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Salem Albakri is the Principal Consultant of Claimetrica Consulting. With over 20 years of hands-on experience in construction planning, scheduling, delay analysis, and project controls, he has delivered expert advisory services on some of the most complex projects in the GCC and Canada.

He currently serves as PMO/Portfolio Planning Director at Parsons, seconded to the Public Investment Fund (PIF), where he oversees planning and scheduling across Vision 2030 giga-projects including ROSHN, Diriyah, Saudi Downtown, and EXPO 2030. Previously, he held senior project controls roles with KEO International (Diriyah Gate), WSP Canada, Kiewit Corporation, and NouvLR (the SNC-Lavalin/Dragados/Aecon/AECOM JV delivering Montreal's 67km REM light rail).

Salem specializes in delay analysis methodologies including Time Impact Analysis (TIA), Windows Analysis, and Collapsed As-Built, in accordance with the SCL Protocol and AACE Recommended Practices. He is proficient in Primavera P6, Deltek Acumen, TILOS, Monte Carlo simulation, and Excel VBA for advanced scheduling analytics.

Mohamed Sabbah is a Project Controls and Scheduling Professional with over 22 years of experience delivering large-scale capital projects across Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He brings deep expertise in Primavera P6 (PPM/EPPM), CPM scheduling, resource and cost loading, earned value management, and forensic delay analysis.

Most recently, Mohamed served as Planning & Scheduling Manager at Parsons Corporation for the SEVEN Entertainment Developments program — a SAR 8 billion multi-site entertainment complex in Saudi Arabia. Prior to that, he managed planning and scheduling for the KAFD Science Museum & Geo Climate Center in Riyadh ($320M) with Albawani Construction, and spent seven years as Senior Planning Engineer at National Parking Company (MAWGIF), overseeing schedule management for the Makarim Almadina 5-star hotel project.

He has a proven track record in integrating subcontractor schedules into master programs, performing DCMA 14-Point schedule quality checks, and delivering executive dashboards through Primavera P6 to Power BI integration for leadership decision-making.

Zahir Patel is a senior Project Controls professional with over 25 years of international experience delivering complex infrastructure and energy projects across Canada, the Middle East, Europe, and India. His expertise spans program management, project controls, planning and scheduling, cost management, risk management, claims management, and project financial governance for large-scale capital projects.

He has held senior leadership roles with globally recognized engineering and consulting organizations including WSP, McDermott/CB&I, Technip, and AECOM, managing and mentoring multidisciplinary project controls teams of planners, schedulers, cost engineers, and project coordinators. His work includes developing integrated project control systems, improving organizational processes, and supporting executive decision-making through advanced analytics, forecasting, and KPI reporting across all phases from Feasibility (FEL-1) through FEED, EPC execution, and commissioning.

Zahir is also the Founder and Principal Consultant of Canadian Projects Solutions Inc., through which he has supported clients such as Trans Mountain on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) — a multi-billion-dollar pipeline infrastructure project in Canada — delivering project controls leadership, schedule management, cost monitoring, and regulatory reporting.

Patrick Kain is a seasoned Engineering Contracts Adviser with over 45 years of international experience in dispute resolution, forensic delay analysis, time and cost claims, and contract management across road, rail, air, and marine infrastructure sectors. He is the Founder and Owner of Ridgeview Consultants, Pretoria, through which he has advised contractors, employers, and government entities across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Patrick has served as a Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) member on dual carriageway projects in Zanzibar, Contracts Adviser for a US$1 billion electrified standard gauge railway in Tanzania, and Chief Technical Adviser to Kenya Ports Authority on the Kivetu Oil Terminal in Mombasa (US$450M). His experience spans claim values exceeding US$3.5 billion across more than 19 countries, with deep expertise in FIDIC, NEC, and EDF conditions of contract.

A Contributing Author to the Wiley publication 'International Construction Contract Law' (both 2014 and 2018 editions) by Lukas Klee, Patrick is a Member of the Institute of Arbitrators (UK), Member of the Society of Construction Law (UK), and Member of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF).