Ata Elyas

Head of Procurement

Ata Elyas is head of procurement at Saudi Awwal Bank, with more than twenty years of experience in procurement and business development across several industries, including spells at SABIC, Petro Rabigh, Siemens and Mobily. At Mobily he was general manager of procurement strategy and partnerships and general manager of general and commercial procurement, and at Siemens he was director of procurement. At Saudi Awwal Bank he led a procurement and operating model transformation that contributed to lowering the bank's cost to income ratio, and moved more than forty per cent of its procurement processes onto the SAP Business Network with a target of eighty per cent.