Sherif Salah

Sherif Salah is a senior industrial operations leader with over two decades of experience across the industrial sector, specializing in operations management with a sustained focus on asset management and operational excellence. His career spans leading organizations including IFFCO, Holcim, and CEMEX, where he is known for translating strategy into disciplined execution and measurable operational improvement.

Sherif leads the design and enterprise deployment of corporate programs across asset strategy, reliability improvement, maintenance excellence, and operational performance; supporting both process and discrete manufacturing environments. His scope includes strengthening asset management systems and governance, advancing reliability engineering and lifecycle practices, accelerating digital and condition-monitoring adoption, and delivering tangible outcomes in uptime, cost efficiency, and safety through structured continuous-improvement methodologies.

He combines strong business acumen with deep operational insight, enabling him to align reliability, performance, and cost priorities with broader organizational objectives. Sherif is recognized for leading transformative change in complex, multi-site environments; standardizing ways of working, elevating operational standards, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across diverse regions, cultures, and corporate structures.

A people-focused leader, Sherif integrates modern neuroscience-informed change practices to strengthen adoption, engagement, and sustainable behavioural shifts. He is also recognized for building aligned, high-performing teams and strengthening organizational capability; empowering local ownership while ensuring consistency of execution at scale, and establishing practical systems, routines, and governance that sustain results over time.