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HALL OF FAME www.ceotodaymagazine.com 4 consulates need to take a stronger initiative by arranging visits of delegations of various interested companies, from their respective countries though the Kingdom’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry. What are the top three achievements since becoming the CEO of SAK Consult in that you are most proud of? 1. Completing the World’s tallest flagpole project in Jeddah, being part of the World’s tallest building ‘Jeddah Tower’ Project, which is 1km tall and the Haramain High-Speed Railway Project which connects the Holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. 2. Winning Strategic Local and International Architecture and Engineering Awards, including the best Architecture and Engineering firm in GCC Award. 3. Winning LEED certification for the State of the Art Headquarter Building for SAK Consult to earn 100% of the US Green Building Council’s credits. What does your role as a CEO encompass? What are your key responsibilities? I am responsible for leading the development and execution of long-term strategies and ensuring that the company maintains high social responsibility wherever it does business, also to ensure that the organization’s leadership maintains constant awareness of both theexternal and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customer base, markets, and new industry developments and standards. Additionally, creating a learning organization that will continue to grow and flourish and enhancing the skills and abilities of employees. My aim is to foster good internal working relationships and encourage our staff for further education, knowledge transfer to freshgraduates and to realize their own individual and collective potential. I am primarily responsible for ensuring that all projects run smoothly, guiding the team in the delivery of schemes that exceeds client’s aspirations. What motivates you about your role? We are seeing a high demand increase for affordable housing and better mixed- use integrated developments. The market in the region is maturing. Local developers and investors are picking and choosing the type of development based on location as well as the lifestyle offerings. End-user satisfaction has become a primary target in current market conditions. What motivates me the most is to face these challenges on a regular basis and accommodate the end user requirements in our designs by introducing innovative and sustainable solutions to our infrastructure and buildings. Can you detail any exciting large-scale projects that SAK Consult is currently working on? The Jeddah Development & Urban Regeneration Company (JDURC) Affordable Housing Project is a proposed suburban township 60kms north of Jeddah. JDURC initiated the Salman Bay Housing Project as part of the planned expansion of Jeddah. The area of the development covers approximately 3.2 million square metres. The project site was divided into three phases, and the scope of the scheme proposed an integrated, mixed-use development of 25,000-housing units in 1,250 residential buildings, 24 mosques, 14 schools, a hospital and two polyclinics, the Red Crescent station and a police station. JDURC commissioned SAK Consult for the design of individual apartment buildings and construction supervision services for all the apartment buildings and the related infrastructure. The apartment buildings are a typical prototype with ground floor parking and in some cases few retail shops on the ground floor and residential apartments on the upper four floors. The execution of the infrastructure is nearly completed and phase one of the apartment buildings are under construction. What is your vision for the future of the company? As an Architect, I have various New SAK Consult HQ Building