Feras Alabkari

Senior Director of Human Capital at Ali Zaid Al - Quraishi & Brothers

Speaker

Feras is a qualified HR seasoned leader with a successful record in managing, developing, and transforming Human Resources functions. Feras possesses strong business acumen skills that enabled him to add value to the different businesses he worked in. His knowledge was driven from deep business involvement and professional qualifications such as SHRM-SCP (US), Certified Training & Development Professional by ILM (UK), PHR-I (US), and certified Trainer by the John Maxwell association (US).

Feras started his career with Transocean Deepwater, specialized in oil extraction through its advanced offshore rigs. Feras helped Transocean in developing various training and organisational development activities. Following this Feras joined Olayan Group as an HR Executive, responsible for managing and developing HR departments in the Oil & Gas affiliates that are located in the eastern region in Saudi Arabia. Feras then moved to Abdulla Fouad Group. With Abdulla Fouad Group, Feras was able introduce a strong performance management program and state-of-the-art leadership development programs that transformed the way people work and lead the business which helped in significantly increasing their productivity. After a successful journey with the previous organisations, Feras joined AZAQ to start a new exciting journey to redefine the HR function to a Human Capital unit investing in our most valuable assets, our people.

Besides his technical expertise in HR and his advanced leadership skills, Feras is a qualified trainer, public speaker and coach. He delivers various courses in HR, Leadership and other soft skills as well as providing coaching sessions for professional and executives. He has been instrumental in leading the implementation of various HR systems in the organisations he has worked with proving his ability to leverage and apply technology in HR automation and digitalisation.

Recognising and seeing the value of Feras’s leadership, he has been entrusted to be the Chairman and independent member in multiple board committees. This exposure, has significantly contributed to the growth of Feras’s experience as a leader being instrumental in having a robust governance structures as well as in the development and implementation of the organisations’ strategies.