APM Terminals Bahrain announces departure of MD

APM Terminals Bahrain, the port operator of Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP), announced the departure of Managing Director, Susan Hunter. “Hunter has decided to pursue an opportunity outside of the company and will leave effective April 30. The Board has started the process to select a successor and a further announcement will be made in due course,” APM Terminals Bahrain said in a statement. Hunter joined APM Terminals Bahrain in January 2019. During her tenure as Managing Director she advanced a strategic and transformational agenda for the company, strengthening the management team, and promoting existing talent.

“The operational and commercial performance has steadily improved during Mrs. Hunter’s leadership and Khalifa bin Salman Port is well positioned to continue to deliver exceptional value for the Bahrain, its employees and shareholders in the years to come. Notably, Mrs. Hunter and her team responded with great urgency and determination to face the unique challenge of Covid-19,” said David Skov, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Hunter was previously based in the UAE as the Global Head of the Operational Excellence Programme for APM Terminals.

Al Mutawa

Al Mutawa becomes Ducab’s first Emirati CEO

Ducab Group, a leading UAE-based manufacturer of cables and cabling products, has appointed Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al Mutawa as the new Group CEO, the first Emirati to hold the position.

Al Mutawa, soon after completing his industrial engineering degree from the US, joined Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and in 2015, he became part of the Ducab family and served in several position including as chief commercial officer at Ducab Group. Most recently he served as CEO of Ducab Cable Business.

He succeeds Andrew Shaw, who led the group for the last 13 years and is now taking up an advisory role in the company’s board. On its first Emirati Group CEO appointment, Ducab said this was the result of a carefully planned succession strategy in line with its UAE national development programme.

Lauding the appointment, Chairman Dr Ahmad Bin Hassan Al Shaikh said: “Since Al Mutawa joined Ducab, he has demonstrated great leadership qualities and a passion for developing the company into a world-class UAE manufacturing enterprise.”

Speed

Innovera Group appoints new group CEO to spearhead growth

Innovera Group, a leading EdTech, technology manufacturing, application development and healthcare software development company based in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has announced the appointment of Robert Speed as its Group CEO. In this new role, Speed will spearhead the group’s strategic expansion across the region and beyond, in line with the exponential growth seen across the EdTech sector.

Speed wields a 15-year track record in operational and strategic leadership, engineering go-to market expansion, and fostering tactical partnerships that deliver significant value. He has served in various senior management roles — most recently as the Vice President for the MEA region at EdTech company Blackboard. Prior to this, he served as the head of the ME region for Promethean, a leading K-12 EdTech company.

“Robert’s extensive experience in the EdTech sector, coupled with his regional and global business development skills, will help us strengthen our existing international partnerships and foster brand new ones,” noted Ahmed Fekry, Group Chairman and Founder of Innovera.

Scullion

New CEO takes over as Centrifuges Un-limited as it rebrands as OSSO

OSSO, formerly Centrifuges Un-limited, the specialist fluid temperature control and separation solutions provider, has appointed James Scullion as CEO to spearhead the company’s international growth.

The rebrand has taken place at an important juncture as it aims to deliver an ambitious growth plan, expanding its oil and gas presence on-and-offshore, whilst also broadening into wider energy and industrial markets, a statement said.

At OSSO, Scullion will oversee the delivery of an ambitious five year strategy that aims to aggressively triple turnover, as well as significantly investing in equipment globally across its operations. Scullion brings significant experience in international expansion from his time at Ferguson Group where he supported the development of the modular workspace and accommodation business.

John Dick, Business Development Director at OSSO added: “Our vision is clear, and we have the team who will take us forward through 2021 and beyond. It’s not every day that you get both the resource and investment that we have to truly accelerate the growth of the business and its people.”

The announcement follows the acquisition of Centrifuges Un-limited by Linton Investments in late 2019.