Yasser Dabbagh

Provide strategic leadership across the Group's diversified construction and engineering businesses, including subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures across the GCC. Held concurrently with the CFO role until December 2025. • Direct group-level P&L performance, ensuring alignment between operational execution, financial discipline, and long-term strategy. • Lead digital transformation and AI deployment across the Group — ERP modernisation, IT governance, cybersecurity, workflow automation, and data-driven performance management. • Drive organisational restructuring, governance enhancement, and the implementation of enterprise-wide controls and internal audit recommendations. • Oversee operational performance across business units with a focus on cost optimisation, project delivery, procurement, and logistics. • Direct corporate governance frameworks: board reporting, compliance, policy development, and top-level risk management across all subsidiaries.

Led the Group's finance function for twelve years, with end-to-end responsibility for financial strategy, controls, audit, treasury, and a series of additional cross-functional executive mandates. • Built and maintained the Group's internal control architecture; oversaw external audit (US GAAP and SOCPA) and resolution of audit and compliance matters. • Directed treasury, banking, trade finance, and cash flow planning across the Group's operating entities. • Managed financial reporting to shareholders, lenders, and regulators; led organisational and contract budget development. • Chaired the Procurement, PMV (Plant, Machinery & Vehicles), Project Control, and Information Technology committees of the Group. • Represented KCG on the IKK Group's centralised Information Technology committee. • Oversaw the Group's logistics function as an additional executive responsibility.

Led EMCC, KCG's electromechanical contracting subsidiary, with responsibility for strategy, operations, financial viability, and leadership development. • Set the annual operating plan and budget; reported strategic and financial performance to the board. • Built procedures and management systems for the long-term operating viability of the business. • Oversaw compliance with regulatory and labour-law requirements across the workforce. • Led technology evaluation and adoption within budget constraints.

• Defined and executed EMCC's commercial growth strategy. • Held end-to-end responsibility for the commercial function and the company's profitability. • Led shareholder value reporting and commercial governance.

Worked directly with the General Manager on Group-level matters, with a particular focus on enterprise technology, governance, and corporate development. • Led the Group's ERP and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) implementations and other automation projects. • Represented the GM in strategic supplier engagements and shareholder meetings. • Drafted the Board of Managers' mandate; managed meeting cadence, minutes, and action plans. • Supported the incorporation of two joint ventures.

Independent Board Director at one of Lebanon's established commercial banks, serving through a particularly demanding period for the country's banking sector. • Chairman of the Audit and Ethics Committee. • Member of the Nominating, Remuneration & Corporate Governance Committee. • Member of the Digitalisation Committee. • Carried fiduciary responsibility for legal compliance, conflict of interest oversight, and succession planning across the institution.

• Led operations, sales, and pre-sales activities for Enterprise Content Management solutions across the Western Region. • Crafted technical and commercial proposals and conducted requirements analysis at customer sites. • Built and managed partner relationships at sales and strategic levels.

• Led pre-sales, technical, and partner enablement for the EVER ECM suite. • Acted as the regional pre-sales liaison with international headquarters.