International Mice Summit

His Excellency Fahd Bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed was appointed by Royal Decree as Advisor in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2023. He plays a key role in some of the most significant development projects and initiatives under Vision 2030.

H.E. Al-Rasheed currently serves on several boards and committees, including the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, Riyadh Foundation, New Murabba Development Company, Diriyah Company, Qiddiya Investment Company, Hevolution Foundation, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), King Saud University, Expo 2030 Development Company, and Riyadh Art. He also chairs the Saudi Conventions and Exhibitions General Authority and has represented the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a lead on Urban 20 since 2020.

H.E. Al-Rasheed was formerly the CEO of the Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC), the authority in charge of the capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he oversaw the transformation of Riyadh into a top global city for investment, tourism, and livability by 2030. Before RCRC, H.E. Al-Rasheed served as the Group CEO and Managing Director of King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), the world’s first publicly traded city and one of the largest private sector projects globally. Before joining KAEC, he served as the Deputy Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (now the Ministry of Investment).

H.E. Al-Rasheed holds a BSc from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Stanford University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program in Real Estate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2011.

Sven Bossu joined AIPC as CEO in May 2020. Together with the Board, the Members and the Business Partners he has implemented a transformation programme which has resulted into an entirely new value proposal to Convention and Exhibition Centres across the globe based on the changing needs of the members and the challenges they are facing.
Before joining AIPC, Sven worked as Managing Director at ESTRO (European Society for Radiation Oncology). He successfully led the branding, marketing and digital transformation of ESTRO – a massive project which was finalized in April 2020. It included a full re-branding, implementation of a new CMS and CRM system, the creation and implementation of a marketing strategy and a complete re-vamp of the annual congress.

Prior to joining ESTRO, Sven worked for 20 years in the financial services world. The first 10 years of his career he worked as an international programme manager at ING, followed by 10 years at SWIFT – the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications. At SWIFT, Sven oversaw Sibos – SWIFT’s flagship event that brings together over 8,000 decision-makers from more than 150 countries for four days of discussions on the key challenges and shared solutions facing the global financial community.

Greg Hitchen is the Group CEO of Terrapinn, a global events company. With over 35 years in the industry, Greg has been instrumental in growing Terrapinn's global event brands, platform and footprint. Having worked directly in Australia, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, USA, and Latin America, he now focuses on growing Terrapinn through acquisitions and value creation. He champions events as a rewarding career within Terrapinn's creative, merit-based culture.

Terrapinn is the largest privately owned (non-PE) events company in the world and is in the top twenty of global exhibition organisers.

At Terrapinn, the company looks forward to the opportunities that AI will bring to its business, its people, and the industry.

As CEO of the Messe München Group, Stefan Rummel is driving the global expansion and oversee all capital and consumer goods shows worldwide with well-known brands such as bauma, IFAT and IAA Mobility. Within the group, his responsibilities also includes Corporate Strategy & Innovation, M&A, People and Culture, Corporate Governance, IT as well as the Operational Services. He started his career as a consultant and joined Messe München in 2011. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) and a member of the Board of Directors of The Saudi Conventions & Exhibitions General Authority (SCEGA).

Chris Skeith OBE has served in the exhibition industry for over 30 years, and is Managing Director & CEO of UFI, The Global Association for the Exhibition Industry, which represents over 900 organisations in over 90 countries who build, maintain, and support the world’s market places: trade show organisers, venue owners and operators, service providers, and national as well as international associations of our industry.

Chris has built a career in the not-for-profit sector, starting his exhibition career in media auditing at ABCUK, moving to the associations sector in 2006, merging two event associations in the service supplier sector to form ESSA, and in 2010, he also ran the venues association, AEV, in the UK. In 2014, he took the role of CEO of the organisers association, AEO which represents UK-based organisers who operate worldwide.
During this time, he held voluntary positions to raise the profile of the sector to Government and regulators, including Chair of UKEVENTS, and served as an UFI Board Member and chair of their associations committee.

In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021, he was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, for services to the Events Industry.