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Senior Management Team

The Institute has a strong management group consisting of staff who have held senior positions in the UK public and private training sectors and who also have successful experience in the Middle East and especially in Kuwait.

Mr. Maurice Collis is the General Manager of HRD/BITE and has over 30 years experience in Training, Management Development and Human Resource activity. For 20 years he operated at Manager and Director Human Resources level with Royal Mail, UK and subsequently at Director level with national retail companies. In 1994 his work with BeWise the National Retain company led to the company receiving a Training Award (first prize) in the large company grouping.

In 1996 he established his own Management Development and Training Consultancy with a focus on National Vocational Qualifications working with major UK companies. During this period also he obtained the NVQ level 4 in Training and Development (equivalent to first degree) and also became an External Verifier for the Institute of Personnel and Development (UK).

In 1998 he came to Kuwait as Organisation Development Director for the Public Warehousing Company and National Real Estate Company. In January 2001 he became General Manager of HRD International dedicated to provided Training, Management Development and HR services throughout Kuwait. These services are provided to the Sultan Center, NREC, PWC, KPC, Alghanim Industries, Gulf Bank, Commercial Bank, Burgan Bank, House of Trade, Al-Sayer, Al-Mulla and other smaller companies. In April 2002 HRD merged with BITE and he became General Manager of both companies.

Mrs. Lloyd has over 25 years experience of education and training at all levels. This includes 11 years experience in UK government colleges including Head of a Business and Management Studies Department and consequently in-depth knowledge of the whole range of thinking in this field from basic vocational training to Bachelor Degree level. In addition to this, she was for over 10 years, a main board Director of Pitman International Training, London UK one of the largest and best known UK training companies. Mrs. Lloyd was responsible for managing and developing 6 established distance learning centres and all overseas franchising operations. She was responsible for the development of the well known Pitman Colleges in Kuwait and Bahrain and her experience of Kuwait dates back to the mid 1980s. Mrs. Lloyd has experience of developing training programmes in other overseas countries including Indonesia, Taiwan, Turkey and Greece. She also has experience at Chief Examiner level for UK public examination boards and educational publishing and training programme design for the UK public sector. Mrs. Lloyd came to Kuwait in 1993 as Director of a large International School and training consultant for the same company. In 1995 she became Chief Executive of the British Institute of Training & Education.

In October 2002, as a result of the merger between BITE & HRD, Mrs. Lloyd moved to Head Office and is now Director of Training & Business Development, and also Director of newly established Kuwait-Maastricht Business School.

Mrs. Lloyd is a member of the British Institute of Management and the British Institute of Directors.

Mr. O'Donnell has over 30 years experience of education and training including over 8 years of senior education management. He was a Head of the Arabic at the Dept. Defence School of Languages for 5 years and has spent 7 years as a consultant to the British Ministry of Defence on Middle East issues. Mr. O'Donnell has experience of managing and delivering English language training programmes both in the UK and in Kuwait including a period at the RAF School of Education and Training. He has extensive and varied experience of language programme design, management of teaching teams, training administration and language evaluation. Mr. O'Donnell is a fluent Arabic speaker, a member of the British Institute of Linguists and holds the UK Civil Service Interpretership in Arabic (first class). He has extensive knowledge of the Middle East and its characteristics as well as an in depth understanding of the people of the Gulf Region.

Mrs. Kalaf has over 15 years of experience in the Administrative field, she has worked in Kuwait, Lebanon and Canada and is fluent in Arabic, English and French. For 7 years she lead the department of Business, Secretarial and Computer Training with The British Institute of Training and Education. Mrs. Kalaf has designed and implemented several training programmes related to the administrative and computer fields. She is an experienced trainer whose Kuwait based clients include KPC, KOC, KIA, KOTC,KNPC, Saudi Arabian Texaco, Public Warehousing Corporation, Bader Sultan, Al-Ahlia Industrial Projects, KIPCO, Al-Salam Hospital, BKME, MH Al Shaya Group and the Ministries of Education, Commerce and Communications.

Mrs. Kalaf has also managed Pitman Qualifications (UK) programmes towards both the Secretarial & Administration and the Software Applications Diplomas at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) since 2000.

Mrs. Kalaf believes in continuous self-development and updating skills and techniques. She has during the past years extended her knowledge and skills by attending several courses and seminars in the fields of Business administration, Computing and Psychology. She is currently upgrading her professional career through the University of Phoenix (USA).

Working in Arabian Gulf since 1979.

Retail banking led to training and language teaching with vocational qualifications located in Dubai, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Joined HRD International to set-up the Enterprise Centre after heading up Al-Amana Investment.

Mr. Harrison has over twenty years experience in the training and education fields with over eight years being spent in Kuwait and the Gulf area. He has had extensive experience in the management of Training Design, Development and Delivery in Australia, the South Pacific and South East Asian areas, as well as in the Middle East. During his 15 years as an Officer in the Royal Australian Navy he was responsible for the design, construction and running of several specialised Military Training Schools, which included the disciplines of Disaster Management, Fire Fighting, Damage Control and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence. He has provided consulting advice for the rebuilding of Kuwaiti Navy's training system and ship acquisition programmes. Mr Harrison has also designed and implemented Train the Trainer programmes, Management and Leadership Seminars, and Disaster Management Planning sessions for the Military, Government and private sectors.

He enjoys a strong history in Business Development and Quality Control and has had a wide variety of successes as a consultant to, and trainer for the Military, Business and Oil sectors in the Middle East.

Mr Harrison speaks French and has an in depth understanding of international and cross cultural training and business, particularly as applied to Kuwait and the Gulf Region.

Mr. Suhail Dajani, BSc

Projects Manager

Mr. Dajani, who is currently managing HRD International / Manpower & Government Restructuring Programme 'Kuwaiti Training & Employment Programme' , has extensive experience of education and training management both in Kuwait and the United States. This includes the management of major training centres with over 45 multi-national teaching staff as well as individual training programmes. These programmes over a wide variety of students and trainees and include 2 year Training Diploma courses in Secretarial Studies, one year programmes for preparation of students awarded overseas scholarships and full time Diploma Courses in Applied Accounting.

Mr. Dajani is fully bilingual (English / Arabic) has additional experience of business management in the US and of working in the oil sector in Kuwait. He has a thorough grasp of the training sector in Kuwait as well as an in depth understanding of social, cultural and business characteristics of the Gulf Region.