DEC 10th
10AM KSA time

Strategy in the GCC:

From National Vision to Measurable Impact
From Vision to Plan
How leading Saudi organizations cascade Vision 2030 into their own strategy and KPIs
From Reports to Results
How strategy teams move beyond slide decks to track impact in real time
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About the event

Across the GCC, the question has changed from what organizations are launching to what impact they’re delivering. In Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030 has entered its impact phase, and boards want evidence of progress, not plans. Strategy leaders from Nesma and Napco National, two of the Kingdom’s leading groups, share how they turned long-term ambition into strategies their organizations run every day. They’ll cover how they cascade national and corporate priorities through divisions and teams, how they report progress to boards and executives, and what it takes to keep strategy on track as priorities sharpen.

What we'll cover

Cascade the Vision

We’ll look at how organizations translate national priorities into their own strategy, from corporate objectives down to divisions, owners and KPIs. We’ll also get into what changes when a holding group or multi-business company runs one strategy instead of many.

Turn the Plan into a Living Strategy

We’ll get into what happens after the strategy document is signed off: making KPIs and timelines actionable, building review cycles that stick, and giving boards the reporting they actually want to see.

Prove Impact as Priorities Sharpen

We’ll look at how strategy teams replace slide decks with real-time accountability, get executives to treat one source of truth as the strategy, and reprioritize quickly when the focus shifts. We’ll also touch on where AI is starting to help.

Our speakers

Nadim El Chakhtoura is a Chief Strategy Officer and DBA-trained strategist with 28 years of experience across the GCC. At Nesma United Industries, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading industrial conglomerates, he built the group’s Strategic Management Office from the ground up. That included the governance frameworks, digital systems and cross-unit structures that turn strategy into results. His career combines corporate strategy with deep hospitality expertise, two worlds Vision 2030 is bringing together.
Nadim El Chakhtoura
Chief Strategy Officer
Nesma United Industries
Dean DeLoe is a strategy and business model expert with 25 years of turnaround consulting across 20+ industries. In 2017, he was brought in to build a new strategy for Napco National B2B Solutions, a premium hygiene and paramedical supplier across five GCC countries. After taking over leadership in 2018, he grew the business 50% in five years, despite the pandemic, after years of flat performance. Most recently, he led Napco’s digital transformation and launched a first-of-its-kind B2B ecommerce platform in Saudi Arabia.
Dean Deloe
Chief Analytics Officer
Napco National
Alex is a revenue growth and delivery executive with a proven track record of scaling a FinTech SaaS division from $15M to $100M in revenue, playing a key role in its successful PE acquisition and subsequent post-merger integration. He brings extensive expertise in go-to-market execution, process efficiency, and running high-performing client delivery organizations to maximize retention and scalable growth. He holds an MA in Statistics and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
Alex Lee
Chief Customer Officer
Cascade

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