Rashad Kanbar, Chief Strategy Officer

Rashad Kanbar

Chief Strategy Officer

Confidential

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Computer Science
Expérience
34 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :34 years, 2 Mois

Chief Strategy Officer à Confidential
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • Je travaille ici depuis décembre 2019

Head of Strategy Development & Delivery
• Overall city strategy development
• Building & operating Strategy Development & Delivery Office
• Rationalizing, integrating and supervising 400+ projects on city level with over $300 Bn value
• Building a full economic model to drive the city development and monitoring
• Establishing and managing city financial framework

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) à Tanmiyat Global Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • mars 2018 à décembre 2019

Tanmiyat Global is a five (5) Billion Dirhams real estate development company that was established in the United Arab Emirates managing the development in a number of elite projects in Dubai (business bay, DIFC and Living Legends). It includes a number of companies in the real estate development, sales and brokerage and facility management and services.

In the capacity of a full time CEO, I managed the turnaround and restructuring of a group of companies in the real estate development sector in Dubai. The group was struggling due to bad market conditions, long term management challenges and financial difficulties. Serious delay in projects handover and funding are few obstacles among many.
The mixed use developments included two commercial towers, twelve residential towers, five hundred villas, golf course, international school, a mall, a hotel, a nursery, retail areas and boulevard, major infrastructure in terms of power, roads, facilities and sewer treatment.

I took over the role of the CEO in addition to a turn around and re-structuring lead. It included:
• Internal business re-structuring track of the company and projects from a business modeling and structure
• Legal and consolidation track
• Financial track
• Operations and management track

Over the course of the year, we managed to achieve:
• Significant progress of construction and handover
• Product development and re-structuring in addition to sales increase
• Professional and solid internal structure in terms of organizations, processes, data room, documentation, financial and systems
• Legal resolution of a significant number of cases
• Debt re-structuring, funding and structured financing for the projects
• Management and board of directors reporting systems and dashboards

Managing Director à impaQta Management Advisory Services
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • mars 2004 à avril 2018

impaQta is a boutique advisory house that focuses on serving elite clients in terms of business, management and consulting domains.
• In few years, I developed impaQta from a 500k USD of revenue and 3 consultants company into a 20 Million USD firm with 60+ consultants and 3 offices around the region and from business planning and general consulting into building economic cities.
• We are currently building businesses around the region in hundreds of millions of dollars helping our clients achieve their investment objectives on mega scale
• We have significant footprint in real estate development, healthcare, economic development and education
• I was the lead of the development and deal making team of an economic city in Northern region of Saudi Arabia. The project value was 12 Billion USD and will generate 30, 000 new jobs
• I led the bidding team responsible for building the winning bid for (fiber optics country backbone, landline operator, and a mobile operator) the team was over a hundred people in three separate bids and included multinational partners and operators.
• In a capacity of an interim CEO, I managed the transformation of an industrial and trading family owned conglomerate. The change program was targeted to turnaround the group from losses into profit in addition to implementing overall change from a standard family business into a structured corporate. My responsibility was to build all project teams, manage their work, manage different consulting teams, re-structure financial debts with banks in addition to daily CEO and BOD duties. The transformation program led to bringing the group from 3% in losses into 7% in profit in less than 18 months, increase of 35% in revenue (120 Million to 170 Million).

Country Manager à Schlumberger
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • juin 2002 à mars 2004

θ Market development, penetration and positioning
θ Business Development for key government and private accounts
θ Cross-industry and cross offerings responsibility
θ Delivery and operations management
θ P&L responsibility and ownership
θ Practice development and growth
θ High level program management

Consulting Senior Manager à Accenture (Andersen Consulting)
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • octobre 1997 à juin 2002

θ Managed many programs/projects and initiatives within the firm
θ Client relationship management and business development activities for key accounts in different industries
θ Integration management
θ Process innovation
θ Customer Relationship Management
θ Supply Chain
θ Member of the Communication and High Tech Market Unit.
θ Developed and monitored resources/products market unit business plans (key role in execution)
θ Developed tools and methods for project management, implementation and improvement
θ Led a number of training workshops, seminars and courses
θ Established a Program Management Office Standards (multiple projects management) in addition to managing a major launching and training activities

Projects Manager and Acting Development Director à POS Tech.
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • mai 1995 à octobre 1997

Projects Manager and Acting Development Director, Participated in the Company Strategy Development, Business Planning / Development and Marketing Strategy. Managed the company operations during the last year of employment.

Systems and Operations Manager à World Care - American Telemedicine International
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • août 1994 à avril 1995

World Care - American Telemedicine International / Subsidiary of Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA), Systems and Operations Manager. Major participation in WAN / LAN implementation and Technical Infrastructure. Managed the operations of the branch during the whole period (starting from establishing the branch up to setting up operations and work flows)

Development department manager à SCORS – GMA, VAR of IBM, Retailing Systems
  • Arabie Saoudite - Jeddah
  • mars 1990 à juillet 1994

Major development project with a team of 15 people. Full commercial solution (GL, Finance, Payroll, Personnel, FA, AP, AR, Inventory and stock control, etc) (Project Manager

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Computer Science
  • à King AbdulAziz University
  • mai 1993

Specialties & Skills

Management Consulting
Integration
Market Development
- Business development and client relati
- Development Management and Planning
- Business integration management and Pl
- Projects / Program Management, Plannin
Executive Management
Business Management Consulting
corporate restructuring

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Delivering client value (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Saint Charles - Andersen Consulting - Accenture
Date de la formation:
January 1997
Business Integration (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Saint Charles - Andersen Consulting - Accenture
Date de la formation:
August 1998
Business Models and Blueprints (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Saint Charles - Andersen Consulting - Accenture
Date de la formation:
February 1999
Process Excellence (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Saint Charles - Andersen Consulting - Accenture
Date de la formation:
September 1998

Loisirs

  • Horse Riding