BANAGAS Awarded OHSAS 18001:2007 Certificate
Representatives of the certification body, Bureau Veritas, have expressed their complete satisfaction with Banagas’s Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Management System.
Family Business in Bahrain Recovering from the Crisis and Going International
Adel Fakhro, Group Managing Director of Abdulla Yousif Fakhro & Sons
Our challenge is to foresee the country’s future development. It is developing very quickly, and it is hard for universities to follow its pace. We believe that partnerships with European, Canadian and American universities will help us to do so.
Peter Kaliaropoulos – Biography
Peter Kaliaropoulos joined Batelco in June 2005 and has led its transformation into a regional company now operating in seven countries. Batelco’s combined customer base at Q3 2010 exceeded 7.9 million mobile and broadband customers with revenues over USD679m and net profit of USD175m.
Abdulrahman A.Hussain Jawahery – Biography
Born in 1956, Abdulrahman A.Hussain Jawahery is a Chartered Chemica Engineer with BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from UK, a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Environmentalist. He established his work career in BP Research Centre, UK for 2 years before joining the Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (GPIC) in 1983. Having undergone extensive training and development both in the Kingdom of Bahrain as well as overseas, he held a number of senior positions in GPIC including Operations Manager, Urea Project Manager, Plants Operations Manager, General Manager and now as President of the Company.
Grant Jackson – Biography
Grant Jackson: Biography
Michel De Bustros – Biography
Michel de Bustros: Biography
Mohammed Hariri Biography
Mr. Mohammed Hariri
Scott Gegenheimer Biography
Mr. M. Scott Gegenheimer was named General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Wataniya Telecom in January 2008.
Mr. Gegenheimer comes to Wataniya Telecom with over 20 years of telecommunications & technology experience, most recently serving as co-CEO of Tunisiana, a leading mobile operator in Tunisia (joint venture between Wataniya Telecom and Orascom Telecom). In 2002, he was appointed the Chief Financial Officer of Tunisiana and was the lead on arranging Euro 290 million of project financing with a consortium of European banks during the initial start-up phase.
Prior to this, Mr. Gegenheimer was the Managing Director & Venture CFO of THCG, providing strategic, financial and operational direction to a portfolio of seed and early-stage companies. Mr. Gegenheimer has also held senior finance positions at Motorola, Cisco Systems and Adaptive Broadband where he was engaged in international joint ventures, corporate development, treasury and corporate finance activities and supported GSM mobile operations in Jordan, Lithuania and Russia.
A native of Chicago, USA, Mr. Gegenheimer received an MBA in 1993 from DePaul University in Chicago and a Bachelors of Science in Finance from Northern Illinois University in 1989.
H.E. Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa – Biography
H.E. Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed
His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa – Biography
H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa was born in 1936, and he is the second of 3 sons born to the former Amir of Bahrain the late Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. He is married and has two sons and a daughter.