This document provides a summary of Ali El Rayyes' professional experience and qualifications. He has over 16 years of experience in quality management and process improvement in the FMCG/petrochemical industries. Currently he is the Senior Department Manager of Process Control, Harbour & Oil Logistics at Afia International Company in Saudi Arabia, where he leads teams and drives certification to various quality and food safety standards. He holds a PhD in Industrial Chemistry and has extensive experience in research and applying analytical techniques.

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Ali El Said Hassan El Rayyes
Manufacturing Professional
Profile: Director /General Manager In Quality & Process Improvement in FMCG/ Petrochemicals Industry
An ambitious, result oriented and highly qualified resource holding a doctorate in industrial chemistry and working as
Department Manager with 16+ years comprehensive experience in chemistry & refining of edible oils with proven track
record in leveraging domain expertise and skills set in leading manufacturing team in areas of quality, safety and
hygiene in consumer packs of edible oils, within the FMCG sector.
Core Competencies include…
Research & Analysis ~ TQM ~ Target Oriented ~ Product Development ~ Lean Manufacturing ~ Process Control in
Refining ~ Technical Prowess ~ Project Execution ~ Team Building & Leadership
PROFILE OVERVIEW
 Highly research oriented with research interests in catalysts characterization using laser induced fluorescence
spectroscopy, analysis of food additives and contaminants using different spectroscopic and chromatographic
methods of analysis, dynamics of the excited state proton transfer reactions, & computational chemistry
 Domain expertise in working with and interpreting data from various spectrophotometers- Uv-Vis, IR, Fluorescence
and Pico-second Laser spectrophotometers; computational studies on ground & excited states of chemical reactions;
Hands-on-experience in probing & negotiating to win contracts & offer value added solutions
 As certified internal auditor for ISO 9001:2008 QMS, ISO 14001:2004 EMS, OHSAS 18001:2007 & HACCP, effectively
leveraged knowledge of quality & food safety to manage all projects and extensive internal audits to verify
systems/processes in highly competitive environments; ability to prioritize and manage multiple task
 A key change agent in the implementation of the master TPM plan to develop organizational capabilities, reduce
cost and removing waste using Kaizens, 5S’s and DEMAIC tools
 Highly motivated with ability to probe solid catalyst properties e. g., acidity and polarity, by inclusion of a probe
molecule into the catalyst channels and cages, and measuring its fluorescence and excited state lifetime
 Verifiable track record in defining technology needs to deliver value add solutions, and clearly articulate plans for
operational excellence; having established an acidity and polarity scale for solid catalysts based on the lifetimes of
an adsorbed probe molecule
 Deft in corporate decision making to improve productivity and meet organizational objectives; Hard working with
capability to conduct chemical analysis and identify compounds/ materials using GC, GC-MS and HPLC and using
other state of art spectroscopic techniques in development project
 Enthusiastic with outstanding communication and organizational skills; proficiency in teaching and training with
demonstrated competency to train teams in new technology
 Strong analytical skills to study statistical and historical data on identify root cause of quality problems and
prioritize on problem solving process and apply quality improvement programmes.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Afia International Company, Jeddah, KSA
(A part of Savola Group, producing & selling 440,000- 450,000 MT edible oils on annual basis; with brands such as Al Arab and
Afia in consumer goods sector with market leadership position in Saudi Arabian B2C & B2B markets for Palm Olien, Palm Stearin,
Corn, Sun Flower, Soya & High Oleic SF cooking oils)
Senior Department Manager- Process Control, Harbour & Oil Logistics (Jan 2014 to date)
(Reporting to the Director- Plant Operations with 4 direct reportees & 36 departmental employees)
Department Manager- Process Control, Harbour & Oil Logistics (Jan 2009– Dec 2013)
(Reported to the Director-Manufacturing & led a team of 12)
Department Manager- Process Control (Dec 2007– Dec 2008)
(Reported to the Director-Manufacturing & led a team of 3 direct reportees with total 12 department employees)
Supply Chain Capabilities Development Manager (Feb 2006– Nov 2007)
(Reported to the Supply Chain Director)
Responsibilities:
As Senior Department Manager- Process Control, Harbour & Oil Logistics, spearhead efforts to design & execute
business operations as per defined Key Performance Indicators-
• Ensure adherence to SOPs & GMP to control packaging rejections in refineries as well as track inventory of raw oils
& chemicals to eliminate waste.

2. • Drive certification process in refineries and harbour to meet all BRC, ISO, HACCP, & food safety norms.
• Manage entire fleet and ensure availability; while overseeing all aspects of demurrage, buying losses, and claims
control if any; besides explore options for the sale of refinery by-products.
• Conduct timely (monthly/quarterly) review to monitor department progress and report KPI’s to management.
Accomplishments:
• Initiated measures and established workable loss elimination ideas/ plans on the plant.
• Proposed innovative ideas for handling & filling RBD Olein that facilitated in reducing refining costs.
• Dexterously led projects to improve harbour infrastructure with new ship unloading pipelines on the harbour along
with increase in storage capacity.
• Rendered support to QA, Operations & Plant Management teams to implement food safety and QMS such as AIB,
ISO 9001 & ISO 22000.
• Provided strategic direction and support to operations & plant management team to improve the processing
efficiency & utilizations, chemicals & utilities consumptions and implement HS&E best practices.
As Department Manager - Process Control, Harbour & Oil Logistics, spearheaded oil lifting operations from port to
plant and ensured availability of all types of oils for production as per the set Key Performance Matrices-
• Managed overall oil shipment receiving operations at the port and duly monitored ship unloading to minimise
demurrage costs.
• Coordinated activity to control oil buying losses & ensured timely receipt of claims; handled inventory control of
raw oils & chemicals and eliminated wastes
Accomplishments:
• Overhauled industrial waste disposal management, while adhering to all statutory regulations and met legal
requirements of the government bodies.
• Revamped refineries & packaging rejection control and strictly adhered to framed SOPs & GMP that helped
qualifyied in process audits for ISO 9001:2008 QMS, HACCP & OHSAS 18001 certification.
• Ably steered efforts to achieve higher productivity in cargo handling onboard ships, resulting in substantial
decrease in expected demurrage costs by 95% on YOY basis.
• Made noteworthy contribution to modify existing business practises to achieve value chain efficiency & reduce oil
buying losses by 100%.
• Initiated bold steps to sell by-products with generated aggregate income of SR 5 Million
• Essayed net saving of 1% in oils & 15% in chemicals consumption vs. BOM through innovative change
management.
• Adeptly piloted efforts to achieve 50% reduction in rejections that helped in improving the bottom line.
• Played a stellar role to drive loss elimination project for oils & chemicals, & deftly achieved net savings of SR 3.5
Million, SR 5.6 Million, SR 9.3 Million, SR 11 Million, SR 12 Million, SR 11 Million, SR 6 Million in 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
As Department Manager- Process Control, implemented, maintained, and improved HACCP & quality systems in the
refinery and production sections; studied and optimized crude oils refining process vs. standards as per the specified
Key Performance Indicators-
• Explored steps to streamline process operations & apply GMP to optimize chemicals consumption and refining loss
vs. BOM as well as optimized utilities consumptions.
• Accountability to control inventory of raw oils & chemicals while ensuring on time availability of quality products.
• Participated in call for quotation, meet vendors, negotiated terms and signed contracts.
• provided excellent ideas to reduce disposal costs in factory- industrial waste disposal & management
• Reviewed and updated all incoming raw material specifications and set new norms to comply with challenges.
Accomplishments:
• Played a critical role to prepare for environmental audits & implemented steps in ISO 14001:2004 certification for
environmental management system.
• Leadership role to achieve savings of SR 20 Million in consumption of oils & chemicals; adroitly used R & D
background to propose new chemical additives to add in refining process that resulted in big savings.
• Increased awareness in people on loss control & stopped all violations due to non conforming wastes.
• Instrumental in establishing a new experiment to determine wax content in oils.
• Made significant contribution to successfully qualifying for HACCP & British Retail Consortium (BRC) certification
in the plant.
As Supply Chain Capabilities Development Manager, tracked all incoming raw materials as per contract specifications
and in line with specified Key Performance Parameters-
• Reviewed testing methods and recommended new specifications and testing techniques
• Engaged in training & provided coaching to all manufacturing staff on quality, processes, & safety

3. Accomplishments:
• Ably increased quality, safety & process awareness among all staff by providing value added need based training.
• Successfully introduced new experiments for oils & packing material testing & conceptualised innovative ideas for
loss control.
Previous Employment History:
Assistant Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA (Sep 2003- Jan 2006)
Research Associate (Sep 2001-Aug 2003); Lecturer-B (Sept 1997- Aug 2001); & Research Assistant ( Sept 1995-
Aug1997)
Role: Conducted research and taught undergraduate courses with lecture & lab in General Chemistry (Chem 101 & 102)
& Organic Chemistry (Chem 201 & 202); also handled lectures and recitations on General Chemistry (Chem 101 & 102)
while studying during PhD degree; earlier assisted in teaching & Studying during MSc degree
Research Assistant, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt (1993-1994)
Role: Conducted teaching labs in General Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, & Organic Chemistry
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
• Ph. D- Industrial Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 3.8/4 GPA (2001)
Thesis Title “Study of the Photochemical Properties of Some Organic Compounds on Molecular Sieves by using a Pico-second
Pulse Laser System”
• Masters Degree in Science- Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 3.7/4 GPA (1997)
Thesis Title “Conformational Stability and Barrier to Internal Rotation in Some Unsaturated Hydrocarbons Based on AB
Initio Calculations”
• Bachelors Degree in Science- Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt, 76%, Distinction (1992)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Participated in a full training course on change management, held at the Savola Academy, Bahrain (2006)
• Training course on TQM- Total Quality Management, at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA
• Undergone accredited training course on OHSAS 18000:2007 and qualified as an internal auditor
• Underwent training on ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Management Systems and qualified as an internal auditor.
• Completed internal auditor’s certified courses on ISO 9001:2008 QMS & ISO 14001:2004 EMS
• Session to increase effectiveness as a University Teacher, at the Academic Development Center, KFUPM (2002)
• Workshop on How to be an Effective University Teacher, at the Academic Development Center, KFUPM (2002)
• Attended 11 day long training course on WebCT, conducted at the Academic Development Center, KFUPM (2002)
• Workshop sessions on instructional technology, conducted by the Academic Development Center, KFUPM (2000)
• Attended a short course on introduction to UNIX, Information Technology Center, KFUPM (1997)
• Undergone short computer course for chemists at the Chemistry Department, KFUPM (1996)
• Completed certified trainer module to train the trainers
• Attended a full training course on managing multiple tasks & managing people concepts
PUBLICATIONS
Journals:
• Al-Betar, A. El-Rayyes and Uwe K. A. Klein (2005), “Ground and Excited states proton transfer reactions of 1,8-
diaminonaphthalene in Perchloric acid solutions” Journal of Fluorescence, 15, 689-696
• Ali A. El-Rayyes*
, Yunusa Umar (2005) “Density Functional Theoretical studies on Structures and Vibrational
Spectra of Fluorovinyl Silanimines”, The Canadian Journal of Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (CJASS), 50, 175-18
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, T. H. Maung (2005) “Excited state Phototautomerization of 8-amino-1-naphthol- 3, 6-disulfonate in
polar and acidic solutions”, The Canadian Journal of Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (CJASS), 50, 111-118
• El-Rayyes, A. Al-Betar, Than Htun, and Uwe K. A. Klein (2005) “Fluorescence emission from Rhodamine-B Lactone
adsorbed at solid catalysts”, Chem. Phys. Letter, 414, 287-291
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, Klein, Uwe K (2004) “Acidity Characterization of Tungstophosphoric Acid by using Laser Induced
Fluorescence Spectroscopy” Chem. Phys. letter, 397, 484-487
• Ali A. El-Rayyes*, T. H. Maung (2004) “Theoretical studies on the structure and hydrogen bonding of 8-amino-1-
naphthol and its one water complex”, Journal of Mol. Struct. Theochem, 681, 9-13
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, A. Al-Arfaj, Klein, Uwe K. A., Barri, S. A. I (2004) “Acidity of all-silica MCM-41- studied by laser
spectroscopy of adsorbed fluorescent probe compounds”, Catal. Letter, 97, 83-90
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, T. H. Maung (2004), “Solvents effect on the Photophysical properties of 2-anilininaphthalene”,
Spectrochim Acta Part A, 60, 1985-1989

4. • Mohamed I. M. Wazeer, Anvarhusein A. Isab and Ali El-Rayyes (2004), “Solid state NMR study of 1, 3
imidazolidine-2-thione, 1,3-imidazolidine – 2-selenone and some of their N-substituted derivatives”, Spectroscopy,
18, 113-119
• Ali. A. El-Rayyes “Structure and vibrational assignments of the various modes of Nitro-, Nitrozo-and
Aminosilanimines”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 634 (2003) 289-298
• Ali. A. El-Rayyes (2003), “Theoretical Studies on the Geometrical Structures and Vibrational Spectra of N- hydroxyl
-1-vinylsilanimines”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 624, 181-190
• Ali. A. El-Rayyes (2002), “Ab initio and Density Functional Theoretical Studies of Structures and Vibrational Spectra
of Simple Silanimines”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 617, 17-29
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, H.P. Perzanowski, Klein, Uwe K. A., Barri, S. A. I (2002), “Acidity of zeolite Y-Probed by
adsorption of 1-Naphthylamine and studied by laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy” Catal. Letter, vol. 78, 161
• H. M. Badawi and Ali A. El-Rayyes (2002), “Vibrational Spectra and Potential Energy Distributions of Normal
Modes of 3-Nitroso- and 3-Nitrocyclopropene”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem), 588 17-27
• Ali A. El-Rayyes, H.P. Perzanowski, Barri, S. A. I., Klein, Uwe K. A (2001), “New Insight into the Excited State
Proton Transfer Reactions of 1-Naphthylamine In Solution”, Journal of Phys. Chem. A., Vol. 105, 10169
• H. M. Badawi, and Ali A. Al Rayyes (1999), “An Ab Initio Calculations of Barrier to Internal Rotation in 3-Methyl -3-
Cyclo propene carboxaldehyde and 3 Methyl-3 Cyclo propene carboxylic Acid Fluoride”, Arab Journal of Science
Eng., Vol. 24A, 59
• H. M. Badawi, and Ali A. Al-Rayyes (1998), “An Ab Initio Study of the Effect of solvent on energies and Rotational
Barrier in 2,3-butadienal and 2,3-butadienoyl Fluoride and Chloride” Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem) Vol. 428, 247
• H. M. Badawi, W. Forner and Ali A. Al-Rayyes (1998), “An Investigation of Structural Stability and Internal Rotation
in 3-Cyclopropenecarboxaldehyde and 3-Cyclopropenecarboxylic Acid Fluoride by Ab Initio Calculation” Journal of
Mol. Model, Vol. 4, 158
• H. M. Badawi*, and Ali A. Al-Rayyes(1997) “Rotational Barrier in 3-Butynal and 3-Butynoyl Fluoride and Chloride
Based on Ab Initio Calculations”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem) Vol. 397, 51
• H. M. Badawi*, Ali A. Al-Rayyes and C. P. Tsonis (1997), “An Ab Initio Study of Structural Stability of Poly
(Phenylacetylene) Dimers and Trimers”, Journal of Mol. Struct. (Theochem) Vol. 394, 49
Conference Papers
• M. I. M. Wazeer, A. A. Isab, A. El Rayyes, H. P. Perzanowski, “Solid-state NMR studies and Molecular
Computations of 1, 3 imidazolidine-2 thione, 1, 3 imidazolidine-2 selenone and some related compounds”, 2nd
Saudi
Science conference, Jeddah, March 2004
• Ali El-Rayyes and Uwe K.A. Klein, “Evidence and proof of a new emitting species in acidic 1-naphthylamine
solutions” 2nd
SASC, Jeddah, KSA, 2004
• Ali El-Rayyes “Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions Of 2-Anilinonaphthalene In Aqueous Acidic Solutions”,
Submitted to 8th
International Conference on Chemistry and its Role in Development, ICCRD'8 Mansoura, Sharm El-Sheikh,
April 11-14, 2005
• Ali El-Rayyes “Acidity of Zeolite Y Probed By Laser Induced Proton Transfer Reaction of 2-Anilinonaphthalene”,
Submitted to 8th
International Conference on Chemistry and its Role in Development, ICCRD'8 Mansoura-Sharm El-Sheikh,
April 11-14, 2005
Technical Reports- Approved Funded Research Projects
• KFUPM Project #SAB-2002/05: “Quality Tests of Widely Used Vegetable Oils in Saudi Arabia by different electron
spectroscopy techniques”, M.A. Morsy (PI) and Ali El-Rayyes (CoI) (Dec 2002-Dec. 2003), submitted final report
• KFUPM Project #SAB-2003/05: “Photochemical Studies on 8-Amino-1-Naphthol-3, 6-Disulfonate by Fluorescence
Spectroscopy” by Than Htun (PI) and Ali El-Rayyes (CoI) (April 2003-April 2004), submitted final report
• KFUPM Project #SAB-2004/16: “Acidity Characterization of Solid Acids by Using the Excited State Proton Transfer
Reactions of Aromatic Amines” by Ali El-Rayyes (PI), (June 2004- Nov 2005), submitted final report
PERSONAL DETAILS
• Date of Birth : 9th Jan 1970
• Address : Afia International Company, PO Box # 30439, Jeddah 21477, Saudi Arabia
• Permanent Address : El Mattaria-Dakhlia, Azzam Street, Egypt
• Languages Proficiency: English & Arabic
• Computer Literacy : MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) & Oracle based ERP
• Nationality : Egyptian
• Passport Details : A 13203370, valid up to 22nd Sep 2021
• Visa Status : Valid transferable work visa