Dr. Elie Salame – Four Decades of Leadership, Innovation, and Market Transformation.
Dr. Elie Salame is a seasoned business leader with over four decades of experience spanning corporate leadership, academia, and consultancy within the building materials and coatings industry. His professional journey reflects a rare blend of academic rigor and practical execution, positioning him as a bridge between theory and real-world business leadership. Alongside delivering university lectures and management training programs, he has held senior executive roles across the GCC and wider MENA region, managing complex markets and multicultural teams with strategic clarity His career took on an international dimension in the early 1990s when he assumed the role of Sales and Marketing Director at Hempel Paints, overseeing operations across Kuwait, Qatar, and the Levant countries. He subsequently moved to another multinational organization, where he served as Regional Manager from 2000 to 2010, managing key markets including ...