Darweesh Salamah

EPMO Manager

Darweesh Salamah is an EPMO and portfolio governance leader with more than 15 years of experience across strategic initiatives, infrastructure, energy, aerospace and real estate development in Saudi Arabia. He currently serves as EPMO Manager at the National Housing Company (NHC), where he supports the governance, planning, performance and execution of enterprise projects and strategic initiatives aligned with Saudi Vision 2030. His expertise spans portfolio governance, risk management, strategic execution, organisational performance and complex cross-functional transformation. His experience brings an execution perspective to the energy transition, particularly as Saudi Arabia scales electrification, EV infrastructure, resilient cities and increasingly integrated energy systems, and he focuses on the critical question behind major transformation programmes: how ambitious national targets can be converted into governed, coordinated and measurable delivery across multiple stakeholders. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Mississippi State University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, with a focus on using governance, data-driven decision-making and risk-informed execution to accelerate sustainable transformation and deliver lasting impact.