Hassan Salim Shashaa

Eng. Hassan Salim Shashaa is Chief Operating Officer at Emirates Steel. In this role, he leads operation and maintenance functions and participates in setting the corporate strategy in close coordination with the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer, and Board of Directors.

Shashaa brings to his role a wealth of experience spanning 40 years in the heavy industry sector and holds proven expertise in leading all production-related functions, building teams to achieve set targets, and ensuring sustainability with a keen commercial sense.

Over the last 13 years, Shashaa also completed tenures at Emirates Steel as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Development, Sales and Marketing as well as Advisor to the CEO.

Prior to joining Emirates Steel, he worked for 21 years with Bahrain-based Gulf Industrial Investment Company as Production Manager and later as General Manager, Sales, and Marketing. He started his career as Project Engineer at Jordan Fertilizer Industry (Jordan Phosphate Mines Company) where he served for six years.

Eng. Hassan Salim Shashaa holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wales in the UK, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the American University of Beirut.