#executive appointments

Saudi Aramco appoints presidents for upstream and downstream businesses

Saudi Aramco promotes upstream, downstream heads to new president roles

Nassir Al-Naimi remains in charge of Aramco’s oil and gas production while Mohammed Al Qahtani will continue to run the refining and chemicals business

Help AG appoints new country director for Saudi Arabia

Help AG’s new cybersecurity operations centre to launch in Riyadh in 2021

Infor appoints new head of Middle East and Africa region

Amel Gardner will be responsible for overall business and customer growth in the region

Micro Focus appoints new head of Emerging Markets

Anas Jwaied is Micro Focus new vice president and general manager for Emerging Markets

Huawei appoints first ever chief security officer in the GCC

Aloysius Cheang takes up role as CSO for Huawei UAE

Huawei appoints Jiawei Liu as new UAE CEO

Liu will oversee Huawei’s carrier, enterprise, and consumer segments

Huawei appoints new Middle East head for cloud and AI business

Li Shi will oversee the expansion of the group’s regional product and solution portfolio

Fortinet appoints new regional head for channel, to be based in Dubai

Shane Grennan returns to Fortinet after a spell at Cylance

Maya Zakhour takes on new role as NetApp channel director for MEA, Italy and Spain

NetApp keen to expand footprint in booming cloud market