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 Adam Malouf is the Head of Legal and Compliance for the Arabian Real Estate Investment Trust. Adam is responsible for all legal and compliance matters concerning asset acquisitions, asset management, acquisition finance and equity fundraising, acts as director and alternate director for several of the AREIT group companies, and also acts as AREIT's company secretary.
Adam is regularly called upon to speak at conferences and seminars both regionally and internationally, on topics ranging from real estate investment to corporate governance to complex structured finance deals.
Adam is currently the Chairman of the Australian Business Council - Dubai and has also been a long standing member. He has a wide range of professional and business affiliations, being a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the director in charge of the Middle East region for the Australian Lebanese Chamber of Commerce, a member of the International Who's Who of Professionals, a member of the Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance and a member of the Dubai Corporate Counsel Group.
Adam has a wealth of experience in both domestic and international commercial property, financing, structuring, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions transactions. He has spent over the past 2 years with AREIT, and before that, Adam worked for British law firm Clyde & Co in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and worked for major Australian law firms Allens Arthur Robinson and Clayton Utz in their banking and finance, corporate/commercial and commercial litigation practice groups.
Adam has a Bachelor of Commerce (major in Accounting with merit) and a Bachelor of Laws, both from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and is a qualified practising Australian lawyer. |
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 Tim Howe is the Managing Director of Al Ghaith & Co, one of the oldest accounting practices in Dubai. The firm is a member of MSI Global Alliance, a network of independent professional firms found in over ninety countries.
He has a business degree from Edith Cowans University Perth and is an Australian Certified Practising Accountant as well as an Australian-qualified Company Secretary.
Tim has been a long-standing member of the Australian Business Council in Dubai and a past Chairman.
He has spent the past fifteen years with Al Ghaith & Co. Prior to that, he had worked in senior accounting positions in various locations including Australia, PNG, Indonesia, Kuwait, Zambia and the UK.
He was a regular contributor to the Gulf News with his weekly "Howe To Do It" column covering topical financial matters and has written articles for BBC Worldwide. |
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 Raised in Australia, Ms Sharon Bartlett, following the completion of a double degree, Bachelor of Business (Marketing) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) with Honors at Chisolm Institute of Technology and the start up and management of a successful infrastructure company during her first year of studies, quickly gained recognition as a talented business professional. Identified as an emerging business woman, a leading Australian Infrastructure company fostered Bartlett’s talent in their highly respected, industry focused, fast track development program. Aimed at accelerating the professional growth, experience and education of young business professionals, Bartlett leveraged this support and experience to assist in the expansion of her co-owned infrastructure company. These efforts combined with the support of a talented team, resulted in the landmark buyout of the company during her twenties.
Eager to replicate her Australian success, attention was focussed on identifying an emerging global market of which to enter. The UAE with its vision to become the international centre point of trade, business and luxury living, an economy fuelled by oil production and petrochemical investment dollars, combined with Bartlett’s experience to date, qualified this location as the ideal market for which to respond, leverage and capitalise on.
In 1997, Bartlett together with her co-founder, launched Septech Emirates. Today, the company experiences year-on-year growth that exceeds industry standards. Assisting in taking the company from a start-up operation 12 years ago, Bartlett has been responsible for the diversification of the company’s portfolio which today, caters to 4 major industry sub-markets; pre-cast infrastructure, water and wastewater, mobile water and marina. Strategically, Bartlett has steered the company towards partnering with the leaders of international business, successfully securing the partnership of the world’s largest water company, GE and marina manufacturer, Bellingham Marine.
Committed to the growth of the economy and industry of the Middle East, Bartlett is an active member of the Young President’s Organisation Emirates Chapter. |
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 Kym Hewett joined Austrade when it was established in 1986. He has served in the following international roles:
- Consul General, Dubai and Senior Trade Commissioner, Middle East & North Africa (from September 2007)
- Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister, Commercial, Beijing, China (2003 - 2006)
- Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister, Commercial, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1994 - 1997)
- Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister, Commercial, Seoul, R O Korea (1990 - 1993)
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His domestic assignments have included State Manager, Victoria (2007), Chief Information Officer (1999 - 2002) and Area Manager, North Asia (1988 - 1989). |
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 Stuart has been an active member of the Australian community in Dubai since his arrival in 2000. He served as committee member of the Australian Business in the Gulf Group for a number of years before his election as Chairman in 2006. Under his leadership ABIG introduced new events and initiatives designed to attract the ever-increasing numbers of Australians arriving in the UAE. He was also instrumental in the move from ABIG to the Australian Business Council creating an elevated status for Australian Business representation with local authorities including the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dubai Municipality and with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Stuart is an International Business Graduate from the Queensland University of Technology and has worked in various corporate fields across Australia, Japan, USA, Canada and the Middle East. |
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 Kelvin Templeton MBA, B.App. Sci. is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Wharton (USA). Kelvin is co-founder and Managing Director of Templeton Galt, a consultancy company specialising in Sport, Health and Tourism, with a focus on Australia, the Middle-East and North Africa.
From 1995 to 2002, Kelvin was CEO of the Sydney Swans Football Club. During this period, the Sydney Swans established themselves for the first time as one of the AFL's major franchises.
Prior to this, he was for nine years General Manager of the Medical Clinics Division of Australia's largest private health insurer, the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia., where he launched high profile national programs for the early prevention of Breast Cancer and the "Know Your Heart" program.
Kelvin is a former elite sportsman, winning the Australian Football League's highest individual honour, the Brownlow Medal, in 1980. |
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Raymi van der Spek is the Vice President Administration for the University of Wollongong Dubai.
He has been with the university since November, 2007.
He is a graduate of the University of Canterbury with Honours.
He has a wife, 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters.
He is a golf fanatic. |
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