Ramzi Ali

A proven, Human Resources Leader, positioned to effectively contribute to a challenging, professional, creative and rewarding environment, delivering measurable results with quality and integrity.

Recognized by my peers for facilitating change and creating cultures with high employee engagement.

Successful in both strategic and tactical delivery of organizational objectives, combined with strong business acumen together with an excellent accomplishment record.

Core strengths:
• General Management
• Leadership
• Nationalization (Saudization)
• Project & Portfolio Management
• Financial & Investment Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Technology
• Customer focused
• Consultancy & Relationship Management
• Strategic Planning

A catalyst for innovation with a focus on building strategic relationships with stakeholders, re-engineering business processes and creating HR strategies.

 Primary goal is to support subsidiary companies to meet current performance goals and expand future business potential
 Value added includes the institutionalization of subsidiary and group activities, integrated strategic planning and the introduction of processes to ensure better cohesion within the group’s various industries and divisions. This has resulted in consistent year-on-year growth in bottom line performance and KPI”s

 Responsibilities for Nesma Group include:

o Information Technology (Strategic role;IT Security; ERP)
o Research & Business Development
o Project Management (of special projects)
o Human Resource Development including Saudization, Training and Career Development, and Scholarships
o Corporate Investment Analysis
o Quality Assurance
o Administration & Maintenance
o Corporate Social Responsibility

 Oversee 35 Subsidiary companies in Saudi Arabia and abroad and across diverse industries. Meet on a quarterly basis to ensure target KPI’s are progressing as budgeted
 Responsible for all HR activities including Recruitment & Nationalization, Training & Development and the Nesma Training Center
 Responsible for preparation and monitoring of Nesma Holding Annual Budget and Head Office Construction project



 Served as Chairman of the Board of Environmental Services Development (ESD) Company, and Nesma Recycling. Chairman of Namma Digitec FZE (UAE), which has evolved from a start-up in 2006 to operations today in three countries. Shareholder representative in Jeddah Bio City Executive Committee, as well as ReAya Holding. Board Member of RETHAB Company among other companies, Board Member of various companies in Czech Republic, Bosnia and Croatia, as well as Nesma Batterjee, and First Contracting

 Chairman of the Board of Nesma Recycling Company which includes Power Generation and Metal, Paper and Plastic Recycling Divisions. Have maintained continuous year-on-year growth in both, sales and profitability

 Established IT Department and responsible for all Information Technology solutions at Labbaik. Accountable for timely and cost-effective delivery of quality-driven, customer-centric IT solutions
 Established and managed internal and external data centers with appropriate service level agreements, covering reliability, availability, performance, scalability and Quality Assurance
 Implemented first integrated e-government project in Saudi Arabia for Ministry of Interior Domestic Hajj Permit System which allowed the private sector to issue permits by conducting a real time check of the Ministry's IBM DB/2 database. High level of security and integrity required
 Responsible for $3.2 Million annual IT Budget
 Responsible for data integrity, overall security, business continuity planning, and research and development
 Project Managed several large-scale projects for KSA Ministry of Interior as client
 Introduced and applied Rationale Methodology (RUP) and UML (Unified Modelling Language) techniques to all Development projects
 Management of in-house and out-sourced projects including hosting, application development, deployment, web site (www.labbaik.com) development and content management, e-business, infrastructure and architecture
 Accountable for multi-million dollar budget to ensure that IT solutions are aligned with business requirements
 Prepared Labbaik corporate business plan and was responsible for technical and business-related feasibility studies
 Headed team to conduct due diligence to justify venture capital investment
 Conducted extensive research in establishing various IT-based solutions such as call centers, secure data transfer, RFID/Smart cards, online recruitment systems, and GIS
 Responsible for setting up Taqneen (IT entity) to provide IT products and services to several companies including Labbaik, Dyafat, Dar-Al-Ahdaf, Al-Kawader and Rasim

Feb 1998 - Oct 2001 Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Chief - Systems Engineering & Architecture

 Led Cost Center to research and recommend strategies and techniques for the effective development and delivery of business solutions
 Mandate was to facilitate, assist, enable and support the Systems Development department, consisting of more than 110 developers, by establishing benchmarks, standards, methodologies, metrics, tools, templates, techniques and best practices
 Focused on establishing effective infrastructure for corporate-wide e-commerce and to facilitate Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI)
 Established OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) strategy and standards, corporate Data Warehousing guidelines, and e-commerce / Web-enablement strategy
 Established business-oriented IT Metrics for most IT functions, to enhance quality and productivity and to help measure and contain costs
 Responsible for Data Administration and for establishing a central repository of data and process architectures. Served as airline representative on IATA IMC (Information Management Committee) Working Group on IT Architecture
 Led cost center team to achieve ISO 9002:2001 certification
Jun 1999-Mar 2000 Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Manager Corporate Year 2000 (Y2K) Office
 Mandate was to ensure corporate-wide Y2K readiness safely, on time and within budget for all aircraft, IT Systems, facilities and equipment worldwide
 Responsible for all corporate Year 2000 projects and involved in establishing and tracking Year 2000 Strategy, corporate and divisional plans, Business Continuity Planning and Supply Chain coverage for the organization
 Official airline representative at IATA Industry-wide Y2K meetings in Geneva/Brussels/Montreal