Leadership

Rashid Al-Naimi

Chairman

Vice President, Administration, Qatar Foundation

Rashid Al-Naimi is presently the Vice President of Administration for the Qatar Foundation. Mr. Al-Naimi carries portfolio responsibility for the administrative and operational functions of the Foundation, including the shared services areas of: Finance, Procurement, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Support Services.

The scope and scale of the project is in the Billions and the initiative will support the State of Qatar as it transforms to a knowledge-based society. Mr. Al-Naimi's breadth of experience encompasses a wide spectrum of the business lifecycle from conception, to production, from supply chain, to delivering cost effective world class products and services.

He holds an outstanding record for performance in delivering successful restructuring and turn-around programmes by creating team oriented environments that focus on continuous improvement to increase shareholder value.

Ghada P. El-Rassi

Business Process Improvement Director
& Advisor to the Chairman

As Business Process Improvement Director and Advisor to the Chairman, Ghada is responsible for facilitating process innovation, strategic planning, competitive analysis, and other corporate initiatives for MEEZA’s executive team and the office of the Chairman.

Ghada has over 17 years experience working with ERP software systems. In building her professional career, Ghada has gained specialist knowledge which has leveraged her experience in business and technical support.

Ghada is eager to ensure the continuance of a well-structured and dynamic environment where guidelines are clear and procedures are opportunistic. She also supports promoting good communication channels within corporations to achieve sustainable work dynamics and synergies across individual staff members and teams.

James Fanella

VP Sales & Marketing and Acting CEO

As a/CEO, Jim Fanella is leading the MEEZA team to drive growth and deliver on the strategic objectives of the company. Jim brings over 25 years of experience in the high tech industry with proven success in leading direct sales, channel management, professional services and marketing.

Jim has held senior level positions including Senior Vice President of Yahoo! where he led their Global Enterprise Solutions Group, which included Enterprise Portals, Streaming Media, Small Business, and Electronic Storefronts all of which accounted for over 20% of the company's worldwide revenues. In addition, Jim was a Managing Partner for Unisys, leading all of their Financial Services consulting in the United States. Jim also served as Chief Operating Officer for Computer Network Technology, a $500 million storage networking company.

Andrew Coll

Chief Financial Officer

Andrew Coll qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 1996 before moving into a senior finance position in Cable & Wireless PLC in the UK. He was seconded to undertake overseas strategic finance projects in the Far East working with Hong Kong Telecom, Optus and CT Macau.

Since then he has worked in Senior Finance roles in London. Andrew joins us from System C Healthcare where he was since January 2006. System C is listed on the London Stock Exchange and provides software and solutions to the healthcare sector. System C has tripled its revenues and its market capitalisation in the last 4 years.

As well as his financial responsibilities, Andrew led System C’s M&A strategy, including negotiations and the execution of 5 acquisitions in 2 years and a significant share placing in July 2009. System C has a blue chip shareholder base including Blackrock, Artemis, Fidelity, M&G and Guy Hands amongst others.

Ian Cross

Vice President Operations

As Vice President of Operations, Ian leads MEEZA’s delivery function. Ian’s goal is to ensure that MEEZA is recognised as the leading regional IT Services provider for customer experience and delivery excellence. He is responsible for Infrastructure, Architecture, Engineering, Service Operations and Client Services.

Ian has held senior management positions in leading Managed Services organisations, including CIO at Netstore plc and later as Operations Director for 2e2 UK Ltd. In these roles, Ian led transformational IT programmes to build new data centre capacity, implement shared service platforms and integrate teams from multiple historical businesses.

In his earlier career, Ian provided enterprise architecture consulting services to companies including Barclays Bank, UBS and Deutsche Bank.

Michael Molson

Vice President Solutions & Services

As VP of Solutions and Services, Mike is responsible for MEEZA’s Solution and Services function ensuring clients receive world-class solutions. Specifically, Michael is accountable for Solutions Management, Consulting and Project Management Services.

Prior to arriving in Qatar, Michael has played pivotal roles in the success of a number of high-growth start-up businesses and established technology companies in Canada and Europe.

He has held technical leadership and management positions across a wide range of functions including service strategy and innovation, pre-sales engineering, technical and customer operations, enterprise architecture and data centre management with organisations such as Ontario Power Generation (Nuclear), AT&T Canada, MTS/Allstream and MessageLabs Group.

DR. Jaouad Alkhaliki

Director Consulting Services

Dr. Jaouad leads MEEZA’s Consulting Services. He aims to establish MEEZA as a thought leader in the MENA region and is contributing to establishing Qatar's knowledge based society.

Dr. Jaouad brings 15 years of experience from industries including IT, petroleum, digital media, automotive, aerospace, biosciences and manufacturing.

Before joining MEEZA, and after his research and teaching in France, Dr. Jaouad held various senior positions in companies like Renault and IBM; focusing on innovation, strategy and technology advisory. He lead & delivered cutting-edge projects in distributed computing, grid technology and simulation — designing and engineering solutions centred around ubiquitous computing.

Dr. Jaouad started his business life by creating a start-up developing and selling realistic 3D rendering software.

Esther Kuiters

Human Resources Director

As Human Resources Director, Esther is responsible for MEEZA's human resources initiatives with particular emphasis on talent, cultural diversity, leadership, graduate and people development.

Esther brings several years of international experience in senior and executive human resources positions serving Booz Allen & Hamilton, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Ausenco Limited and Leighton Asia Limited based in roles in Europe, North America, Australia and China.

In addition to publishing two titles in Human Resources, Esther's career experience includes leadership roles in an Initial Public Offering, corporate acquisitions, HR transformation and organisational restructure programs, executive selection, corporate ethics & governance initiatives, leadership and talent development assignments.

Tajedin Idris Babekir

Head of Legal

Tajedin Babekir is the Legal Advisor of MEEZA. In this role Taj works to enable the organisation to identify and appropriately manage all legal risk associated with the business and to ensure full compliance with the laws and regulations in all legal issues.

Taj brings 13 years of solid experience in Corporate Law, Commercial Law and Intellectual Property Law as well as extensive experience in litigation characterised by front and senior positions in top law firms.

Before joining MEEZA, Taj worked at several Law Firms as attorney and legal counsel where he handled complicated and complex transactions and drafted and reviewed dozens of agreements and documents of a legal nature.

Taj holds LL.B and LL.M degrees.