Gulf Placement Advisors Limited (GPAL) is a US-based specialized boutique private equity placement agent and cross-border strategic advisory firm with US office in Houston and partners thoughout the Arabian Gulf capitals and China, viz; FAD Investments in Riyadh, Al Mal Investments in Kuwait, Tabbar Holdings in Dubai, CECEP and CITIC Securities in China. Our core businesses focus on raising capital for socially and environmentally responsible investments and facilitating accelerated market entry as a strategic partner to companies attempting to penetrate the “barriers to entry” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates

Arc Southern Energy (ARC) mission is to develop new industrial processes using innovative plasma arc gasification by converting waste such as municipal solid, medical and refinery wastes and sewage sludge into electricity. ARC also seeks to develop landfill gas (LFG) energy projects, to generate marketable energy. Finally ARC will further provide carbon solutions consulting and assist with carbon origination.

Director

A new Biofuel Start-up. Our mission is to develop a significant presence in the production and sale of non-petroleum and renewable transportation fuels. Sunthenoil is a global biofuels company which gains a competitive advantage by locating production in areas of the world highly conducive to low cost agriculture and ships finished product directly to global consuming markets

Research work on the development of fabrication protocols for ceramic membranes to be used in desalination and nano filteration membrane applications.

•Joined the company at entry level and quickly ranked as one of their leading process engineers specialized in the process design, manufacturing, and installation and commissioning of large seawater and brackish desalination RO plants. Projects undertaken and successfully completed under my management or involvement included 4.2 million gallon per day RO plant at Ras Tanajib for Saudi Aramco, Safania Oil Fields and 12.5 million gallon per day RO plant for the city of Unaizah, Qassim, Saudi government. As a project manager, responsibilities included supervision in process design and leading team of 600 staff members to undertake field installation, start-up, commissioning and reliability tests of two large Seawater Reverse Osmosis at Duba and Haql cities for the government of Saudi Arabia (SWCC).