and advanced chiller system integrated controls.
Andy Dean
Technical Director - Asset Transformation - WSP Middle East
Andy has over 30 years of experience in Building and Construction, ranging from structural testing within the nuclear industry to fire testing.
Having established a Dubai façade laboratory, and operated it for 10 years, he has particular knowledge of building envelope systems and materials testing. He has carried out many consultancy projects as a third-party specialist; particularly updating the facades of existing buildings.
Andy is a fellow of the CIOB and SFE.
He continues to provide input into regional code and is a regular speaker at industry technical seminars such as this one.
Sami Awad Ibrahim
DSM Specialist - Electricity Commercial Government - Abu Dhabi Distribution Co.
Sami is a Demand Side Specialist with over 25 years diverse experience in Sustainability, Energy Conservation & Management, Demand Side Management & LEED Certification, Energy Policy Development, Energy Services, High Performance Buildings, Green Communities, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy Resiliency, Industrial Energy Management, Demand Response and Tariff Reform Studies.
Sami is also an expert in Energy Audits, Value Engineering, Project Management, Performance Contracting and Shared Energy Saving Schemes.
Sami implemented DSM, Quality & Energy Management systems conforming to ISO50001 requirements in some of the biggest & complex organization in the world.
During his career Sami worked on various Buildings, Infra-structure and Utilities projects.
Sami is LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Energy Professional (CEP), Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP).
Ahmed Al Najjar
Senior Market Assessment Specialist - Al Ain Distribution Company
Ahmed Al Najjar has over 16 years of professional experience offering advisory and management consulting for the energy sector. He’s been supporting federal, local governments’ agencies, and NGO’s across the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia developing strategies and business models. He’s also managed implementation of programs that address regulatory reforms, business transformation, and demand management. Ahmed has decade of experience establishing business units, capacity building and management, business planning, corporate communications and social responsibility, and customer service. He also leverages his in-depth knowledge gained through working with world leading organizations and combined with profound understanding of the middle-eastern culture and living environment, key stakeholders and markets.
Gayathri Udhay
Senior Sustainability & Net Zero Consultant MENA - JLL
Gayathri Udhay is a Senior Sustainability & Net Zero Consultant at JLL with 14 years of experience delivering sustainable solutions to the real estate industry across the Middle East and Asia. An Energy and Environmental Engineer by profession, she is a LEED and WELL Accredited Professional and is a certified LEED Green Rater.
Gayathri has worked on numerous innovative Net Zero projects in the region, including DEWA Solar Innovation Centre, Al Sheraa Net Zero headquarters and Aldar Developments Net Zero implementation. Her experience is from inception through commissioning and operations, ensuring the projects are delivering what they are set out to, in terms of sustainability.
Besides being a passionate advocator of sustainability implementation, Gayathri is also a mentor to numerous graduates and a regular educator of clients in the region.
Henrique Pereira
Chief Executive Officer - Taka Solutions
Henrique Pereira is the Chief Executive Officer of Taka Solutions, a UAE-based technology, engineering and finance
company that delivers comprehensive energy solutions to improve energy and water efficiency, reduce carbon impact
and save money.
Henrique has extensive experience in leadership roles, with more than 15 years in the ESCO and energy efficiency
markets across Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Taka Solutions, Henrique was working with the Ras Al Khaimah Municipality Department and was responsible for the buildings retrofit and energy management programs for
the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
His prior experience includes leadership roles such as VicePresident of the Portuguese Business Council in Dubai,
Managing Director at SEABRA Middle East, Managing Director at ISA, and Vice-President at Critical Software & Manufacturing, among others.
Eng. Vazeer Husain
Chief Operating Officer - Adeeb Group
Kulvinder Singh
Director of Facilities/Asset Management - New York University Abu Dhabi
Tariq Najjar
Demand-Side Management Engineer - Al Ain Distribution Company
Tariq Najar is a demand-side management engineer at TAQA group with more than nine years of experience in the energy sector; Tariq has a Bachelor of Electrical power engineering, a Master of Science in Professional Studies from RIT Dubai: Data Analytics focusing area on climate change with a graduation project: Net Zero Insight: The Role of Data Analytics and Machine Learning, aiming that the policymakers can use the project insights and dashboards to assess better the impacts and implementation of their climate change mitigation policies and action.
Tariq is active in DSM working groups, the recent one with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DOE), to conduct a DSM strategy review. Tariq is doing a Master of ceremonies (MC) and focal points for youth circles and panel discussions, leads debate teams, and delivers public speaking at conferences.
Tariq is a climate activist and was selected as a youth ambassador at the TAQA youth council for World Utilities Congress 2023 at the first of its-kind Youth Energy Forum, Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan Cultural Centre, The Arab Youth Council for Climate Change (AYCCC), and YOUNGO energy working group – COP28 UAE team.
Tariq has gained worldwide certificates, such as Certified Expert in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance, certified Demand Side Manger, Business Energy Professional, Energy Manager, Measurement& Verification Professional, Project Manager, and LEED GA. Tariq has graduated from leadership programs such as we are the social leaders in Jordan. one of his recent volunteering experiences was at Expo Dubai 2020.
Omnia Halawani
Co - CEO & Founder - GRFN
Omnia cofounded grfn as a multidisciplinary consultancy with a mission to realize clients’ visions while sustaining the built environment via progressive, functional and lucrative environmentally-conscious engineering & design solutions for sustainable built environments that serve the wellbeing of your communities. The firm is driven by advanced engineering practices and innovative approaches and embeds environmental and social sustainability as integral to the operational model by embracing UN SDGs that align with our core activities in each and every project.
Through our projects, we add a new dimension to the convention of “doing-good” by revolving our day-to-day jobs around the pursuit to contribute to efforts to solve the global issue of climate crisis and energy efficiency as well as having a positive impact to the communities in which we live.
Omnia brings extensive experience in district cooling, buildings energy efficiency, and corporate sustainability. Her combined education and background in engineering and business is instrumental in the effective management of projects and the firm. She was recognized as a distinguished alumni entrepreneur by the American University of Sharjah in the year 2014 and is a regular speaker at regional conferences and contributor to periodicals and technical magazines.
Hassan Younes
Co - CEO & Founder - GRFN
Hassan Younes is the Co - CEO & Founder of grfn, a multi-disciplinary consultancy and has over 15 years of extensive experience in the fields of Energy Efficiency, Design, Sustainability, and Project Execution and Management. Hassan has been involved in many high-end projects in the MENA region encompassing MEP designs, energy efficiency, commissioning management , sustainability and measurement and verification for new and existing buildings in the MENA region. He also was involved in energy and sustainability policy studies for many governmental entities in the GCC.
He is a trainer for the ASHRAE Global Training Centre. He is a trainer for the Association of energy engineers’ Certified Energy Manager ( CEM) course, Energy Valuation Organization’s Certified Measurement Verification Professional (CMVP) course and the facilitator for the Emirates Green Building Council Building Retrofit Program. He is an appointed Consultant for ASHRAE 62.1 Standard and is a member of the training committee for the CMVP course.
He is also the current ASHRAE Falcon Chapter president and on the technical committee and was the Vice Chair of CIBSE Regional Chapter. Hassan holds all the ASHRAE certifications.
Husam Atef Mustafa Hammadeen
Head of Assets Management Unit - Emirates National School
Eng. Husam is the Head of Asset and Facilities Management at Emirates National School – Central Admin Department since 2015 with responsibility for planning, strategy and to ensure efficient management of assets and general services of ENS campuses across UAE. Manage, maintain and support the reliability of the systems, equipment, properties and assists in the facility management operation and cross functional departments
Eng. Husam also is a member of projects management committee at Ministry of Presidential Affairs (MOPA), which managing all schools projects belongs to MOPA across UAE from design stage till completion of the projects.
Prior to joining ENS, Mr. Husam worked as Project Manager in Secure Engineering which belongs to Abu Dhabi Police – Projects administration department , as well as FM Engineer in Genint for Etihad Airways Engineering facilities, Abu Dhabi, and before as Junior Electrical Engineer at National Electrical Power Company – Amman Jordan in the past decade before joining ENS in 2015.
Eng. Husam received Bachelors Degree in the field of Electrical Engineering from Yarmouk University in Jordan at 2011.
Eng. Husam has professional interests focus on improving the FM operations in alignment with Energy optimization and smoothen the processes, and his current projects include regulating energy and sustainable practices across all ENS campuses. In addition, Eng. Husam is a PMP certified professional from Sep 2021 and passionate towards improving the energy footprint of the entities of ENS across the UAE.
Burak Ozsoylu
Vice President – Business Development & MARCOM - Enova
Burak is the Vice President for Business Development and MARCOM at Enova. Under his role, Enova is driving sustainable growth and expansion by leveraging new business models and strategic partnerships in line with the UAE and other GCC countries’ sustainability visions.
With over 18 years of experience in strategy development, marketing, and sales, Burak has held global leadership positions in multinational companies, including General Electric, Schneider Electric, and Howden – with roles based in Austria and the United Kingdom.
His extensive background spans across the energy, oil and gas, and industrial sectors. Notably, Burak has contributed as an executive board member at the COGEN Europe association in Brussels, further showcasing his industry involvement and expertise.
Burak is a holder of a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Koc University in Turkey. He has also recently completed a degree in Artificial Intelligence in Business at the London Business School, demonstrating his commitment to staying at the forefront of emerging trends and technologies.