Tabreed announces two major executive appointments

Tabreed announces two major executive appointments

UAE’s leading district cooling provider Tabreed has announced two key appointments - Nadia Bardawil as the chief legal counsel and Philippe Coquelle as chief development officer - effective May 1.

Lauding the appointments, Tabreed said Bardawil, who succeeds Hamish Joost, is the first female member of Tabreed’s executive management team, while Coquelle takes over from Francois-Xavier Boul, who joined as the company’s chief development officer in September 2017.

A senior lawyer, Bardawil has more than 15 years of experience in working on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Mena and Europe.

She spent 12 years at global law firm Shearman & Sterling before joining Masdar as General Counsel, where she won numerous awards for leadership and promotion of diversity and inclusion and was named as a Chambers GC Influencer on their 2019 UAE list.

Her most recent role was Senior Legal Advisor to Mubadala, where she was responsible for managing some of the group’s largest global assets.

Coquelle joins Tabreed from Engie, where he has performed numerous roles in project management, business development, project finance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) worldwide since joining in 2001, most recently as corporate M&A director at the group’s Paris headquarters.

For more than 20 years he