Mr. Al-Salman currently hold the position of Chief Financial Officer at the Public Investment Fund (PIF) since 2016 and oversees the Finance Division. He is also the Acting Head of Global Capital Finance Division supporting the Fund’s capital markets strategy and has oversight over financial strategy, capital structuring, and global capital financing activities, including capital raising, asset transfers, and investor relations.
He previously held various leadership roles across different sectors, including as the Chief Financial Officer of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC), the General Investment Manager of Mobily, and the Executive Manager of the Finance Department at Kingdom Holding Company.
Mr. Al-Salman is the Chairman of Telecommunications Towers Company (TAWAL), Vice Chairman of King Abdullah Financial District Company (KAFD), and a member of the Board of Directors at Riyad Bank, Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Water Solutions Company. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from King Saud University and Master’s Degree in Accounting Information System from Middle Tennessee State University in the United States of America. He is also a Certified Public Accountant accredited by the Saudi Organization for Chartered and Professional Accountants (SOCPA).
Maram Al Johani is the Acting Chief of Staff and the Secretary General to the Board at PIF. Additionally, Al Johani holds board and committee memberships with PIF portfolio companies.
As the Acting Chief of Staff, Al Johani leads organization-wide strategic planning, data and committees governance and advisory, stakeholder management, project management and portfolio companies affairs. She oversees PIF’s program and business plan development, and monitors the development and execution of strategies and business plans of PIF’s divisions. She manages institutional projects as well as new company establishment projects, in addition to overseeing the affairs of PIF’s portfolio companies and managing international and local stakeholders.
Al Johani has been with PIF since 2017, where she served as Head of PIF Data and Committees Governance and Advisory Department since 2021, and has actively engaged in several strategic projects at PIF and national level. Prior to joining PIF, Al Johani had worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2013.
Al Johani holds a bachelor’s degree from King Saud University and an MBA from Prince Sultan University. She has also obtained certifications from leading institutes including the Program of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.
Dina Powell McCormick has served at the highest levels of U.S. Government and on Wall Street. Dina spent 16 years in several leadership roles as a partner at Goldman Sachs including serving on the management committee and as global head of the sovereign investment banking business. She also served as President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation where she built two of the most effective economic development and entrepreneurship programs, 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. Dina also served two presidents, including as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump, where she worked on the foundations that led to the Abraham Accords. She is currently Vice Chair, President, and Head of Global Client Services of BDT & MSD Partners. She is a member of the Board of Meta Platforms, Inc. and the Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital PLC, a new age / new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, and millennial-driven influencer brands. S4 Capital, which started in 2018, has over 7,000 people in 33 countries and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under SFOR.L.
Sir Martin was Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalization of over £16 billion, when he left.
He was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award and was ranked as the second best-performing CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2016 and 2017. He has been nominated as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People
Richard Attias is the Chairman of the FII Institute Executive Committee, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Acting CEO of FII Institute.
He is also the Founder and Chairman of Richard Attias & Associates, a leading global communication strategy firm, and previously served as Executive Producer of the World Economic Forum (1996–2008).
Over the course of his career, Attias has built an unparalleled reputation for activating powerful networks, inspiring innovation, fostering public-private partnerships, and driving foreign direct investment in emerging markets.
Attias began his professional journey at IBM, where his passion for innovation led him to establish several companies in the global IT and computing services sectors, before spending a decade at the media conglomerate Publicis Groupe, where he served as Executive Chairman of Publicis Events Worldwide. He also served as CEO of the UAE government entity Dubai Event Management Company.
Attias completed his studies in civil engineering and earned a master’s degree in mathematics and physics.