Who’s attending the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh?
The Future Investment Initiative is set to start in October 23, that’s 3 days from now. After the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brought to light numerous media outlets, CEOs, company representatives and other high authority figures have announced their choice not to go the event. But the question remains: who is still attending the FII in Saudi Arabia?
The official website does offer a list of partners, not up to date:
The website has not been updated to reflect the change:
- HSBC banking chiefs has publicly announced their choice of not attending
- Credit Suisse has pulled out (although a report from americanbanker.com suggests they will be sending representatives)
- Mastercard CEO will not be going to FII
- Siemens will not attend.
As per the speakers: This URL: http://futureinvestmentinitiative.com/en/2018/speakers points to http://www.futureinvestmentinitiative.com/en/home
Fortunately Google saved it.
Tidbit: this URL from Deloitte: https://www2.deloitte.com/xe/en/pages/about-deloitte/events/future-investment-initiative-2018.html is 404'd. Anyone has it?
Who is going: Public information:
- Deloitte, Boston Consulting, McKinsey, PWC
- Anthony Scaramucci
- “Peter Rawlinson, CTO of Lucid Motors is one of the few Western executives reportedly still planning to attend the event.”
- George Atta, global smart city leader at Ernst Young
- Mehmood Khan, vice-chairman of PepsiCo
- PM Khan
- BAE Systems Plc (Defense contractor)
- SWFI
- Goldman will still send representatives to the summit
- Aramco
- Riskalyze CEO
- SAP Europe
- Investor Jim Breyer
- EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy
Based on the cached Google list, we can determine that the following speakers will attend the summit, based on the fact that there is no public information stating otherwise:
- Makram Azar — Chairman of Banking, EMEA & Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC
- Hazem Ben-Gacem — Co-CEO, Investcorp
- Roland Berger —said it was reviewing its position. (post will be updated with final decision)
- Thales Group — company will be represented, CEO not going.
- Amanda Clack — Head of Strategic Consulting, CBRE
- Matt Barnard — Plenty CEO
- Katerra CEO
- Steven J. Demetriou — Chairman & CEO, Jacobs
- Seifi Ghasemi — Air Products & Chemicals
- Avram Glazer — Chairman, Manchester United Football Club Limited (Source from October 15 suggest he is attending the summit)
- Bill Gossman — CEO, Healthtap
- Paul Holthus — CEO, World Ocean Council
- David Hunt — President & CEO, PGIM
- Vinod Khosla — CEO, Khosla Ventures
- Kai Fu Lee — Chairman & CEO, Sinnovation Ventures
- Andrew N. Liveris — Former Chairman & CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
- Boon Chye Loh — CEO, Singapore Exchange Ltd (As of October 27 he’s already in Riyadh)
- Ming Maa — President, Grab
- Kanetsugu Mike — President & CEO, MUFG Bank LTD (editorial)
- Rajeev Misra — CEO, SB Investment Advisers
- Nick Moakes — Chief Investment Officer, Wellcome Trust
- Ken Moelis — Chairman & CEO, Moelis & Company (“Ken Moelis, whose boutique bank advised the Saudi government on its efforts to take the national oil company public, and Eric Cantor, a former U.S. congressman who now works for Mr. Moelis, are still planning to attend, a spokeswoman for Mr. Moelis confirmed Monday.”)
- Alex Dimitrief, President and CEO of GE Global
- Ronald O’Hanley, State Street President and COO
- Lubna S. Olayan — CEO & Deputy Chairperson, Olayan Financing Company (self explanatory)
- Ralf Reichert — CEO, ESL Gaming
- Magnus Resch — CEO, Magnus
- Andrew P. Sillitoe — Co-CEO & Partner, Apax Partners LLP
From their Advisory list, still attending:
- Peter Thiel (Article from October 18)
… “Reporters attending the Riyadh investment conference have been sent an email to inform them that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (Mbs) will not be speaking at the event.”
NOTE: Last updated: 23/10 at 9:22 UTC. Comment below if you spot any updates on who and who is not going.
