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OQ Sees Top Executive Elected To GPCA’s Board Of Directors

Muscat: OQ saw one of their top executive officers, Ahmed al Jahdhami, CEO Downstream – to the Board of Directors of the Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association (GPCA); The Gulf region’s leading lobby for the chemical industries.
Al Jahdhami was elected during the 2021 Annual General Assembly Meeting of the GPCA, held in Dubai. The details of the remaining board members elected during the meeting are as follows: Yousef al Benyan, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC, was re-elected for a new three-year term as Chairman of the GPCA Board of Director. Dr Mohamed al Mulla was elected to the position of GPCA Vice Chairman. Ali Mohammed al Asiri, CEO, Chemanol; Abdel Hadi al Suhaimi, Executive President, S-Chem; Othman A al Ghamdi, President and CEO, PetroRabigh; Abdulrahman M Al Suwaidi, Managing Director and CEO, QAFCO; Mohammed Y al Qahtani, SVP Downstream, Saudi Aramco; and Abdullah Saif al Saadoon, CEO, Sipchem.
GPCA founding members who retained their seats on the Board are Yousef al Benyan, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC, Saudi Arabia; Dr Abdulrahman Jawahery, President, GPIC, Bahrain; Dr Mohamed al Mulla, Managing Director and CEO, QAPCO, Qatar; Hazeem al Suwaidi, CEO, Borouge, UAE; Naser Aldousari, CEO, EQUATE, Kuwait; Mutlaq al Azmi, CEO, PIC, Kuwait; Mutlaq al Morished, CEO, Tasnee, Saudi Arabia; and Abdullah al Hussaini, Executive VP – Marketing, Qatar Petroleum.
GPCA was established in 2006 to represent the downstream hydrocarbon industry in the Arabian Gulf. Today, the association voices the common interests of more than 250 member companies from the chemical and allied industries, accounting for over 95 per cent of chemical output in the GCC. The industry makes up the second largest manufacturing sector in the region, producing over $108 billion worth of products every year.
Commenting on the occasion, Dr Abdulwahab al Sadoun, Secretary-General, GPCA commented, “I am pleased to welcome the newly elected Members of the Board who bring decades of leadership experience acquired at the helm of some of the largest chemical and petrochemical companies in the GCC.
Their wealth of knowledge, expertise and commitment to advancing the industry’s contribution to socio-economic development in the region makes them an exceptional addition to the GPCA Board and I look forward to working closely with them in the coming years to take the Association to new heights.”
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