Minister of Investment | Board Member
Board Member
Board Member | ExCom Member
Group Chief Executive Officer
Al Dahra Group
Group Chief Financial Officer
Al Dahra Group
Group Corporate Affairs Officer
Al Dahra Group
Ahmed is the Group Corporate Affairs Officer at Al Dahra Group and leads the Corporate Communications, Sustainability and Global QHSSE efforts for Al Dahra.
Ahmed has over 20 years of experience in the management of organizational support services. His roles have encompassed responsibilities in strategic business administration, corporate structuring, operational function design, policy development, governance, and business transformation across the Human Capital, Procurement, and QHSE functions.
Ahmed has held leadership positions at UAE sovereign investment funds and government organizations including Mubadala Investment Company, Masdar, Tabreed, and Abu Dhabi’s national oil company, ADNOC. While in those roles, he was also responsible for designing and establishing shared services functions in subsidiary and portfolio companies.
Ahmed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in HR Management from Portland State University, United States.
Group Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
Al Dahra Group
Dawn Sanderson is the Group Legal and Compliance Officer at Al Dahra Group and is responsible for the company’s legal and compliance function.
Dawn has over 20 years of international legal experience in private law firms and in-house, including 11 years with one of the world’s largest global law firms, Eversheds Sutherland LLP.
Dawn joined as the first in-house counsel for the Al Dahra Group in 2016. Prior to that, Dawn was a Principal Associate at Eversheds Sutherland Abu Dhabi, jointly leading the M&A department for the UAE. Dawn moved to Abu Dhabi in 2008 to set up the Eversheds Sutherland office in Abu Dhabi.
Dawn trained in England, as an M&A lawyer, working in the Eversheds Sutherland Nottingham office prior to moving to the UAE.
Over her career, Dawn has mentored young female professionals through various mentoring programs and has been actively involved in the British Chamber of Commerce Abu Dhabi.
Dawn holds a degree in Geography (BSc) Hons from the University of Sheffield, in England, as well as being a qualified solicitor of England & Wales. She also holds an international diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance from ICA.
Executive Vice President - Feed
Al Dahra Group
Wissam is the Executive Vice President - Feed for Al Dahra and is responsible for the Feed & Forage business as well as the global supply chain and logistics.
Prior to joining Al Dahra in 2020, Wissam spent seven years consulting at Accenture Strategy and Alvarez & Marsal in the Middle East and the US, advising across several sectors including Business Strategy, Operations Leadership, and Transformation Programs with a focus on delivering high-impact results.
Earlier in his career, Wissam worked for Future Pipe Industries, a leading piping systems manufacturing company, where he started his career in manufacturing and eventually was appointed as General Manager, responsible for US Supply Chain and Operations.
Wissam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut, a Master's degree in Business Administration (with merit) from the Manchester Business School, and has a Business Strategy Certification from INSEAD Business School.
Executive Vice President - Farming
Al Dahra Group
Stuart is Al Dahra’s Executive Vice President - Farming. He is responsible for leading Al Dahra’s global farming platform which consists of a number of primarily irrigated, large-scale farms which produce alfalfa, a range of annual and permanent crops, and livestock products.
With broad sectoral expertise spanning 40 years, Stuart has managed, led, and advised large-scale farm and forestry investments, agribusinesses, and agriculture funds, worldwide.
Prior to joining Al Dahra and earlier in his career, Stuart led his own agriculture investment and business advisory firm, Agri Frontiers, which provided general advisory services to investors, funds, businesses and development organizations in agriculture, and rural development in New Zealand, Brazil and globally.
He was also Head of Agriculture and Partner at The Rohatyn Group, a globally diversified asset management firm, where he led the farmland investment growth strategy, fund-raising, acquisition, portfolio analysis, investor reporting, and overall management of a portfolio of investments, spread across Australia, New Zealand, South America and the United States.
Stuart has held a variety of roles with major multinational companies such as Monsanto, Cargill, and Booker Tate, across multiple geographies including the United States, Brazil, Zambia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also held directorships and board level positions in various entities.
Stuart is from New Zealand and has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Agriculture, from the University of Reading, UK.
Executive Vice President - Forage
Al Dahra Group
Agostino Migiani is the Executive Vice President - Forage at Al Dahra where he is responsible for commercial, strategy and product development activities.
Agostino has over 30 years of experience in the forage sector. His career began as a Commercial Manager for fodder sales at the Saltarelli & Migiani Group. He then went on to hold the role of Expert of the forage sector at the European Community in Brussels, Belgium.
In 2003, Agostino established the European agribusiness, Bio Agri Trade, which subsequently partnered with Al Dahra in 2014 to form Al Dahra Bio Agri in Italy, where Agostino held the role of CEO. In 2018, the company partnered with Al Dahra Fagavi in Spain, creating Al Dahra Europe where he held the role of CEO.
Agostino graduated from the Commercial Technical Institute in Italy with a specialization in Economics and Commerce.
Executive Vice President - Feed
Al Dahra Group
Nael is Al Dahra’s Executive Vice President - Feed, and has over 20 years of experience in Finance, Supply Chain and Operations Management, garnered from complex global organisations in fast-pace and emerging markets.
He has extensive knowledge of complex, end-to-end Supply Chain, including procurement and logistics.
Nael has a Bachelor of Economics and Administrative Sciences from Applied Science Private University in Jordan.
Executive Vice President - Grains
Al Dahra Group
Nils is the Executive Vice President - Grains and is responsible for Al Dahra Group’s trading and strategic growth initiatives.
Nils joined Al Dahra with global management experience in market-leading companies across Europe, the United States, South America and Asia. Most recently, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Austria-based trading corporation, VA Intertrading Aktiengesellschaft, where he led its operational units as well as 15 affiliated companies across Europe, Russia and South America.
Prior to that, he held leadership positions in renowned corporations such as Graincom GmbH, Interbrau GmbH, Viterra SA, as well as various management roles over a 21-year span with commodity trading firm, Alfred C. Toepfer International GmbH which was part of the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Group.
Nils’ extensive experience is instituted in designing and implementing trading structures, risk management, M&A, and driving global supply chains in agricultural commodities.
Executive Vice President - Food
Al Dahra Group
Osman is the Executve Vice President - Food at Al Dahra and is responsible for the operational management and distribution of grain, rice, and fresh food commodities.
Osman joins Al Dahra from Nile Wood, where he was Chief Executive Officer. This role was preceded by a 15-year career at Heinz Egypt, where he was most recently Managing Director, responsible for the overall performance of the company. During this time, Osman led the development of an extensive new product development pipeline, spearheaded Egypt growth strategies, and improved overall factory efficiency and operating standards.
Prior to this, Osman was the Chief Operating Officer at Egyptian International Motors, the second largest trading company in Egypt.
Osman holds a Master of Business Administration, International Business, from the Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, from Cairo University.
Group Chief People Officer
Al Dahra Group
Susan (Su) Corkeron is the Group Chief People Officer of Al Dahra Group, leading global Organisation and People Transformation across the group. With extensive experience in People leadership, Su has navigated diverse business cycles, transforming organizations and people functions through innovative, game-changing talent strategies.
Her focus is on building talent and culture capabilities that align with Al Dahra's expanding portfolio, ensuring both long-term sustainability and a strong organizational legacy.
Su thrives on delivering high impact results, placing people and culture at the core of her work, fostering innovation, and driving transformation across diverse geographies, industries, cultures, and business complexities.
Before joining Al Dahra, Su founded and served as CEO of Evolve: The Future of Work, an HR transformation and culture consultancy. In this role, she partnered with C-suite executives across the region, both in the private and semi-government sectors, to co-create engagement strategies that aligned leaders and employees, driving performance and organizational success.
Earlier in her career, Su held Global Executive roles in large multi-national industrial organisations such as Weatherford and General Electric, where she spearheaded organisational transformation strategies through mandates including Mergers & Acquisitions, Portfolio and Organisational transitions, Digital and Culture change, new geographic and product market entry and company right sizing.
Su is a highly motivated and results-oriented leader with a passion for empowering people, leveraging individual strengths to build engaged and performance driven teams.
Su holds a degree in Business Management from Buckinghamshire University and a qualification in organizational leadership from Harvard Business School
Co-Founder and Board Member
Al Dahra Group
H.E. Khedaim Abdulla Al Derei is the Co-Founder and Board Member of the Al Dahra Group. He is also a delegated member from the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and oversees the commercial business of the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
He has over 30 years of public and private sector experience and has held senior positions within the UAE’s diplomatic core.
Previously, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, where he was responsible for the coordination of all private and business interests and activities of the office.
Prior to that, H.E. Khedaim was a Plenipotentiary Minister First Class at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, he was Deputy General Manager to the Court of H.H Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE.
H.E. Khedaim has also held various roles with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and had postings at the UAE Embassies in Washington DC, USA, and Beirut, Lebanon, where he held the position of First Secretary.
H.E. Khedaim has a number of external Chairmanships including: The Sheikh Zayed Private Academies for Girls and for Boys, Agility Abu Dhabi PJSC. He is also Board Member of Al Ain Holding and Board of Director of International Capital Trading.
He also sits on the boards of a number of public and private entities, including Abu Dhabi University and the UAE Red Crescent.
H.E. Khedaim holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Development from the American University in Washington DC, USA and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon. He has also attended several executive management programs at top institutions such as the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.
Board Member
Al Dahra Group
Marcos de Quadros is Chief Financial Officer at ADQ, where he leads the Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis, Treasury and Tax functions.
He currently serves as a board member for Louis Dreyfus Company, Abu Dhabi Airports and for Al Dahra.
Previously, Marcos served as Group Chief Financial Officer for the AW Rostamani Group and as Chief Financial Officer for Al Futtaim GE Finance in the UAE. His earlier career in Brazil included serving as Chief Financial Officer of GE Capital Bank in Brazil and other finance roles in Banco Itau, Merrill Lynch and ABN Amro Securities.
Marcos holds bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration from Mackenzie University and Civil Engineering from Sao Paulo State University. He concluded post-graduation studies in Accounting and Controllership from Sao Paulo Estate University. He also completed the Wharton Advanced Management Program and the Insead International Directors Programme.
Board Member | Chairman of the Executive Committee
Al Dahra Group
Gil Adotevi is the Board Member and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Al Dahra Holding contributing his extensive expertise to guide the company's strategic direction. He also serves as the Group Chief Investment Officer at ADQ, where he plays a crucial role in identifying and executing strategic investment opportunities. In his capacity at ADQ, Gil is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategies across key sectors including Food & Agriculture, Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, and Tourism, Entertainment & Real Estate. His focus is on fostering the growth of thriving sectoral clusters with an expanding global presence, generating returns for ADQ while strengthening Abu Dhabi's economic resilience.Gil's leadership extends to several prominent organizations. He serves as Chairman of Unifrutti Group and holds board positions at Agthia Group, Louis Dreyfus Company, and Lulu Group International. He is also an advisor to the Board of Abu Dhabi Ports Group. Prior to his current role, Gil was the Chief Executive Officer of Food & Agriculture at ADQ. His career also includes a significant tenure at Mubadala Investment Company, where he served as Senior Vice President, overseeing investments in Food and Agribusiness, Metals, Mining, and Utilities sectors. Gil's educational background includes a bachelor's degree in finance from McGill University in Canada and a master's degree from the London Business School, where he specialized in Private Equity, Turnarounds, and Entrepreneurship
Board Member
Al Dahra Group
H.E. Abdulhamid Mohammed Saeed is a a member of the Board of Directors at Al Dahra Holding, where he plays a vital role in shaping the company's strategic direction. He is a distinguished leader in the UAE's financial sector, bringing over 35 years of experience in banking and financial services. Previously, H.E. Saeed was the Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE from 2020 to 2021. He also held the position of Group Chief Executive Officer at First Abu Dhabi Bank from 2016 to 2020, where he significantly contributed to the bank's growth and market position. His extensive career includes key roles at Citibank and various senior positions in both government and private sector organizations. In addition to his leadership at Al Dahra, H.E. Saeed serves on several boards, including Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ), Emirates Red Crescent, Emirates Investment Authority, and Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. He also serves as the Chairman of the Endowments and Minors Funds Authority in Abu Dhabi Emirate. H.E. Saeed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in the United States. His wealth of experience and strategic vision continue to enhance the financial landscape of the UAE and drive economic development initiatives.
