The role of good succession planning is becoming more critical in today's world to ensure the viability and sustainability of companies going forward. It also leads to putting more focus on leadership development, training, and grooming of talent.

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Sherif is a global corporate executive with successful track record at transforming underperforming global Fortune 500 companies into thriving and profitable enterprises. He is highly skilled at analyzing business performance, identifying areas in need of improvement, and delivering effective solutions that improve operational performance and business profitability. As an executive, he strives to empower teams to achieve a high level of performance and success.

Sherif is fluent in getting customer feedback, developing customized client focused scenarios, building turnaround plans, leading cross-functional teams, prioritization, and execution. He is passionate about delivering safest operations and highest operational efficiency and focused at building collaborations, agreement, and motivation in matrix teams including strategy development and execution, operations, legal, finance, supply chain, supplier management, and marketing around the shared objective of leading profitable businesses. Expertise is informed by a solid educational foundation with an MBA from INSEAD, BSc in Industrial Engineering and MSc in Engineering Management.