March 2, 2020, Casablanca, Hicham Kabbaj has been appointed Managing Director of JESA.

Hicham Kabbaj has over 20 years of industry leadership experience, including 7 years with JESA. He has held multiple key positions in the organization and successfully led the Growth & Sales efforts, while managing the project Services organization, and until recently the Mining & Industry operations.

Over the course of his career, he has gained a broad experience with companies in a range of industries where he held roles of increasing responsibility. After his university studies in Purdue in Indiana, he joined Bechtel Group in the United States for 9 years, where he held key positions in Project Controls and construction for mega-projects ranging from Power, Nuclear to Telecommunications.

In 2009, Hicham KABBAJ joined OCP, the World Phosphate leader, for a senior position in the Industrial Program management team who developed and delivered successfully OCP’s mega phosphate-projects.