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Dubai, UAE: As part of the company’s regional growth strategy, Cofely Besix Facility Management (CBFM) recently appointed two new senior managers.
Martin Zobel has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and is responsible for strategic and financial planning, business performance and seeking best value across the project portfolio, arranging financing for projects and acquisitions, management of working capital and the company’s accounts and taxation.
Zobel has over 25 years of senior financial management experience in a variety of sectors including telecommunications, IT, railway engineering and operations, as well as project management consultancy. Prior to joining CBFM, he worked with Louis Berger as Chief Operations and Finance Officer for the Middle East. He is a Chartered Management Accountant.
Zobel explains, “It is an exciting time to be working within the FM industry as there are a huge variety of real estate and infrastructure projects being completed across the region, and CBFM is perfectly positioned to take advantage of these new opportunities.”
“I am keen to apply a mix of experience and ‘disruption’ to my new role and I certainly look forward to being a part of the CBFM’s success story,” added Zobel.
Vincent Montanet also joins CBFM as the company’s new Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO).
With over 25 years of commercial and operational experience in outsourced services, Montanet previously worked for the ENGIE COFELY group as UK Director of Sales, followed by 7 years working across the Middle East as General Manager for services and consultancy operations.
In his new role as CBDO, Montanet is responsible for delivering the company’s growth strategy by focusing on current and new sectors and countries.
“Our mission is on delivering sustainable growth in the region by leveraging the group’s local reach and unique capabilities in FM, asset and energy services,” explained Montanet.
“The objective is to further increase our influence on local and regional industry sectors, and to work closely with our clients in optimising increasingly challenging CAPex and OPex budgets by utilising our expertise in life-cycle management, service and energy solutions.”
“One may say that my passion to exceed customer expectations is cliché, however I find that very few organisations in this region have the solutions and resource to comprehensively deliver the short to long-term asset and energy solutions customers seek. CBFM is perfectly geared up to do all that, in-house and specific to sectors,” added Montanet.
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About Cofely Besix Facility Management
Cofely Besix Facility Management LLC is a joint-venture established in 2008 by Cofely and the BESIX Group, to provide first-class integrated facility management services in the Middle East.
Cofely is part of ENGIE, a worldwide energy leader. The Group has been present in the Middle East region for 30 years, where it develops large gas and power infrastructures and provides energy services. The BESIX Group, active for more than 50 years in the Middle East, has a wide range of experience of real estate and infrastructure construction.
The strengths of these two companies were combined in order to deliver the most critical part of facility management - the maintenance of technical installations and energy management.
Cofely Besix Facility Management delivers an Integrated Facility Management Model which provides the ability to offer multiple services on multiple sites, all through a single point of contact. That means that we offer a complete range of maintenance, cleaning, management solutions and essential multi-disciplinary trades, supported via a 24/7 call centre, to every industry sector, from residential and commercial to educational and airports.
Clients include The Emirates Group – DNATA and Emirates Airline, Emaar - Dubai Mall and the Dubai Fountains, RTA - Al Sufouh Tram, Emirates Real Estate Corporation – Higher College of Technology, Masdar, Aldar - Yas Island infrastructure and Aldar Academies, Oman Airports, Abu Dhabi Airports, IKEA, Al Qassimi Hospital, Huawei - Dubai Airport Data Centre and Etihad Esco for energy retrofits projects, to name a few.
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