Dr. Kelly Salame

Dr. Kelly’s industry experience is vast, twenty plus strong years as an experienced professional that has spent his career across geographies around the globe. He has started his career as an entrepreneur in F&B after which he transitioned into oil and gas, in his home country, Canada; began in the field across many applications, has seen his career move him around the globe-from Europe to Asia, North America, and across the Middle East.  Dr. Kelly's career advanced from field-based to sales and commercial, eventually leading him into operational leadership, project management, and overall local, regional, and global leadership initiatives. 

Dr. Kelly is fluent bilingual, an honorary graduate of the electrical engineering program; has a master's in business majoring in oil and gas management, a master’s in applied business research, and a doctorate in business administration majoring in energy transition and hydrogen. He also holds a distinguished certificate, from INSEAD, in "Sustainability Leadership for Sr. Executives" that focuses on sustainable finance, circular economies, sustainability reporting, and overall sustainability initiatives and advancements. 

He has worked for several major international corporations, across various geographies, leading complicated profit and loss initiatives; leadership spanning across the entire breadth of the organization inclusive but not limited to HR, finance, operations, sales and commercial, technology, engineering, localization initiatives and strategies, contractual management and optimization, and many other local, regional, and global assignments.  He is the recipient of the "General Electric's Presidential Golden Award" for most outstanding sales and commercial regional initiatives and results, Middle East; also, recipient for the" Louise Mckinney" scholarship award, Canada.

Dr. Kelly is an advocate for leading a healthy life, DEI, work-life-school balance, and strongly believes in "a healthy mind is in a healthy body". Active outdoors, devoted to walking and the gym, and empowers active classes that are full of life and energy.