BOURSA KUWAIT & MEIRA KUWAIT CHAPTER: IR WORKSHOP

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Venue Location

Boursa Kuwait

Mubarak Al Kabeer Street
Al Kuwayt, Al Asimah Governate, Kuwait

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Organizer

Organizer: Middle East Investor Relations Association, Boursa Kuwait

Phone: +971 502880946

Contact Person: Pedro Lopez

Email: pedro@meira.me

Event Details

The Middle East Investor Relations Association ("MEIRA"), in collaboration with Boursa Kuwait, is delighted to invite you to the upcoming Investor Relations Event: "Strategic communications, challenges and opportunities" on Wednesday 7 June, at 12.30-3.30 pm.

The event will take place at Boursa Kuwait, attendees are required to register. Kindly note that seats are limited and participation will be confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis.

Join us for a conversation with the experts and align your IR efforts, from strategy to tactics, with the latest developments in the world of IR!

Agenda is as follows:

12:30 PM – Registration

01:00 PM – Welcome Address by Boursa Kuwait & MEIRA

01:10 PM – Opening Panel discussion - Strategic communications, challenges and opportunities

Guest Speakers:

Andy Parnis, Managing Director, Teneo

Mohammad Alabdulkader, Senior Vice President- MENA Equities, Markaz

Moderator: Mohammad A. Abdal, Chief Communications Officer at Zain, and MEIRA Kuwait Chapter Head

02:00 PM – IR Workshop: The complete IR Toolkit

John Gollifer, General Manager, MEIRA

Andy Parnis, Managing Director, Teneo

Paolo Casamassima, Head of Global Market Intelligence, Orient Capital

03:00 PM – MEIRA Kuwait Chapter Networking over light refreshments

03:30 PM – End

Target Audience: This event is for MEIRA members, Boursa Kuwait listed companies, and IR Officers.

Speakers

Mohammad A. Abdal

Chief Communications Officer at Zain Group

Mohammad A. Abdal

Chief Communications Officer at Zain Group

Mohammad Abdal is the MEIRA Kuwait Chapter Head. He was appointed Chief Communications Officer of Zain Group effective July 10, 2015, heading three significant divisions within Zain Group: namely Investor Relations, Corporate Communications, and Corporate Governance & Compliance. A Kuwaiti national, Abdal is a home-grown success story having joined Zain in 2001 as a finance executive soon after graduation. Over the next 16 years Abdal rose rapidly through the organization; playing a key role in various aspects of the company’s evolution and success from a local operator in Kuwait to becoming the leading telecom conglomerate it is today.

Abdal graduated in 2001 from Portland State University, Oregon, US with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in Finance & Management Information Systems. He has also attended reputable executive programs in recent years that earned him several recognitions as a Certified Investments and Derivatives Auditor (CIDA), a Certified Investor Relations Officer and a Certified Corporate Governance Officer.

Andy Parnis

Managing Director of Teneo Holdings

Andy Parnis

Managing Director of Teneo Holdings

Andy is a Managing Director at Teneo with 18 years’ experience. He specialises in working with multinational EMEA companies on all aspects of financial/capital markets communications and investor relations.

Since relocating to the Gulf, Andy has advised ADNOC Drilling and Fertiglobe on their IPOs on ADX and currently provides investor relations and financial communications advice to both companies post listing. Other client experience includes ADNOC, Network International, TAQA, Emirates REIT and BT Group. Previously, he was at Finsbury in London where he was a Managing Director in the Capital Markets practice and Head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms team. In his role, he advised on several IPOs and complex M&A transactions including SoftBank’s acquisition of ARM Holdings plc, the merger of Virgin Media / O2 and the merger of Viacom / CBS whilst on secondment to the New York office. Other clients included Liberty Global, ITV, Siapem, VEON and Snam.

Prior to moving into strategic communications, Andy spent nine years as an equity analyst at UBS and Lehman Brothers and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte. Andy holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics & Politics from the University of Bristol, England.

Mohammed Al Abdulkader

Senior Vice President at MENA Equities- Markaz

Paolo Casamassima

Head of Global Market Intelligence at Orient Capital

Paolo Casamassima

Head of Global Market Intelligence at Orient Capital

Paolo is an investor relations and capital markets specialist with 15+ years’ experience in developing industry-leading IR advisory and data services. Paolo looks after the European and MEIRA client’s final delivery reporting requirements. He has advised various companies worldwide on investor relations, shareholder identification, perception studies, targeting and regulatory developments and has been involved in all IR Corporate Advisory aspects including equity and debt ownership research and analysis, disclosure and compliance, proxy solicitation and sales. Prior to OC, Paolo worked at Ipreo, where he headed the International Research and Compliance operations of Corporate Services running ID projects for large cap companies. Paolo speaks Italian and Spanish, holds a BA degree in International Relations and a Master from Cambridge University.

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“STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR LISTED COMPANIES”

Mohammad A. Abdal

Chief Communications Officer at Zain Group

Andy Parnis

Managing Director of Teneo Holdings

Mohammed Al Abdulkader

Senior Vice President at MENA Equities- Markaz

Paolo Casamassima

Head of Global Market Intelligence at Orient Capital

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