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Saudi Strategy Week
Dates: 28 September - 2 October 2025

Crowne Plaza, RDC Hotel
Riyadh, KSA

Eddy Abou Chakra
Managing Partner at Vanguards Consulting
Speaker

Profile

Eddy is the founder and Managing Partner at VANGUARDS Consulting.

He has over 20 years of strategy and business transformation experience acquired through various engagements in Middle East, and Europe. His key focus is on strategy formulation, strategy execution, performance management, organization transformation, business process improvement, information systems, marketing, and business development. Eddy has advised governments, financial institutions, telecom operators, construction and real estate companies. He has led major strategy and transformation engagements with key focus on value proposition enhancement, governance, technology, product development, service delivery, business models, due diligence, and HR. Eddy has extensive experience in leading focused strategy engagements as well as large transformation projects.

Eddy held various positions in international audit and consulting firms and headed the IS Audit and consulting function at two of the top 10 international audit and consulting firms.

Eddy is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA – ISACA), certified Balanced Scorecard Master Professional (BSMP – George Washington University), and Certified E-business Consultant (CEC – ICECC).

Agenda Sessions

  • Learn the award-winning Nine Steps to Success TM Balanced Scorecard methodology to build and implement strategic performance management systems in your organisation

    08:30
  • Welcome Address

    08:30
  • Fireside Chat: The Strategy Tug-of-War – Long-Term vs. Short-Term Thinking

    09:40
  • Fireside Chat: Why Leading and Communicating are Key for Strategic Success

    10:50
  • Bridging the Strategy Design & Execution Gap: Turning Big Ideas into Actionable Insights

    11:30
  • Strategy Hackathon – How to Innovate, Solve, & Succeed

    12:50