The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Forbes Middle East’s annual list of the most powerful CEOs in the region for the year 2021 has included six Bahraini company executives. They are James Eastlack, Adel Al Laban, Ali Al Bakkali, Mikkel Vinter, Jean-Christophe Durand and Alok Gupta.
The elite list includes 100 top chief executives made up of 24 nationalities representing 21 sectors.
Saudi Arabia leads them with 18 CEOs, followed by the UAE and Egypt with 16 each, making up half of the list.
The banking and financial services sector leads the list with 29 chief executives, accounting for nearly a third of the rankings. Forbes bases its annual classification on the evaluation of the size of CEOs’ companies, based on many different criteria, most notably the size of the company in terms of revenues, assets and number of employees, as well as the personal achievements of chief executives during the past year 2020, and their impact on their companies and the sector on a wid