Hessa Al Bahli (mentee)
Senior Assistant Manager – Ethics & Compliance, Mubadala Investment Company
Leading the company’s Ethics & Compliance program in Mubadala Petroleum. Provide versatile and flexible counsel to business leaders on all areas of compliance as well as commercially-friendly advice about a spectrum of risk areas, covering a variety of jurisdictions.
Hessa has been nominated to represent the UAE as a participating member in the ISO TC309 concerning Governance & Compliance.
Prior to joining Mubadala, Hessa worked as a compliance manager in one of Mubadala’s joint ventures (Mubdala GE-Capital) managing a Compliance program in the financial sector. Hessa has also worked at the General Secretariat of the Cabinet (UAE), leading various strategic federal initiatives, projects and policies.
Anna Al Qassimi Roberts (mentor)
Managing Director and Founder, The Nudge Effect
Anna Roberts is the Managing Director of Nudge, a Communications Coaching and Advisory based in Dubai and available online to the world with her newly launched Nudge Academy. A former International TV and Radio Presenter, International Speaker and Moderator with over 10 years experience, Anna has interviewed CEOs, government leaders and award winning athletes but now channels her expertise to allow women to be the boss of their business and life. (See more at
www.thenudgeeffect.com
)
Anna is also a keen writer, photographer and videographer and through these mediums she details her journey in business and motherhood at
www.imannaroberts.com
. Anna has called Dubai home for the past 24 years but is still a proud New Zealander. She loves documentaries, traveling and great dinner conversations.
Christiane Haber (mentor)
Chief Executive Officer, FFA Dubai, Member of FFA Private Bank
Christiane Haber is the Chief Executive Officer of FFA Dubai Limited. She is the co-founder of FFA Dubai. Prior to this, she was the Chief Operating Officer/Finance Officer where she was responsible for the set up of the Firm and was responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Firm.
Christiane has over 20 years of experience in the Middle East in establishing corporate vision, strategic operational planning, re-engineering operations & process improvement, forecasting & budgeting, managing high level of banking relations and negotiating complex deals and contracts.
Dr Ryan Lemand (mentor)
Head of Wealth and Asset management, ADS Securities
Dr Ryan Lemand is the Managing Director-Head of Wealth & Asset Management at ADS Securities.
Previously, Dr Lemand was the Senior Advisor and Head of Risk Management at the Emirates Securities & Commodities Authority. He also held roles as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Fortis Investments in London and Paris, as well as teaching financial econometrics courses at the Paris II-Assas University and Paris IX-Dauphine University.
Dr Lemand holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in Financial Econometrics from the École Normale Supérieure, France, and is the author of two books on financial contagion, as well as a number of research articles on financial correlation.
