Almabani
General Contractors

Youssef Tohme serves as the Chairman of the Board of Almabani General Contractors LLC. In his capacity as head of the Executive Committee he holds directorship and executive position in the company’s activities and investments. In 2018 and at the onset of the global Pandemic, Youssef spearheaded a transformation at Almabani’ s corporate level working with several independent consulting firms to secure shareholder value and ensure business continuity and sustainability. Youssef served from 2013 to 2020 as a Member of the Board and Member of the Steering committee of Line 1 and Line 2 of the Riyadh Metro Project, a US$ 12 billion plus Contract. Youssef Joined Almabani in 2009 as Vice President and Board Member managing internal day to day issues, streamlining processes, and implementing best engineering practices. Before Joining Almabani, Youssef spent 10 years working in the Oil & Gas sector as Chief Executive Officer of Levant Oil S.A.L an international trading, importation, bulk storage, and distribution of refined petrochemicals company. Youssef was responsible for building the business bottom up, developing a storage terminal for gasoline, gasoil, and fuel oil some 55,000. metric tons of bulk storage capacity were built onshore with three offshore sealines. Youssef also pioneered the development of a trucking distribution and petrol station network for the company that exponentially grew the business turnover ten folds reaching an annual importation and sale of over 720,000. metric tons of refined product. Creating value for the shareholders and establishing the company as a major player in the Levant region. Youssef is the Chairman and Board Member of Mzaar Ski Resort Group of companies, a renowned summer and winter destination in Lebanon at an altitude of 1850 meters that consists of the Intercontinental Mzaar Hotel, sixteen ski lifts, 120 Km of ski and track and a real estate project with a footprint of 40 million square meters. Youssef is a permanent Board Member on the “Nehme & Therese Foundation” a private non-profit charity organization that helps the underprivileged come out of extreme poverty. The foundation has helped in the past 15 years in the circa of 100,000 families to lead honorable lives by giving them access to education, work opportunities, agricultural enablers, and healthcare. As well as an active investor in innovative technologies and renewable energy companies, Youssef serves as a Board member in a variety of businesses in the region.

Badr Al Zuhair is the President of the Board of Advisors of Almabani General Contractors LLC, a position he has served since 2013. Born in 1984, Badr received his BA in International Business and HRM at Regent’s University London EBS. Since 2011, Badr has personally managed his families wealth in which he oversees their assets which include banking, hospitality, hotels, and real estate which extend from the Middle East, Africa and Europe. He as well has served from 2011 until present day as the Director of Sultan Real Estate Saudi Arabia which owns the Adham Commercial Center as well as several lands in KSA.

Bandar Hasanain is presently Vice President for Administration of Almabani General Contractors, a position he has been recently promoted to. Born in 1977, Mr. Hasanain graduated from King Abdulaziz University Jeddah with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. His outstanding achievements and success in the various attained positions at Almabani were highly appreciated by the Executive Management and hence led him to his current position and responsibilities. Mr. Hasanain is recognized for his inter-communication, negotiation and strategic planning expertise, thereby nurturing and maintaining executive relationships through many varied engagements and successfully closing new business opportunities. In his prolonged Contracts experience, Engineer Hasanain has been able to safeguard Almabani’s rights with a record of accomplishments while ensuring the client’s satisfaction. He is a target-driven leader and has effectively championed numerous claims of Almabani. Besides his position, Mr. Hasanain has been appointed as a board member on several of Almabani’s joint venture projects and is overseeing the Saudi Talent Development Program. Prior to joining Almabani in 2006, Mr. Hasanain was responsible of several projects in the Ministry of Water and Electricity of Saudi Arabia. Engineer Hasanain is an approved mediator at the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and he is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

ALFRED R. HAKIM, Board Member / Chief Financial Officer Alfred Hakim is the CFO of Almabani – General Contractors, since 1988. In this position he oversees the Finance, Accounting, IT & the Systems Development Departments. He implements the company's financial strategy as approved by the Board and the company owners. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the company since 2014. Born in 1951, Alfred received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from the Universite Saint- Joseph in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1974. Prior to joining Almabani in 1981, he was a Corporate Banker for 8 years in both Societe Generale Bank and Citibank N.A. in Lebanon.

Mazen Altamimi is an accomplished and highly respected Senior Executive Director with a wealth of experience managing all business lines of a major Saudi bank, executing innovative strategies that have increased performance, maximized efficiency, and resolved crises, drawing on a successful background in Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Corporate Credit, Investment Banking and Structured Finance. He is a strong, resourceful and dedicated professional, with polished communication skills, authority, and integrity; a Trusted Adviser who builds strong, respectful relationships at a very senior level with Regulators, Boards, Executive Committees, Government Ministries, and Consultants (Bain, McKinsey, BCG) as well as UHNW and HNW clients. Currently, Mazen is Group Vice Chairman and Managing Director for the Almurjan Group, strategically leading, growing, and instituting corporate governance, developing group companies, contributing to their family office, overseeing operating companies, financial investments, and asset & liabilities management, and managing the group’s international investments Mazen joined Banque Saudi Fransi in 1989 and until July 2021 was Senior Executive Director – Institutional Banking Head, effective number 2 in the bank, managing all activities across the bank’s business units, and involved in all bank governance committees including the highest internal committee with the CEO known as the General Management Committee, as well as numerous others. Having taken the helm following a major crisis at the bank, Mazen spearheaded a full transformation of the corporate business including creation of a middle office operations division, working with 3 independent consulting firms to understand and properly allocate tasks, and change many senior staff. He balanced managing internal issues with the regulator as well as the Kingdom’s Anti-corruption drive whilst continuing to deliver shareholder value and ensuring business continuity. Prior to this, Mazen spent more than 14 years as Regional General Manager for the Western Region with c. 650 people and 35 Retail branches, as well as Corporate Banking, Retail Private Banking, Commercial Banking, Treasury, Trade Finance, Credit Administration, Remedial Management and Premises Administration. He represented the Bank’s top management internally as well as externally in the Western Region, and served on the Bank’s Senior Management Committee with daily interaction with the Regulator. In this role, Mazen led BSF to become the strongest relationship bank in the western region, with a quality relationship that maximized cross sell opportunities, served as an early-warning of imminent developing issues, and enabled the hiring of the best of staff who would benefit from his exceptional mentoring. At only 29 years of age, Mazen was promoted to Corporate Banking Division Manager from the Officer role he had held for nine years, and this gave him his first real opportunity to manage a sizeable team of highlytrained and remunerated officers handling over 400 corporate relationships, as well as managing the Profit and Loss of the division. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Richmond University (London – England), Mazen is renowned for his honesty and integrity, and has a broad portfolio of interests and board memberships in a variety of businesses across GCC countries, as well as his own businesses.

Mr. Antonio de Juan Brady has extensive experience advising in the public and private sectors in a wide range of regions: CIS (Russian Federation mainly), GCC (Saudi Arabia, and the UAE primarily), MENA (Lebanon), Europe (Luxembourg, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Italy and Liechtenstein primarily), the Americas (USA, and Venezuela mainly), and East Asia (Japan). His international experience is thanks to be advising, and negotiating on behalf of, individuals and corporations, in both, the public and private sectors, counseling primarily in commercial and litigation/non litigation/arbitration/settlement affairs therein. He has vast experience counseling to negotiate and implement contracts, mergers, acquisitions, transfers, participations, takeovers and similar transactions, as well as joint venture contracts and due diligence processes, and complex corporate restructurings. He has experience in counseling in financing and debt-restructuring transactions and in negotiating financing and refinancing agreements involving a wide range of capital structures, including NPL, real estate and corporate finance projects. He has extensive experience counseling international leading renowned private equity funds on complex sale/purchase agreements, and financing and refinancing transactions, as well as on their distressed investment strategies when necessary. He has over ten years’ experience in coordinating multidisciplinary teams and served in multiple leadership positions in different jurisdictions when handling the above-mentioned matters. He also advises large estates on their planning and restructuring qualifying as Manager “A” in numerous companies on their board of managers, and as Sole Manager in other various ones. Member of the Cuatrecasas Law Firm team for over ten years as a Lawyer in the Corporate and Litigation departments, Middle East Desk, Fund managing department, and Private Client-Wealth Management department (leading renowned International Law Firm operating in 13 countries and prominently established in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and a reference for national and international legal advice, for its values, innovation, rigor and compromise of all its members). Member of the Lawyers Bar Association of the Balearic Islands since 2011. Mr. Antonio de Juan Brady holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain, and holds an LL.M (Master of Laws) degree from ISDE (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economia, Madrid, Spain) in International Law, Forign Trade and International Relations, along with an ISDE diploma on studies in US Law at Columbia Univerity of Law, New York, USA. Fluent in the following languages: Spanish, English, Russian.

Ms. Rania Nashar joined the Public Investment Fund (PIF) as a Senior Advisor to the Governor in February 2021, where she advises His Excellency Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of PIF, in areas of Business and Governance, drawing on more than 20 years of professional experience in the banking industry. In addition, she is the Head of Compliance & Governance at the Public Investment Fund and the Chairman of The Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Company.
Prior to joining PIF, Ms. Nashar served as the CEO of Samba Financial Group (SFG), making her the first Saudi woman to lead a major banking group in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She first joined SFG in 1997 at the start of her banking career, where she served in various positions across different divisions of the Group and played a pivotal role in bringing vital changes and developments to SFG’s business sectors.
Ms. Nashar also holds various other leadership and advisory positions. During her time at SFG, she served as Vice Chair of the SambaCapital Board and as a Board member of Samba Bank Limited in Pakistan, Samba Global Markets Limited. She also served as a board member at Institute of International Finance “IIF” in USA.
In March 2019, the Board of the Capital Market Authority of Saudi Arabia (CMA) appointed Ms. Nashar as Vice Chair of the CMA Advisory Committee. Ms. Nashar also serves as Board member of STC, the Saudi Stock Exchange, the National Center for Performance Measurement, Saudi Space Commission and Saudi Polo Federation. Also, she chairs the Audit Committee at FII.
Some of Ms. Nashar’s other major achievements throughout her career include becoming the first Saudi women to lead the audit and risk review functions for all business and operations areas at SFG, including investment business, corporate and individual banking, and risk management. She is also the first woman in the GCC financial sector to lead a compliance group and first Saudi woman to be named a certified anti-money laundering specialist by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) in the USA. During KSA G20 Presidency Rania chaired the B20 Women in Business Action Council and G20 EMPOWER Alliance. Currently, she is serving as a Co-Chair in Action Council for B20 Women in Business
Ms. Nashar holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in computer science and technology from Kind Saud University. She has been recognized by Forbes on multiple occasions for her professional achievements, being named among the Top 100 Powerful Women in the World in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Head of Planning & Operations, MENA Investment – Public Investment Fund. Yasser Al Dawood has been the Head of Investment Planning and Governance Department of MENA Investments in Public Investment Fund (PIF) since 2021. Overall his 17 plus years of career, he gained experience and exposure in both the Government and Private sectors. He started his career as a project planning engineer at Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) and later held various positions. Most notably, He was The General Director of Strategy and PMO in Ministry of Commerce and Investment between 2015 and 2016. And General Director of Vision Realization Office between 2016 and 2017, he was appointed as Deputy Minister for Planning and Information in Ministry of Transport and Logistics Services between 2018 and 2019. As of 2020, Eng. Aldawood has taken over as the head of the Project Management Office and was appointed Head of Investment Planning and Governance Department of MENA Investments in 2021. Yasser Al Dawood holds key positions on several boards of directors for companies and government committees. He is a Member of the Board of Directors in Almabani, in addition to the Saudi Public Transport Company “SAPTCO” and The Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company “SALIC” and other companies. He was a Member of Board of Directors at Saudi Company for Exchanging Digital Information “Tabadul”. Also a Member of Board of Directors of Riyadh Airports Company, A Member of Board of Directors at King Fahad Causeway Authority and a Member of Board of Directors of the General Authority of civil aviation addition to several other memberships. Eng.Aldawood holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University Of Portsmouth (UK) and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from King Saud University (KSA).