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Board of directors
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 Eng. Loay Hisham Nazer, Chairman Eng. Nazer is the Founder and Chairman of the Nazer Group and was elected to serve for the year 2006-2007 as Chairman of the International Board of Directors of the Young Presidents Organisation, a global non-profit organisation of Chairmen and CEOs under the age of 50. He was also selected by the World Economic Forum as a member of the Young Global Leaders.
Eng. Nazer was elected and continues to serve as the Vice Chairman of the National Insurance Committee at the Saudi Chamber of Commerce in 2003. He is also a member of the Council of Cooperative Health Insurance. He also served as Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee at the Jeddah Chamber in 2002. From 1995 to 1998, Eng. Nazer was a Board Member of the Harvard Institute for the Social and Economic Policy Board in the Middle East and was Chairman of its Executive Committee.
He lectures regionally on globalization and the impact on regional economic development. He has been quoted many times in the Western press on issues related to Saudi Arabia and has been interviewed on CNN’s Business Today. Eng. Nazer received a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1987, followed in 1989 by his Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California in Los Angeles. |
Mr. Tal Hisham Nazer, Managing Director
Mr. Nazer was the Customer Service & Operations Director for BME. Before that, he worked for the National Commercial Bank, ORYX CAPITAL, and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Nazer has strong ties to the business community in Saudi Arabia and he is currently a board member in the following bodies: Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry; National Centre for Health Insurance Standards and Arabian Medical Marketing Co. Ltd.
He is also the Vice Chairman of the Nazer Group. Mr. Nazer holds an MBA degree from Wharton School, Pennsylvania and obtained a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in December 1996. |
Mr. Benjamin David Jemphrey Kent, Director
Mr. Kent is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales ("ICAEW") awarded 1991 and has been Finance Director of BUPA International Businesses since November 2007. His role gives him finance responsibility for BUPA’s businesses in Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, and the US, as well as BUPA International (BUPA’s expatriate insurer) and China (BUPA’s Representative Office).
Mr. Kent is also a Board member of BUPA International Insurance Services Ltd, and was the BUPA Group Financial Controller for 2 years before moving to BUPA International Businesses. Mr. Kent graduated from Oxford University with a Master of Arts (MA) in Mathematics in 1987. |
Dr. Damien Vincent Marmion, Director
Dr. Marmion qualified as a doctor in 1991 from University College and Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine London and obtained an MBA from the City University UK in 1994.
Dr. Marmion has been the Managing Director of BUPA Asia Limited since 2003 and prior to relocating to Hong Kong, held the position of Development Director of BUPA International in the UK. During his 9 years at BUPA UK, his key roles have included quality assurance in hospitals, health care purchasing and business development. |
Mr. William Stephen Ward, Director
Mr. Ward is the Chief Operating Officer of BUPA’s International Businesses since 2006. He obtained the Company Secretary qualification (ACIS) in 1987 from the Middlesex Business School, Middlesex University, London. Mr. Ward has completed several Management and Executive Programmes offered by London School of Economics, London Business School and Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, USA.
Mr. Ward took on the role of Managing Director, BUPA International in 1998, responsible for BUPA International’s worldwide trading activities, with offices in London, Brighton, Hong Kong, Chicago, Hartford, Dubai, Cairo and Malta. |
Mr. Zuhair Hamed Fayez, Director
Mr. Fayez is the President of Zuhair Fayez Partnership, Consultants, Architecture, Engineering, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Information Systems which he established in 1975. It is now ranked with the most eminent consultancies in the world, and has offices in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dhahran and Cairo.
Mr. Fayez is serving as a member of the Provincial Council of Makkah Region for four years until 2009. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dar Al-Hekma Private College for Girls in Jeddah, member at the Saudi Council of Engineers, a member of the College of Architecture and Planning Advisory Board, University of Colorado, USA, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Faculty of Environmental Design, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah and a member of the Consulting Committee for the College of Environmental Design, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran.
Mr. Fayez was appointed to the membership of the 1st Session of the Consultative Council of Saudi Arabia in 1993. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Colorado in 1970 and 1971 respectively. |
Mr. Aamer Abdullah Alireza, Director
Mr. Alireza is the Managing Director of the Services Group part of the Xenel Group of Companies and a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Alireza is also the CEO of Saudi Trade & Export Development Company and a member of the Board of Directors of its parent company, Saudi Industrial Services Company (a Saudi Joint Stock company), in addition to being a board member of SAMA Airlines.
Prior to this, Mr. Alireza worked for OILspace in the capacity of Managing Director of Marketing for the Middle East Operations and prior to that held a number of positions at Chevron Overseas Petroleum, including Marketing Manager and Business Development Manager.
Mr. Alireza graduated from Pitzer College in California with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science in 1994. He had also joined various Management Executive programs at the University of California - Berkley, Harvard, and Stanford Universities in 1996, 2000 and 2003 respectively. | |
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