Mr. Jasim Husain Thabet serves as TAQA’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (GCEO and MD), a role he has held since July 2020. Jasim, who was elected to TAQA’s Board of Directors in 2019, is an energy industry veteran with more than two decades of experience.

Prior to his role at TAQA, he served as CEO and MD of ADPower, where he leveraged the company’s portfolio of assets throughout the value-chain to support the transformation of the power and water sector in the UAE. He also served as CEO of National Central Cooling Company PJSC (Tabreed), where he drove capacity expansion and revenue growth. He currently holds the following positions:

•    Non-Executive Director and Member of Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee – Etihad Aviation Group PJSC
•    Non-Executive Director and Member of Strategy and Investment Committee and Audit and Risk Committee – Abu Dhabi Ports
•    Non-Executive Director and Member of Investment Committee and Human Resource Committee – Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry
•    Non-Executive Director and Member of Sustainability and Strategy and Investment Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee – Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar)

Mr. Thabet holds a bachelor of engineering in mechanical engineering from Saint Martin’s University in the United States.

Steve Ridlington serves as TAQA’s Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since July 2020.

Prior to his role at TAQA, Mr. Ridlington was Chief Investment Officer at ADPower. He previously held positions with BP, TNK-BP, and the National Central Cooling Company PJSC (Tabreed), serving as CFO at the latter.

Mr. Ridlington holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Sussex.

Stephen Wackerle serves as TAQA’s Chief Risk and Internal Audit Officer, a position he has held since July 2020. Mr. Wackerle oversees the organization’s management of risk and objective review of the risk management and internal control systems and holds responsibility for several functions, including, Health, Safety and Environment, Enterprise Risk, Business Continuity, Security and Internal Audit.

Mr. Wackerle is also the Committee Secretary of the TAQA Audit Committee.

Prior to this role, he held similar leadership roles with Abu Dhabi Power Corporation and BP.

Mr. Wackerle holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town in South Africa; is a CFA® Charterholder; a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; and a Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Mohammad Adnan Sharafi serves as TAQA’s Chief Legal Officer and Board Secretary, a position he’s held since July 2020. He oversees the company’s legal, governance and ethics and compliance functions.

Prior to his role with TAQA, Mr. Sharafi served as the General Counsel of Abu Dhabi Power Corporation in addition to nearly 12 years at Mubadala Investment Company advising on major M&A transactions, utilities development projects and other transactions covering the energy, industrial and financial sectors. Mr. Sharafi also worked at Clifford Chance LLP’s offices in London and Dubai.

He currently holds the following positions:

•    Chairman and Non-Executive Director – Union Power Holding Company PJS
•    Non-Executive Director – Emirates Power Company PJSC
•    Non-Executive Director – Shuweihat Power Company PJSC
•    Non-Executive Director – Massar Solutions PJSC
•    Non-Executive Director – TAQA North Ltd
•    Member of Audit Committee – Abu Dhabi Aviation PJSC

Mr. Sharafi is qualified to practice law as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law, London as well as a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Westminster, London..

Noel Aoun serves as TAQA’s Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, he leads the development and execution of TAQA’s corporate, sustainability and innovation strategies, drives the post-merger integration process and oversees portfolio companies value creation plans.

Previously, he served as Executive Director of Strategy at TAQA from July 2020 and Group Strategy and Business Development Director at TAQA, a role he held since March 2018.

Currently, Mr. Aoun serves on TAQA’s Investment Committee and on the Board of Directors of Massar Solutions.

Prior to his position at TAQA, he held leadership positions at Schneider Electric and Booz & Co.

Mr. Aoun holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD and a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beirut.