Ranking 30: Alan Talabani, Regional Managing Director at Turner & Townsend
Alan joined Turner & Townsend as a graduate in the company’s UK business, and relocated to help build the Middle East business in 2008. Alan became the Regional Managing Director in 2017 and since taking on the role, they have grown our Middle East business across our key markets (UAE, Oman, and Qatar), growing the team from 340 to 550+, and led Turner & Townsend successful market entry strategy into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been an unprecedented change and responding to the COVID crisis necessitated a range of changes in company’s approach, to protect their employees, clients, projects, and their wider business.
Alan told CBNME: “I made sure that whilst we focussed on crisis management, we never lost sight of the wider agenda. I focussed on positioning well for business recovery – preserving as much talent as possible within the business, keeping a tight control of finances, whilst also securing new revenue streams. In keeping close to our clients, we worked with them to overcome their challenges and deepen the trust they have in us, which has in turn secured us more work.”