Walid S. Chiniara
Founder & Managing Director - Chiniara & Co. of Chiniara & Co.Walid has 44 years of experience, 28 of which dedicated to crafting legacies, Walid's 7-Step Methodology™ navigates generational conflicts and fosters lasting family unity.
Leveraging his experience from Tier-1 US/Canadian law firms and a CAC40 multinational to elite family enterprises, he helps families in business scale globally while amplifying their home base.
His approach empowers the rising NxGn by blending tradition with innovation to dominate in an era of disruption.
In Numbers:
• Pioneered one of the first regional family offices in 1998.
• Served 175+ families with over $650 billion under management.
• Achieved lasting harmony in 90% of succession plans.
Recent Accolade by FamCap (+1000 family offices):
• Top family business advisor in the Middle East, and among the Top-5 globally.
Mohammed Moumena
Chair of GCC BDI Jeddah Chapter and Managing Partner at Edward W Kelley & PartnersMohammed Moumena is a seasoned executive and consultant with more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate and family business environments and in the executive search industry.
His career in executive search started in 2006 when he co-founded Edward W Kelley & Partners (EWKP) a company specializing in executive search and Human Capital consulting with offices in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai, UAE. EWKP works in the private and semi-government sectors including closed joint stock companies and family business conglomerates providing executive search services for Board members, CEO’s, and other C-level positions. Mohammed has built a team of consultants with expertise in global executive search and Human Capital consulting combined with deep knowledge and experience of developed and emerging markets especially in the GCC.
Along with his activities in the executive search industry, Mohammed sat for the last 10 years as independent Board Member in a number of public and closed joint stock companies listed in Saudi Arabia and operating in the financial services, asset management, contracting, retail, facility management, and healthcare sectors where he contributed his knowledge and experience in corporate governance, human capital, strategic planning, budgeting, and financial oversight. He also sat as a Chairman and/or member of various Board Committees including Nomination & Remuneration, Investment, Audit, Risk, and Corporate Governance.
Mohammed was the Chief Executive Officer of Moumena Investment Group, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 1998 to 2022. The group has been involved in real estate development, hospitality, trade, and contracting, with investments in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Lebanon. He restructured the group reallocating assets and divesting unprofitable businesses and ultimately transformed the group from an operational to an investment entity, focusing primarily on Saudi Arabia and the UK.
Mohammed highly values environmental protection, business ethics, benevolence, and charity as evidenced throughout his dedication and work as an executive Board Member of Al-Wedad Charity Foundation, the first Saudi charity operating across all regions of the Kingdom and devoted to the care of orphans whose natural parents are unknown, and his contributions to enhancing the care of orphans since 2012.
Mohammed is Saudi national and holds a B.S. in Marketing from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, graduating in 1996. He also completed a 24-month Management Trainee Program in the Marketing Department at Unilever in Dubai, UAE.
Nazih Al-Naser
Vice Chair of GCC BDI Jeddah Chapter and Senior Adviser to the CEO at ICDNazih is a Chartered Director with 30 years of progressive experience, in business transformation, business development, fundraising, IT management, and human resources management, as well as formulating several strategies for Islamic financial, advisory services, and real-estate development companies.
Nazih has a wide exposure having visiting more than 25 countries, hands-on experience in strategy development, and operations of winning programs focused on delivering best-in-class results. He demonstrating success in new business launch and expansion; restructuring and turnround, and cultural collaboration and change management; driving aggressive marketing efforts resulting in business growth.
Nazih has a background in Computer Science from King Abdulaziz University and holds two Master degrees in Business Administration (from the Sheffield Hallam University) and Strategic Planning (from Heriot-Watt University). He has also attended many courses from Harvard, IMD, MIT, LBS, Oxford, and World Bank.