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As Executive Board Member – Emaar Properties PJSC, Ahmad Al Matrooshi oversees the day to day operations within Emaar including government affairs, media, public and community relations.

Al Matrooshi is the Chairman of Emrill Services LLC; Vice Chairman of Emaar Malls PJSC, member of the Consultation Committee for the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, a member of the Committee at UAE Council of UAE companies invested abroad. He holds memberships to a number of important organisations.

Prior to joining Emaar in November 2005, Al Matrooshi held the position of Chief Executive Officer at the government-run Dubai Development Board (DDB) for almost a decade. At the DDB, he ensured affordable housing and competitive financing rates to all residents across the Emirate. Before this move, Al Matrooshi was Deputy Director of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry for 14 years.

Born and brought up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Al Matrooshi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration and a Diploma in Property Management from NCFE – UK.

Irfan Sadiq has led the internal auditing division for Emaar for over six years. With 20 years of international and national auditing experience, Irfan’s core responsibilities include overseeing and reviewing the effectiveness of Emaar’s internal control environment, risk assessment and managing its corporate governance. The company’s multi-cultural talents, as well as the grand scale of its local and international projects, are what the passionate collaborator likes most about his job.

Before joining Emaar in 2014, Irfan served as the Executive Director of Ernst & Young’s Audit and Assurance Service in the UAE. Prior to that, he oversaw the audit and advisory services for one of the most significant “Big 4” firms in his home nation of Pakistan. Aside from managing the daily operations of the firm, he helped expand the company’s presence in Canada and the United States.

A family man, avid traveller and fan of culinary arts, Irfan holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Irfan is also a member of several international accounting and auditing associations. These include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the United Kingdom’s Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) in the US. He is also a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA).

Born and raised in Dubai, Ms. Maitha Al Dossari leads Strategic Projects at Emaar Properties. She is responsible for overseeing several highly strategic projects related to the organisation. Ms. Al Dossari drives the operations and administration of Emaar Entertainment’s various leisure assets including Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, KidZania®, Dubai Ice Rink and Reel Cinemas. She also works on Emaar Retail’s expansion plans in key emerging markets, in line with the geographic growth of Emaar.

Ms. Maitha Al Dossari thrives on enhancing customer satisfaction and spearheading initiatives that rapidly address their concerns. Her favourite part of the job is being challenged to turn around critical problem areas and executing strategies to achieve major business transformations and efficiencies.
Ms. Al Dossari also oversees project progress and identifies opportunities to accelerate the work process, as well as monitoring quality, reviewing customer complaints and resolving these promptly.
In parallel, Ms. Maitha Al Dossari spearheads the Procurement, Administration & Logistics of Emaar Properties PJSC and Pre-Opening Procurement of Emaar Hospitality Group. She has extensive experience in procurement, logistics and operations covering various business functions including process optimisation, policies, procedures, auditing and cost control.

Ms. Al Dossari redesigned top talent and leadership programmes, with a robust selection criteria now based on 100+ performance achievements. She also led a company-wide organisational restructuring & evaluation to propose leaner and efficiency-driven structure.

Ms. Al Dossari directed transformation of recruitment talent engine, business performance management framework, grading structure, year-end appraisal process and people engagement programs.

Ms. Al Dossari joined Emaar Properties in 2000 as the head of Emaar Entertainment, a subsidiary that focuses on providing premium leisure experiences. Ms. Al Dossari has established her career by being positively paranoid about the happiness and satisfaction of the customer with all products and services offered by Emaar. She constantly strives to deliver excellence, while her talent shines through every project she takes on, reflecting the future and flawless quality and service.

A graduate in Business Administration and Finance, Ms. Al Dossari also holds an Executive MBA and Programme for Executive Development (PED) – General Management at IMD (International Institute for Management Development) Business Programmes, Switzerland. Ms. Maitha Al Dossari has been consistently recognised by international media as one of the world’s most powerful Arab women.

Hesham Heikal is the Chief Financial Officer of Emaar. A transformational leader, Hesham has more than 28 years of diverse experience, gained from the financial, operational, investment, and board-level roles he has held in the Middle East and USA.

During his career, Hesham’s responsibilities have covered areas such accounting, corporate finance, general management, and overseeing corporate support functions such as legal, procurement, administration, human capital, and information technology.

He spent the first 15 years of his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he worked in Cairo, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and with the firm’s practice in Silicon Valley, California. By the time he left PwC, Hesham had become a Partner in the firm, leading its Assurance practice in Abu Dhabi, covering several industries, with a particular focus on real estate, manufacturing (predominantly FMCG), telecommunications, and technology.

In 2015, he was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer of Dubai Properties Group, a position he held until 2019. His responsibilities included overseeing finance, strategy, contracts and procurement, information technology, and cost control. In addition to his main role, Hesham served on the Board of Directors of some of the group’s joint ventures in the UAE and Bahrain.

Before joining Emaar, Hesham was the Group Chief Financial Officer of Alrajhi Holding Group, a multi-billion-dollar Saudi Arabian conglomerate with investments in industrial, infrastructure, building solutions, contracting, financial services, and real estate. In that role, he reported to the Group Chairman and served as member on the Board of Directors of the group’s industrial, building solutions and contracting sectors, as well as two industrial joint ventures. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee and Audit Committee of a joint venture.

Hesham is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from Colorado, USA, and holds an MBA from London Business School.

A passionate and highly ambitious technology professional with more than 18 years of extensive experience in technology leadership across the retail, ecommerce, hospitality, and real estate sectors – Binoo Joseph is the Head of Technology for Emaar.

As part of this role, Binoo is responsible for overseeing technology transformation and operations across the Emaar group, while driving his team’s overarching ambition to position Emaar as the most digitally advanced company in the real estate, hospitality, malls, and entertainment industries.

Under his leadership, Emaar has successfully restructured multiple technology teams into a single centralised team for the entire group. Additionally, Binoo has played a key role in establishing the company’s Technology Development Centre in India. He also leads Emaar Technologies, which offers technology consultancy and services on ICT and digital platforms.

Prior to joining Emaar, Binoo ran scaled technology transformation programmes across India, the US, UK, Europe, China, Singapore, and the Middle East for leading organisations such as Wipro and Tesco PLC. He was also involved in setting up and running an ecommerce digital venture in Singapore as the Chief Technology Officer and, more recently, was the Chief Information Officer in another major real estate group.

Binoo holds a bachelor’s degree in Technology from the University of Kerala, along with an MBA in Systems from IIT Delhi. An avid tech enthusiast, he is actively involved with technology start-ups and leverages the ecosystem for innovative initiatives. Moreover, he is active in the wider technology community and has delivered keynote speeches at leading tech conferences across the globe.

A highly skilled sales leader with an entrepreneurial mind-set, Dhiraj Chhabra is leading the Sales team and operations for Emaar.

With over 18 years of experience in real estate, aviation and BFSI, Dhiraj brings extensive knowledge and expertise to the role. He has repeatedly proven himself as an exceptional leader, capable of scaling up sales and effectively marketing multi-cultural organisations across various industries, to build strong foundations for businesses to achieve fast-paced growth.

At Emaar, Dhiraj Chhabra is responsible for driving growth for the business while maintaining a strong focus on customer needs.

Prior to joining Emaar, Dhiraj, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from IIM Lucknow, successfully led sales functions across the UAE, UK and India for organisations such as Sobha Realty and Lodha Developers.

A proven leader and expert strategist, Alma Au Yeung leads Emaar Corporate Marketing bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to the role, with over 25 years of commercial and leadership success, including more than a decade of senior management roles.

Alma is responsible for managing all marketing strategies and activities across Emaar Properties, Emaar Malls, Emaar Hospitality Group (EHG), and Emaar Entertainment, as well as supporting Emaar International.

Having achieved industry-wide success in challenging, goal-oriented environments in both her native Hong Kong and Dubai, Alma joined EHG in 2007. She has since earned a glowing reputation for her extensive expertise in strategic planning, identifying opportunities and driving incremental revenues across business units.

With over 20 years’ experience in finance, accounting, budgeting, planning and reporting, Sunil Grover leads the finance team at Emaar, joining the company in 2008. His favourite part of the job is daily decision-making and solving conundrums.

Grover is a tri-lingual Certified Public Accountant from American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a certified Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). His focus on continuous self-improvement has provided him with a steady career growth at Emaar spanning over two decades, ever since joining as a fresh graduate.

When not busy at work, Sunil Grover enjoys spending time with his family.

A highly accomplished senior finance leader with over 16 years of extensive experience in finance functions, Pawan Chindalia is the Head of Finance for Emaar Malls Group and is responsible for leading and overseeing the group’s finance team.

Pawan joined Emaar in 2011 and rose through the ranks, working with Emaar Community Management and Emaar Development PJSC, before taking up his current role. Throughout his career, he has continuously proven his strengths in business re-engineering, internal control, risk management, and driving financial performance, while also analysing complex data to facilitate effective decision-making strategies with the leadership team.

A natural problem-solver, Pawan consistently embraces new challenges and demonstrates exceptional leadership skills when managing people from different backgrounds. In doing so, he always maintains a clear focus on planning, executing and meeting deliverables.

During his decade-long tenure at Emaar, he has spearheaded several projects and initiatives with business teams to augment revenue and cash flows. Prior to joining Emaar, he worked with Damac Properties and GE Money.

Pawan is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and an honours degree in Commerce from the University of Calcutta.

Driven by impact, positive customer feedback and results-oriented operational and financial success, Hadi Badri has been part of the Emaar family for five years. Educated at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, Hadi plays a vital role in leading Emaar’s international real estate business and its acclaimed fashion e-commerce website, Namshi.com.

In his role, Hadi aims to shine a light on Emaar’s traditional brick and mortar services, which are currently offered in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, India, and the United States. The passionate team leader aims to continue to steer and lead the company’s vast and rapidly evolving digital offering.

The eager collaborator explains that celebrating great results with his colleagues and creating memorable experiences for Emaar’s guests are two of the most cherished parts of his role.

Prior to joining the multinational real estate development company, the family man previously offered his expertise to Dubai International Capital, The Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C., and Bain & Company. His career portfolio includes working alongside the Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, in creating strategies for Think Tank Dubai.

Mr. Sohail Baig joined Emaar Pakistan in April 2019. He currently oversees all aspects of business operations for Emaar Pakistan.

Prior to joining Emaar, Mr. Baig was the Chief Financial Officer for Unilever Pakistan. During his 16-year tenure at Unilever, he has gained extensive Finance and Business experience in both developed and developing markets.

In 2017/18, under Mr. Baig’s leadership, Unilever Pakistan posted double-digit growth and record profitability despite a challenging economic and political environment. This was recognised through various accolades including Unilever’s ‘Global Compass’ Award for the best-performing company.

His diverse professional experiences include Business Partnering, Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis, Controller, Financial Shared Services, Global Internal Audit and Supply Chain roles across various markets.

Mr. Baig joined Unilever as a Management Trainee and has held various country, regional and global finance leadership roles with complex business portfolios and large teams in Singapore, Netherlands and Pakistan.

He holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi and is a member of the CFA Institute – a global association of investment professionals in the USA.

Mr. Rahal Laghroudi joined Emaar in 2006. He played a vital role in leading finance at Emaar Morocco where he spearheaded the overall financial planning for the group, as well as liaising with banks and other financial institutions for project-based finance requirements.

Since December 2012, Mr. Laghroudi has been overseeing the overall operations of Emaar Morocco.

Mr. Laghroudi is responsible for monitoring the market environment, identifying new opportunities and developing strategies to expand Emaar Morocco’s customer base. He also leads the optimization of profitability and end-to-end customer management.

Mr. Laghroudi is also responsible for implementation new sales, marketing and administrative protocols to monitor key performance indicators of Emaar Morocco.

Previously, Mr. Laghroudi served as a Finance and Administration Director with Bicha Group, a private group operating in the real estate and food industry. His responsibilities included financial and tax planning, budgeting, forecasting and process optimizing of the group.

In the initial stages of his career, Mr. Laghroudi worked with Brasseries du Maroc Group as Head of Accounting and Finance Department. He also served for Ernst & Young Morocco as Senior Audit Manager.

He holds a diploma in Information Technology from EST and acquired a Finance and Management degree from ENCG and Chartered Professional Accountancy from ISCAE Casablanca, Morocco.

Mr. Akash Veerwani is a highly accomplished senior finance leader with over two decades of extensive experience in large multinationals. He joined Emaar International in January 2019.

He has a proven ability to seamlessly partner with senior stakeholders to create a compelling vision and strategy. Other hallmarks of his leadership skills include robust planning and performance management, active ownership, strong functional and systems capability, integrity and controllership, as well as adeptly leading large cross-cultural/functional teams. Along with his commercial acumen, Mr. Veerwani also has extensive experience in internal controls, finance and compliance framework.

He previously worked in various finance leadership roles in Mondelez International including Category Finance Director for EEMEA region, where he took ownership and ensured successful delivery of financial commitments with significant margin improvements across the portfolio. He also served as Global Finance Director for setting up contemporary and world-class Center of Excellence for Financial planning and analysis function. He has led various finance streams in his 12 years’ experience with Mondelez with regional and global responsibilities.

He has also worked with Al Futtaim Group and Pannell Kerr Forster prior to joining Mondelez.

He is a Chartered Accountant from India, a commerce graduate from Mumbai University and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor, USA.

Mark is a veteran hospitality professional with over two decades of international experience. In 2007, he moved to Dubai, joining two of Dubai’s most respected hotels – Grosvenor House Dubai and Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa, before joining Emaar Hospitality Group in 2014 as Hotel Manager of Armani Hotel Dubai. He was subsequently promoted to General Manager.

Under his leadership, Armani Hotel Dubai achieved several global recognitions, including 27 service-related accolades in 2018.

Mark has also managed the iconic flagship hotel, Address Downtown, and other Emaar Downtown Hotels such as Address Fountain Views, Address Sky Views, Palace Downtown and Vida Residences.

Mark was promoted to his current role as Head of Hospitality in January 2021.

Mark Holds a BA (Hons) in Hospitality Management from the University of Central England in Birmingham, UK. He has worked at some of London’s most prestigious hotels, where he spent 15 years developing his experience and career, also attending several professional development programmes.

He is actively involved in charity work and fundraising through his love for endurance sports, including marathon running. Mark is also the President of Dubai Lankans Rugby Sports Club, an avid diver, and is actively involved in developing young talent in the industry.

A passionate and highly skilled legal professional with more than 17 years of invaluable experience, Nesreen Bashir is the Head of Legal at Emaar Hospitality Group.

Nesreen graduated in London with an LLB (Hons), Legal Practice Course Diploma and Diploma in Real Estate Law and is a member of the UK Law Society. Prior to joining Emaar, Nesreen worked at Eversheds Sutherland in UK.

She moved to Dubai in 2008 and joined Emaar, and set up the legal department for Emaar Hotels and Resorts and Emaar Hospitality Group. In 2015 she set up the legal department for Dubai Opera LLC and established Dubai Opera’s legal templates and continued to provide legal assistance until 2019.

Nesreen also heads legal support for Rove Hotels LLC and Rove Hospitality LLC since 2014 and in 2019 became Company Secretary for Rove Hotels LLC and Rove Hospitality LLC. In addition, Nesreen is Company Secretary for Emaar Hospitality Group LLC and Emaar UAQ Hotels LLC.

Originally from Lebanon, Zeina Dagher has spent the last decade leading and expanding Emaar’s increasingly popular entertainment sector. One of Zeina’s core responsibilities includes implementing strategic business plans, which aim to contribute to the continued business growth and profitability of the company’s entertainment projects.

The passionate team leader is responsible for ensuring complete customer satisfaction at all of Emaar’s attractions, including Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, KidZania, Dubai Ice Rink, Dubai Opera and the much-loved LED light show displayed on the iconic Burj Khalifa. The company’s fast-paced and dynamic entertainment offering, as well as the feedback received from her colleagues and customers, are what Zeina enjoys most about her job.

Holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and an MBA with a specialization in Marketing and International Business, Zeina is able to steer and readily contribute to the growth of the brand’s entertainment services and improve upon the experiences offered to guests.

Mr. Arif Alharmi Albastaki joined Amlak Finance in 2007, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and experience from over 18 years in senior positions at leading international and domestic financial institutions.

Mr. Arif also serves as a member on the Board of Directors of a number of local and regional companies.

Mr. Ali H Odeh joined the Emaar Group in 2006.

Mr. Odeh is responsible for leading the growth initiatives of the Dubai-based Turner International Middle East Ltd LLC in programme, project and construction management across the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Subcontinent.

He has over 29 years of experience in project construction and has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).