IBX Awards – Inspirational Male Leader Award 2019

GSD® CEO Graham Shapiro was announced as the winner of an International Business Excellence (IBX) Award in Dubai 2019, as Inspirational Male Leader.

The International Business Excellence Awards recognise business excellence from across the world. The Finals and the Awards Ceremony was the culmination of an engaging and exciting awards journey for all participants, in their respective fields of endeavour .
The Awards are recognised as a prestigious international occasion as part of the celebrated festival for business, an unprecedented success for the people and government of the United Arab Emirates.
‘Awards International’ provide high-level expertise to stage the awards and succeed in attracting the interest of a formidable array of management intellectuals, business leaders and consultants from around the world.
The clear aim of the awards programme is to create a vehicle for sharing best practice and to promote continuous improvement as a path toward personal development
The Finals and Awards Ceremony for the International Business Excellence Awards 2016 were held on the 29th and 30th of June 2016 in Dubai. The two-day event was an exciting affair celebrating business excellence and “best practice” from around the world.

On receiving the award for ‘Inspirational Male Leader’, Graham Shapiro said:
“Thank you to the IBX judges for their nomination, everyone at The IBX Awards and The Dubai Government. I would like to congratulate all of the incredible finalists in my category*. I have the greatest possible respect for where this journey has brought them, well done. It is important for me to say how much I respect the scale of their collective business achievements. They are all incredible leaders and for this reason, I am honoured and indeed, humbled to be happy to count myself amongst them and be considered for this award. To win this award is truly outstanding.”

*The other finalists in the Inspirational Male Leader category were: Anis Sajan – Milano – Danube Group, Mahmoud Awad – Concorde Corodex Bristol, Jaber Almarar – Aldhafra hospitals, Ramesh Gopal – Deutsche Bank AG, Abdalla Al-Tamimi – 3mushrooms marine consultancy, Adam McEwan – Platinum Heritage Group and Jad Toubayly – Idealz Enterprises LLC.