Mohammed Shamroukh

Mohammed Shamroukh is the Co-Founder and CEO of MCube Engineering Consultants, a specialist engineering practice focused on building performance, decarbonisation, sustainability and digitalisation across the built environment.

His experience covers energy audits, HVAC optimisation, commissioning, measurement and verification, energy performance contracting, calibrated modelling, smart-building technologies and portfolio-level decarbonisation planning. His work focuses particularly on converting sustainability ambitions into practical engineering interventions, investment roadmaps and verifiable operational outcomes.

Mohammed has completed an MSc in Energy at Heriot-Watt University, with research focused on solar-assisted absorption cooling integrated with thermal energy storage for hot climates. He is also a Certified Energy Manager, (Certified) Measurement and Verification Professional, Performance Measurement and Verification Analyst, and Certified Carbon Auditing Professional, and remains actively involved in regional industry and professional associations.

Irmak Sener

Irmak Sener is a Senior Sustainability Manager at PMKConsult, leading the development of sustainability advisory services across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. She specializes in sustainable design, sustainable building certifications, embodied carbon assessment, life cycle analysis (LCA) and decarbonization of the built environment.

Prior to joining PMKConsult, Irmak worked as a Sustainability Consultant at Atelier Ten in New York, supporting sustainability strategies for commercial, educational, healthcare and mixed-use developments. She holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and is a LEED AP BD+C, Fitwel Ambassador, ActiveScore AP and Associate AIA.

Irmak is actively involved in industry leadership and education initiatives, having served on the Urban Green Council Emerging Professionals Committee and the Green Building Certifications Committee of Turkish Green Building Council, acted as a jury member for the 2024 AIA Education Facility Design Awards and the 2026 Gulf Sustainability Awards and regularly contributes as a guest lecturer and design critic at Bilkent University.

Fuaad Feroze Alam

Fuaad Feroze Alam is an architect, architectural design manager, urban-planning professional and environmental sustainability practitioner with 17+ years of multidisciplinary experience across Pakistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. His academic background combines a B.Arch, MURP and MBA in Environment & Energy Management. He also brings teaching experience as a Lecturer / Module Leader and Visiting Faculty at IoBM, and holds MMUP/UPDA Grade A professional registration in Qatar.

Paul Paterson

Paul Paterson is Founder and CEO of Elevation Carbon, an Abu Dhabi building performance consultancy working with developers across the region to set, hold and verify operational energy targets. His career has covered every side of delivery: building services design, MEP contracting, client-side technical advisory, and operations leadership for a major developer. That path gave him a clear view of how energy commitments are lost between concept and handover. His work on John Lewis York, which carried a design model into operation, received a CIBSE Building Performance Award.

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Dr. Samiullah Khan

Dr. Samiullah Khan is an internationally recognized sustainability leader, strategist, climate innovator, and strategic advisor with over 30 years of global multidisciplinary experience spanning engineering, smart infrastructure, renewable energy, circular economy, and climate technology. Currently serving as the Chief Sustainability Officer of National Development Consortium UAE, he operates at the forefront of the region's green transition, translating ambitious climate commitments into practical, commercially viable, and scalable solutions.

As a UN-certified Climate Champion and a strategic consultant to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGP), Dr. Khan possesses executive education from MIT and Cambridge. He has successfully led transformative sustainability initiatives across the Middle East and internationally, helping governments, real estate developers, and multinational corporations reduce emissions, enhance climate resilience, and align seamlessly with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UAE Net Zero 2050 vision.

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