Leadership

Shaikh Isa bin Khalid Al Khalifa

Shaikh Isa bin Khalid Al Khalifa is the Founder and Managing Director of Seaspring W.L.L., a Bahrain-based international investment consultancy firm with a strategic focus on bringing distinct investment solutions from various sectors including, but not limited to healthcare, biotech, technology, and cybersecurity to the Gulf region. These include arranging growth equity in Biotricity Inc., a leading remote cardiac telemetry company based in Redwood City, California, and My Next Health, a genomic-based AI and quantum platform healthcare company in Toronto, Ontario.

Prior to founding Seaspring, Shaikh Isa was a private equity associate with Oasis Capital Bank in Bahrain where he helped raise over US $245M in paid up capital, in addition to establishing a clean, tech focused fund. Prior to this, Shaikh Isa was Assistant Manager of Corporate Banking and Finance at Citibank Bahrain where he was a key member of the team that oversaw the refinancing of Alba’s potline 5.

Shaikh Isa holds a Master of Science in Global Financial Analysis from Bentley University, Waltham, MA.

Omar A. Al-Amoudi

Mr. Omar Al-Amoudi has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) and Masters in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University, USA.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors for PETROKEMYA, Chairman of the Board of Directors for HADEED, Chairman of the Board of Directors for TATWEER BUILDINGS COMPANY (TBC) and Member of the Board of Directors of ALUMINUM BAHRAIN B.S.C. (ALBA).

Prior to this, Mr. Omar has been the Executive Vice President, Engineering & Project Management and preceding this he was Executive Vice President, Shared Services.

Mr. Omar was also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPECIALTY CHEM, GAS, ARRAZI and he was the Board Member of SHARQ, IBN RUSHD, PETROKEMYA, SADAF, IBN SINA and MARAFIQ. He is also the ex-President of PETROKEMYA and IBN ZAHR.

Ahmed Alduriaan

Mr. Ahmed Alduriaan comes to Alba with a wealth of experience. He has over 33 years of experience in SABIC (the 3rd largest chemicals company in the world focused on chemicals, agri-nutrients and metals). Mr. Alduriaan is heading SABIC’s global joint venture portfolio management looking after more than 50 companies across the world and leading discussions with many regional and Foreign partners to improve joint ventures performance and governance.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Alduriaan spent over ten years managing the Merger & Acquisitions Execution Department in Sabic. Before this, he held a number of positions including Hadeed Venture Manager.

Mr. Alduriaan is currently a board member of HADEED and the Chairman of HADEED board audit Committee. He is also the Vice Chairman of Garmco Board.

Mr. Alduriaan hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering.

Tim Murray

Tim Murray is CEO of Cardinal Virtues Consulting and has over 20 years of executive leadership experience. He holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University as well as a degree in Accounting from Susquehanna University. He is also CPA and a member of the American Institute of CPAs.

Tim recently published his first book called “CEO Words of Wisdom (WoWs)”. The WoWs deliver practical life lessons to help you survive and thrive in the Post COVID world.

Tim spent 12 years with Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) where he was CEO for the 7 last of those years. During his time at Alba he was also Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer and General Manager of Finance.

Tim played an instrumental role in the $3 billion Line 6 Expansion Project which was commissioned on-time and significantly under budget. He is considered an expert in Safety Management and played a key role in the transformation of Alba’s Safety culture.

Tim spent 10 years with ARC Automotive where in his last role he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He played a key role in the building of greenfield manufacturing facilities in both Mexico and China.

Tim is an avid reader and also an Adjunct Professor at Susquehanna University teaching classes on the impact of CEO leadership.

Roselyne Renel

Roselyne Renel joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in February 2020 as Group Chief Credit Officer with direct responsibility for credit risk globally across all businesses of the Group.

Before this appointment, she spent 6 years at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) as the Group Chief Credit Officer and also led the establishment of SCB’s Enterprise Risk Management.

Prior to SCB, Ms Renel spent two and half years at Standard Bank of South Africa as Chief Risk Officer for the Corporate & Investment Banking division, and just over 16 years at Deutsche Bank where she held various senior roles including Chief Credit Officer for Emerging Markets and the Global Markets and Global Banking divisions.

She is a seasoned financial services executive with deep domain expertise managing risk across a broad range of asset classes, products and client segments.  She is highly skilled in credit, market, liquidity and strategic risks, both in developed and emerging markets, across a wide range of banking and financial services sectors.

She is an alumni of University of Columbia, USA, where she completed the Senior Executive Advanced Management Program.  She completed the Credit Graduate program delivered by Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JP Morgan) and holds the Advanced Certification in Accounting and Bookkeeping from the London Chamber of Commerce.

She is passionate in the issues of women, girls and the underprivileged and is actively involved in championing and raising awareness of these topics.

Omar Syed

Omar joined Mumtalakat as Chief Investment Officer in 2021 with over 20 years of experience in private equity, with a track record of origination, execution, and portfolio management of companies across diverse sectors in the US, Europe, MENA, Turkey, and South Asia including restructuring and turnaround of portfolio companies.

Omar received his Master’s in Accounting from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Management from McGill University in Canada. He is also a CA and a CFA charter holder.

Bruce Cox

Bruce Cox is an experienced Non-Executive Director, CEO, COO and CFO spanning a career of more than 40 years. He has worked in a broad range of industrial, manufacturing and mining environments. His career has spanned the Steel, Aluminium, Alumina, Bauxite, Diamond, Iron Ore, Platinum, Uranium, and Copper manufacturing, refining, smelting and mining sectors. He has held senior executive positions in BHP for 23 years and Rio Tinto for 16 years. In these roles, he has lived in Australia, Chile, Zimbabwe, USA, UK, and Canada.

Bruce's last executive roles with Rio Tinto were Managing Director of Pacific Operations for Rio Tinto Aluminium, CEO Pacific Aluminium and Managing Director Rio Tinto Diamonds.

Bruce has been Chairman of the Australian Aluminium Council, Chairman and Director of the Tomago Smelter, Chairman of Queensland Alumina Refinery and was a non-executive director of the listed company ERA. Bruce is currently on the advisory board for Ajlan & Bros Mining and Mineral Processing Investments, Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for Aurelia Metals (ASX listed) in addition to his role on the Board for Aluminium Bahrain. He has a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Jihad Hakamy

Jihad Hakamy obtained a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School and a Bachelor degree in Engineering Science from King Fahd University. He also hold a Master Degree in International Business from Florida International University.

Jihad started his career as a field engineer in the energy sector, providing technical advisory and successfully managing power plants installations across the USA, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.

Currently, Jihad serves as the General Manager and Chief Counsel for Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), in their Riyadh Head Quarters. He leads the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific legal teams including Commercial, Procurement, M&A, Compliance, Litigation and Corporate Governance.

Jihad serves as a board member in the Saudi Industrial Investment Company (Dussur) and set in the board audit, risk and compliance committee.

Hala Mufeez

Mrs. Hala is the CFO of Bapco Upstream, a Bahrain-based NOC responsible for all upstream activities in the Oil and Gas sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. In her current role she is responsible for overseeing the Finance, Supply Chain and Management Accounting function. Mrs. Hala is a strategic leader bringing 27 years of diverse experience to her role and is highly regarded for her rigorous specialisation in all areas of Finance, Audit, Compliance and ability in establishing and developing core functions from the ground up.

Mrs. Hala joined Bapco Upstream in 2010, leading the Finance function where her role focused on financial planning as well as analyzing the Company's financial strengths and weaknesses and proposing corrective actions. She is also responsible for advising the CEO, Board of Directors and other stakeholders including the Ministry of Finance and National Economy on financial matters and budgets relating to the Upstream activities.

Prior to joining Bapco Upstream, Mrs. Hala was a principal – risk management and compliance officer & MLRO in First Investment Bank where she was responsible for providing an independent risk perspective on investments, developing compliance and AML policies and also managing the internal audit function. Mrs. Hala has also held the position of Senior Manager – risk management and compliance officer at Bahrain Islamic Bank in which her role included overseeing the compliance program for the Bank, managing business continuity and internal quality assurance team for the core banking implementation project. She was also a member of ALCO and the IT steering Committee. Mrs. Hala started her career at Ernst & Young where she was responsible for managing external audits across various industries.

Mrs. Hala is Board member at Aluminium Bahrain, which is the largest smelter outside of China. She is also a Board member in Bapco Gas and Bapco Gas Expansion where she is also the Chairperson of the Audit Committee.

Mrs. Hala holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Bahrain and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Illinois.