Yousef Al-Benyan, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC, was re-elected as Chairman of the Board for another three-year term
The Gulf Petrochemicals & Chemicals Association (GPCA) recently announced the election of a new Board of Directors and a Vice Chairman at the 2021 Annual General Assembly Meeting.
Yousef Al-Benyan, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC, was re-elected for a new three-year term as Chairman of the GPCA Board of Director. Al-Benyan has served in this position since May 2016, having previously sat on GPCA’s Executive Committee.
Dr. Mohamed Al-Mulla was elected to the position of GPCA Vice Chairman, replacing Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery, President of the Bahrain-based Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC). Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery was elected as Treasurer. All three executives GPCA’s Chairman, Vice Chairman and Treasurer serve on the Association’s Executive Committee.
The new members elected on the GPCA Board of Directors are Ali Mohammed Al-Asiri, CEO, Chemanol; Ahmed Al Jahdhami, CEO Downstream, OQ; Abdel Hadi AlSuhaimi, Executive President, S-Chem; Othman A. Al-Ghamdi, President and CEO, PetroRabigh; Abdulrahman M. Al-Suwaidi, Managing Director and CEO, QAFCO; Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani, SVP Downstream, Saudi Aramco and Abdullah Saif Al-Saadoon, CEO, Sipchem.
The GPCA founding members who retain their seats on the GPCA Board are Yousef Al-Benyan, Vice Chairman and CEO, SABIC, Saudi Arabia; Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery, President, GPIC, Bahrain; Dr. Mohamed Al Mulla, Managing Director and CEO, QAPCO, Qatar; Hazeem Al Suwaidi, CEO, Borouge, UAE; Naser Aldousari, CEO, EQUATE, Kuwait; Mutlaq Al-Azmi, CEO, PIC, Kuwait; Mutlaq Al-Morished, CEO, Tasnee, Saudi Arabia and Abdullah A. Al-Hussaini, Executive VP–Marketing, Qatar Petroleum.
“I am pleased to welcome the newly elected members of the Board who bring decades of leadership experience acquired at the helm of some of the largest chemical and petrochemical companies in the GCC,” commented Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA
