Dr.  Mo Bazaraa
SVP, Supply Chain Solutions
Agility, USA

Mo Bazaraa is Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Solutions at Agility. He is responsible for logistics engineering and for developing attractive supply chain solutions globally in support of sales and for improving existing operations. Dr. Bazaraa has over thirty years of experience in the areas of transportation, logistics, supply chain, and information technology.

Dr. Bazaraa worked as Professor at Georgia Tech and as Managing Director at the Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech. He served as Senior Vice President of Air Cargo and Logistics at Sabre, a leading travel and transportation information technology company. He led Sabre’s efforts in providing consulting services and developing logistics and supply chain software solutions to over 100 customers including air cargo carriers, railroads, trucking companies, third party logistics providers, manufacturers, and retailers.

Dr. Bazaraa also served as Senior Vice President at Burnham, a third party logistics provider. His responsibilities included information systems, planning, traffic management, fleet maintenance, and pricing of services.

Dr.  Alain Martel
Professor of Supply Chain Engineering and Management
University of Laval

Alain Martel is Co-director of CIRRELT, an Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation, andProfessor of supply chain engineering and management in the Operations and Decision Systems Department at the Faculté des Sciences de l'administration, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada. He was Co-director of CENTOR (Centre de recherche sur les technologies de l'organisation réseau), Chairman of the Operations and Decision Systems Department and Co-director of a Commission on the industrial competitiveness of Canada, at Laval, and is a past President of the Canadian Operational Research Society.

Alain Martel has also provided consulting services to several public (Canadian Armed Forces, Hydro-Quebec, NSERC...) and private organizations (Domtar, Prevost Car, Ro-Na Dismat, Provigo Distribution, Bombardier, Peat-Marwick Advanced Technology, DMR... ). He was also involved in Supply Chain training programs in several countries.

Dr. Adel Guitouni
Lead Defence Scientist
Defence R&D Canada - Valcartier

Dr A. Guitouni is a defence scientist with Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier and Atlantic since 1998. He is specialised in the domain of net-enabled dynamic resource and logistics management, decision support systems, operational research and artificial intelligence. His work includes planning and optimisation, automated classification, decision analysis, multiple criteria decision aids, and collaborative decision making and planning. He is adjunct professor with Laval University and University of Victoria.

Khalid Lootah
Public Sector Director, Microsoft gulf

Education :
DBA Maastricht school of Management(2008), Topic :
MPhil Maastricht school of Management(2006)
LLM In IT and telecoms Law strathclyde University(1999)
MBA Southern New Hampshire University(1997)
BA Computer Science, Point Loma University USA (1989)
Research:
Fingerprint System design Research in San Diego State University
Mathematical Sciences Center in Barcelona : Wavelet theory and practice 1999
University of Helsinki : Intelligent systems 2000
NATO workshop 1998 : Sterling in Face recognition

Colonel (retired) PHILIP GHAGANIS OBE

Colonel (retired) PHILIP GHAGANIS OBE spent 11 years of his military career working at director level in a succession of high profile ‘command appointments’ in Germany, Bosnia and in the UK including MoD London, where the main theme of his work was the management, development and delivery of operational capability relating to the deployment of logistics forces. He is currently the Directorof the Logisitcs Academy - Abu Dhabi