| Resumes of Board Members |
 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.
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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 with 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. 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. |
Dr. Mohammed Akef Al Maghrabi
Dr. Al-Maghraby is the founder and Chairman of the Magrabi Eye and Ear Hospitals and Centers (32 total) in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Each year, this network of eye hospitals provides quality eye care to 900,000 patients and performs over 100,000 sight-preserving surgeries. He has also founded seven non-profit eye hospitals and centers in Bangladesh, North Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Treatment and surgery are available for poor patients in all these hospitals free of charge.
Dr. Al-Maghraby has supported the training of eye care professionals from the Middle East in his hospitals and centers, and has sponsored numerous physicians from the Middle East and African for one or two-year fellowships in the United States and Europe.
He also founded the Al Noor Foundation (first non-governmental, non-profit organization for prevention of blindness) in the Middle East, and the Middle East Journal of Ophthalmology, which is the only official journal for the Pan Arab Middle East and African regions.
Dr. Al-Maghraby is also the Founder and Honorary President for Life of the Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO… previously PAACO).
He is the Vice-President of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO), the executive body for the International Federation of Ophthalmological Society (IFOS). He is also the Chairman of the Supranational Organization Committee of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO).
Dr. Al-Maghraby is a Board Member of the Future Foundation Housing in Egypt, Board Member of the Egyptian Fund for Social Development for the Council of Ministers, Member of the Board of Trustees, British University of Egypt, Member of the Board of Trustees, Nile University of Egypt, and Chairman of the Board of Distant Learning University of Egypt. He founded and donated the Magrabi International College of Nursing in Egypt.
Dr. Al-Maghraby is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Saudi Institute of Health Services (SIHS), and the Founder & Vice-Chairman of EBSAR Foundation for Rehabilitation of Visually Impaired (for no profit organization) in Saudi Arabia.
His great concern for Prevention of Blindness in undeveloped countries is obvious and also instrumental in the formation of the International Federation of Eye Banks. Dr. Al-Maghraby personally donated six eye banks to different Arab and east European countries. He also endowed a chair for prevention of blindness at the Wilmer Eye Institute, and the School of Hygiene and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Al-Maghraby is the Chairman of the Magrabi Medical Group headquartered in Saudi Arabia, comprising of Magrabi Opticals retail chain and AMICO for medical equipments in the Middle East. He is also the Chairman of the Board, El-Mansour & El-Maghraby Investment and Development Company, Egypt.
He played an important and significant role in transferring new technologies in ophthalmology from western countries to the Middle East, and the first to introduce intra-ocular lens implantation, refractive surgery, and the use of Excimer laser in the Middle East.
Because of his initiative, the inception of the annual International Blindness Prevention Award for the American Academy of Ophthalmology was materialized.
Dr. Al-Maghraby also holds many memberships in ophthalmological associations and societies, to include the Task Force for “Vision 2020: Right to sight” by WHO, international committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology; and former member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
He operated and lectured in 23 countries all over the world and has 25 publications to his credit.
His many international awards and recognition include the XXVI International Congress of Ophthalmology Award for Outstanding Contributions to World Ophthalmology, 1990; the Edward Maumenee International Award, 1991; the Fellowship ad Hominem Award-1994, the 1994 International Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology of the Royal Hawaiian Eye Foundation, and the 1994 Honorary Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Further, he was awarded the Shield for Outstanding Work in Humanitarian Causes, from the Red Cross, United Arab Emirates in 1997; the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 by the International Society of Refractive Surgery; the Tunisian Ophthalmological Society Gold Medal–2000, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Dean’s Medal–2000. He was chosen Physician of the Year in the Arab World by the International Public Opinion Association and was also awarded the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Dean’s Medal – 2000. He was also awarded the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) international award for Prevention of Blindness – 2002 and in the same year, was awarded the Golden Medal Award of the Moroccan Ophthalmological Society. In 2003, Dr. Al-Maghraby was awarded the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Senior Achievement Award.
Dr. Al-Maghraby was decorated with the Lion Badge of Honor by the President of Senegal in 1993; the Order of Merit, First Degree by the President of Niger in 1995, the Order of Merit by the late King of Jordan in 1997, the Order of the Two Niles, First Degree, by the President of Sudan in 1998, the Cedar of Lebanon by the President of Lebanon in 2001, decorated by the President of Egypt in 2003, also decorated by the President of Tunis in 2003, and was awarded the Golden Medal Award of the Algerian Ophthalmological Society in 2004. |
Mr. Anthony Frank Cabrelli, Director
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