Ian Hume is the Sales Director for Emerging markets at JLG Industries Inc. He oversees the overall sales and operations for JLG Industries throughout the Middle East, Africa and India region. Ian joined JLG in 2017 and has over 11 years of experience in the equipment industry.

Wayne Taylor is a professional in the crane and access sectors with more than 35 years of experience in the business, spread over Europe, the UK and the UAE.
Since the formation of Safelift LLC in 2009, Wayne has been a driving force in the UAE in improving safety when working at height across a wide range of industries and sectors. He takes pride in ensuring that all equipment supplied by Safelift, an ISO 9001 registered organisation, have valid third-party inspection certificates and the company maintains an uncompromising approach to Health, Safety and Environmental concerns.

Mike Yates has lived and worked in the Middle East region for nearly 25 years, working in sales and business development activities for dealers and manufacturers after similar roles in the UK. Mike joined the JCB Sales organisation in 2006 and covers the territory from Lebanon in the west through to Pakistan in the east. His current role includes imparting product training to dealer sales staff across the region and business development work in both Iraq and Pakistan.

Sharbel Kordahi is a well-known name in the equipment industry in the Middle East. He brings over 17 years of experience in the Middle East and Africa, 10 of which have been with Terex and its AWP brand Genie. During his time with Terex, Sharbel has held various responsibilities within the corporation, including Managing Director of the fully autonomous material handling and post-solution business units between 2015 and 2017.

Sharbel joined Terex in 2009 – a challenging time for the industry in the region as well as for the global economy. He has been vital for reshaping and redirecting the work structure to the new conditions, which gave Terex AWP the acceleration it needed to get its stance in the market. Before joining Terex, Sharbel worked for the giant manufacturer of cleaning equipment, Karcher, as a Middle East Director.

You may bump into Sharbel in one of the Fitness First gym chains in Dubai or during his regional travels, in a hotel gym facility. Sharbel’s passion is pumping iron, which is no surprise to anyone who has met him!

Neil Doherty is Chief Engineer for NPD & BIM Deployment at JLG Industries Inc. He has overall responsibility for defining the EMEA region’s technical product requirements and developing EMEA’s Digital Products Strategy. Neil joined JLG in 2012 to deliver key projects such as JLG’s RS Telehandler range and has recently launched the new BIM Library.

Neil has over 23 years of experience in off-highway product development, working on a wide range of products from engines to excavators to dozers and more recently access platforms.  He has worked across design, project management and manufacturing, and spent 7 years as a certified Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt.

He believes that to develop great products you must fully understand the job your customer is doing and produce a product that solves a problem and enhances the user experience.

Neil is a professional engineer with an Honors degree in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a Masters in Business Administration.

Rajesh is a member of staff for UAE-based rental company Al Laith. and is also a certified PASMA trainer who regularly conducts work-at-height training in the region for scaffolding work on important projects.

PASMA is the international not-for-profit authority for the mobile access tower industry. PASMA strives to continually advance standards and good practice as well as develop and refine the industry led training scheme.  Providing advice, guidance and support to its many members, the industry, government bodies while building a positive, proactive safety culture central to its role.

The association works closely with regulatory authorities, trade associations and professional bodies world-wide and is helping to shape and support the future of the mobile access tower industry.

PASMA contributes wherever possible to the development and continuous improvement of relevant standards, in fact PASMA’s Technical Director chairs the committee currently reviewing EN1004.

In the UAE PASMA works closely with Dubai Municipality, OSHAD, EXPO 2020 and others.

Gary Cooke is Regional Sales Manager for Terex AWP and also a council member for IPAF Middle East. Working in the region since 1995 and in the access industry since early 1997, he is an experienced hand in the access rental industry across the Middle East, and has spread the concepts of the industry in the region during this time, helping people work safely at height.

With a background in engineering, Gary joined the access industry in 1997 as a sales manager with Rapid Access. After introducing powered access into the local construction market he was tasked with taking the product across the region with the final depot opened in Kuwait in 2000, completing a GCC network of five countries. He also later headed the Blue Sky project for Rapid Access in the Middle East, in which Rapid began to offer additional attachments fitted to the machines, such as secondary guarding systems, to help mitigate risks of accidents while working at height.

Gary joined Terex AWP in 2016 to head the regional sales office for Genie in Dubai. He manages Genie’s dealer network, rental partners and key accounts across the region, focusing on delivering purposeful innovation to the industry and helping make working at height as safe a job as it can be.