SBMMA Executive Advisory Board

Saudi and British Marketing and Management Association (SBMMA) is administered by an Executive Advisory Committee. The Executive Advisory Committee is comprised of the Executive Officers and the Regional Chair Representatives in Saudi Arabia and UK.

SBMMA Executive Advisory

Board Committee:

Dr. Talal Al-maghrabi(BSc, MBA, PhD, MCIM, AHEA) Chairman
Talal Al-Maghrabi (Pracademic with both an academic and an active professional practitioner) is a Director UK Marketing and Communication Academy (MarCom Academy) and consultant in Marketing, e-commerce and Management Information System. He is a Chartered Marketer and a current member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM), Associate of the Higher Education Academy (AHEA), Member of Academy of Marketing (MAM), Member of British Academy of Management (BAM). He is also the editor-in-chief for two e-journals (IJMMA and JITDA). He holds a PhD in Marketing, e-commerce from Brunel University, UK, MBA in Marketing and Information System from Kent State University, USA, and BSc in Aeronautics from Saint Louis University, USA. Additionally, he holds Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Brunel University. He worked as Director of Career Centre in the College of Business Administration (CBA), and lecturer and guest speaker with many universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia. These experiences provided vast knowledge base and global network of business contacts engaged with successful mutually profitable working relationships. His current consultation and research interests include online shopping behaviour, retailing and e-retailing, CRM, shopping mall, customer satisfaction and loyalty, loyalty programs, corporate social responsibility (CSR). He has successfully published and presented many papers.
Prof. Charles Dennis (Board Director) is Associate Editor (Retailing) of the European Journal of Marketing; and Professor of Marketing and Retailing and Director of Research Lincoln Business School, the University of Lincoln (UK). Charles is a Chartered Marketer and has been elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing for helping to modernise the teaching of the discipline. Charles was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for improving the interactive student learning experience at Brunel University. Charles has published in journals such as Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management and European Journal of Marketing. Books include Marketing the e-Business; the research monograph, e-Retailing; and research monograph Objects of Desire: Consumer Behaviour in Shopping Centre Choice. His research into shopping styles has received extensive coverage in the popular media including TV appearances with Sir Trevor McDonald OBE and Adrian Edmondson. Pure research into why people buy has led to applied research projects on both business and public funded research, making contributions to knowledge and impact of commercial value to the real world of business and the community, including for example, developing a new environmental psychology conceptual framework for shopper responses to retail atmospherics.
baderbinsaud Prince Bader Bin Saud Al Saud (PhD)
International Journalist and Weekly writer in Okaz Saudi Newspaper
Research focuses on Arab satellite TV, media ethics and the coverage of wars and conflicts
  Prof. T C Melewar PhD is Professor of Marketing and Strategy and Head of Marketing at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK. He has previous experience at Warwick Business School, MARA Institute of Technology in Malaysia, Loughborough University and De Montfort University, UK. TC teaches Marketing Management, Marketing Communications and International Marketing on a range of undergraduate, MBA, and executive courses. He is a Visiting Professor at Groupe ECS Grenoble, France and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany and is also editor of the Journal of Brand Management.

Prof. Michael Bourlakis is a Professor of Marketing at Brunel University and has produced more than 140 publications including journal papers, book chapters and conference papers. His papers have appeared in leading supply chain management, marketing and business journals. He has received funding in excess of £600,000 from various bodies including the European Union, Food Standards Agency (UK), Regional Development Agencies (UK). Michael is on the Editorial Board of six journals.

Mr. Mike Donald is Educational Consultant and headmaster of an independent school in Surrey. He has a wealth of experience as a manager of a SME operating in the education sector and has a specific interest in the fields of project management and performance management. He is the founder of Write2, an editorial
consultancy (established in 2003) offering services in academic management literature to universities worldwide.

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Mr Wajdi Al-Maghrabi has just completed an MSAin Financial Accounting-Audit at Cleveland State University and has an undergraduate degree inAccounting with a minor degree in International Business, giving me a strong background in multiaspects of today’s business. He has consistently strong academic record and has gained excellent grades throughout his education.

Mr Al-Maghrabi has about nine years of experience in the Accounting field in multiple large international companies such as P&G. He has conducted two International Business visits to China on 2001 and 2012. The visited operations include Lubrizol Corporation, Lenovo, Haworth Furniture, Shanghai National Port, China Centric Consulting, Normal University of Beijing, and Beijing Publishing House.