Dr. Yousef Mahmoud Mohammad Al Assaf
Dr. Yousef Al Assaf is the Chairman of the board of directors of Brooge Energy Limited and a member of the Audit Committee. Dr. Al Assaf joined in October 2018. He is also the President of the Rochester Institute of Technology (Dubai). Prior to this, Dr. Al Assaf held a range of other academic positions over the last 30 years, most recently as the Dean of the College of Engineering at the American University of Sharjah (from 2006 to 2013), which he joined as an Associate Professor in 1991. Dr. Al Assaf started his academic career as a research and teaching assistant at Oxford University from 1985 to 1987. Dr. Al Assaf holds a BSc from Sussex University in Electrical Engineering, a PhD from Oxford University and completed the Executive Leadership Certificate Program from Cornell University in 2008.
Saleh Mohamed Yammout
Saleh Yammout is a Non-Executive Director of Brooge Energy Limited. Mr. Yammout joined in October 2018. Mr. Yammout served as the Vice President (Finance & Administration) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Dubai), having joined in 2014. Prior to this, he was a Senior Consultant at PwC from 2012 to 2014, and an Analyst at Al Hilal Bank from 2011 to 2012. Mr. Yammout holds a BSc in Economics with a concentration on International Relations from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Tony Boutros
Tony Boutros is an independent Director of Brooge Energy Limited and the Chairman of audit committee. Mr Boutros has been a Managing Partner of Boutros, Cordahi & Associates (BCA) since May 2019. BCA is a Professional Civil Company providing audit, tax and advisory practice including financial due diligence, feasibility studies and valuations. BCA is the Lebanese Member Firm of Ecovis International. From May 2013 – May 2019 he served as Managing Partner of Boutros, Saghir and Associates “BSA”, a Professional Civil Company. Prior to that he worked as an audit and advisory contractor at Usamah Tabbarah & Co – Nexia International (UTCNEXIA) from April 2012 – January 2013. Mr. Boutros worked at KPMG Lebanon from 2002 – 2012, including as the Lead Audit Partner, and at PricewaterhouseCoopers Lebanon from 1998 – 2002. Mr. Boutros is a Lebanese Certified Accountant and a Chairman of the Standards Committee (International Financial Reporting Standards and International Standards on Auditing) of the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants (LACPA). He has a Master of Business Administration from the Lebanese American University.
Nariman Karbhari
Nariman Karbhari is an independent Director of Brooge Energy Limited and a member of audit committee. Mr. Karbhari has worked as Managing Director and CEO of Spenta Advisory FZE since 2015 where he is responsible for arranging banking facilities for clients. From 2013 – 2015 he was Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking, Finance House PJSC, and from 2009 – 2013 he was Head of Investments and Treasury, Al Jaber Group, where he was responsible for arranging syndications, raising other banking facilities and managing investment portfolios in excess of AED 2.5 billion to 3 billion. He was also Head of Corporate, National Bank of Dubai, Abu Dhabi Region from 2005 – 2009 and Deputy Head of Corporate Banking, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, from 1994 – 2008. Prior to that, he worked as a relationship manager at the National Bank of Fujairah and the Commercial Bank of Dubai and as an accountant at Al Abbas Trading Co., Dubai.
Firoze Kapadia
Firoze Kapadia is an independent Director of Brooge Energy Limited and a member of audit committee. Mr. Kapadia qualified in June 1994 as a Chartered Certified Accountant in the U.K. and has accumulated a diverse career experience of approximately 27 years in the field of accounting, finance and management as well as in taxation. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer at the Al Sayegh Group where he oversees the preparation of consolidated financial statements and appropriate accounting policies and procedures at a group level. Mr. Kapadia is also responsible for ensuring staff technical training for the finance department.
Board Diversity Matrix (As of 23 December 2022)
| County of Principal Executive Offices | Iraq and Australia |
| Foreign Private Issuer | Yes |
| Disclosure Prohibited Under Home Country Law | No |
| Total Number of Directors | 6 |
Gender Identity
| Female | Male | Non-Binary | Did Not Disclose Gender | |
| Directors | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Demographic Background
| Underrepresented Individual in Home Country Jurisdiction | 0 |
| LGBTQ+ | 0 |
| Did Not Disclose Demographic Background | 0 |
