Mr. AbdulAziz Al Obaidli is the Director of the UAE Asset Management at the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA). TAQA is a top 10 integrated utilities player in the EMEA region by regulated assets. Under his position, he oversees the UAE’s power and water generation business line.

Boasting of more than 13 years of experience in thermal power generation, including renewables, Mr. Al Obaidli sits in the boards of several power generation and water desalination companies in the UAE and the Middle East.

Prior to joining TAQA, he worked for several companies in the field of energy and renewables. His career began in 2006 as a field engineer with Dubai Aluminum, a smelting facility with a 2.3 GW capacity power plant. Mr. Al Obaidli was also a research engineer at Masdar Research Network, where he was a guest scientist for a joint initiative with the German Aerospace Center to explore and develop an integrated combined cycle solar power plant.

Mr. Al Obaidli earned an M.Sc in Energy Engineering specializing in power plant technology from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the UAE University. He also received the Emirates Energy Award in 2013 and was a member of the Zayed Future Energy Prize Review Committee.

Mr. Mothana Bahjat Qteishat has been the Managing Director of Jinkopower since 2015. For the past six years, Mr. Qteishat has been leading Jinko’s activities in the MEA region, including the Noor Abu Dhabi 1.2 GW project, the largest photovoltaic (PV) plant operational to date, and the still being constructed Dafrah 2.2 GW solar project, the largest initiative of its kind to date.

Mr. Qteishat has been a Board Member of Noor Abu Dhabi Company since 2017 and of Dafrah Solar Power Company since 2020.

A seasoned professional with more than a decade of executive management experience, Mr. Qteishat has a proven track record in the PV solar industry with more than a 3.5 GW of IPP project development and utility and commercial scale deployment.

For more than a decade, his career is focused on the Middle East’s PV industry, covering the entire chain of the solar industry, including EPC, supply chain, development and investment. Mr. Qteishat is one of the early founders of the region’s solar industry with significant contributions and achievements.

Mr. Qteishat holds a Bsc degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Mutah University, Jordan.

Mr. Imad Saket is the Director of Engineering and Construction at Jinko, covering MEA and APAC regions. He brings over 10 years of experience in the Solar energy sector to the company.

He has been allocated key management positions in the design, engineering, and construction phases of projects exceeding 4 GW, bringing innovative solutions that optimized project design and its economics.

Mr. Imad led the design, engineering, execution, and operation of solar utility scale projects in the region, most notably Noor Abu Dhabi the world’s largest operational solar plant with a total capacity of 1.2 GW, and Al Dhafra Projects which is the largest construction solar plant with a total capacity of 2.1 GW, over the past seven years.

Mr. Imad holds a Master Sc in Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Systems and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Toshiyuki Mizunuma is the Vice President, Asset Management of Marubeni Middle East Africa Power Ltd. He brings more than 15 years of experience in Asset Management in Independent Power Producer Businesses worldwide to the company.

Prior to his role in Marubeni, He was serving in J-POWER for several years and positions. His career began in 2004 in a coal power plant, and he served in different positions for 12 years in Japan. In addition, he served as the Assistant Director of Engineering in J-POWER USA Development Ltd. in Illinois, United States, for approximately four years before joining Marubeni Corporation.

Mr. Toshiyuki holds a Bachelor of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering from Waseda University in Japan.

Mohammed Karam Jassim is the Engineering, Technical, and Operational Excellence Director for TAQA’s Generation business.

With over 20 years of experience in modern thermal power plants, he is responsible for monitoring the technical performance of TAQA Generation assets. He also serves on the board of several IWPPs in the UAE and internationally.

Mr. Jassim leads the technical aspect of all new business development projects within TAQA Generation and collaborates with various power and desalination operations to ensure best practices. He oversees technical and operational excellence across the Generation business’s global power and water portfolio.

He has extensive experience in plant maintenance and operations and a sound knowledge of gas turbine/steam turbines and water technologies.

He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Al Ghurair University in the UAE.

Mr. Abdulrahman Maddi joined TAQA in 2021 as a Senior Associate in the Asset Management – Generation Business Unit, where he is assigned as Asset Manager of TAQA’s renewable assets.

Equipped with a decade of experience in the energy sector, Abdulrahman started his career at the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), where he worked as a Core Performance Engineer and Nuclear Fuel Buyer in the Nuclear Fuel Management, managing several special projects instrumental to the commercial operation of the Barakah power project’s units 1 & 2. His time at ENEC also included a two-year secondment at KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Company in South Korea as a Nuclear Fuel Design Engineer to perform core design analyses for the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant.

His journey in the energy sector further extended to Nawah Energy Company in the Licensing and Regulatory Affairs as a Senior Licensing Engineer, executing strategies to resolve complex regulatory issues, and overseeing key activities to ensure the successful acquisition of operating licenses for the Barakah Nuclear Power Units.

Abdulrahman holds several professional certifications, including Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute, Business Energy Professional (BEP) from the Association of Energy Engineers, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Nawah Energy Company.

Abdulrahman earned a B.Sc. degree in Energy Engineering complemented by a minor in Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is also an alumnus of McKinsey & Company’s Qiyada Emerging Leaders Program.