{"id":2864,"date":"2023-11-17T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:25:09","slug":"meeza-cfo-james-corby-is-a-touchdown-middle-east-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/meeza-cfo-james-corby-is-a-touchdown-middle-east-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"MEEZA CFO James Corby is a Touchdown Middle East Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2865\" src=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/James-Corby-510x582-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"360\" \/>We are thrilled to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jrsc1980\/\"><strong>James Corby<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><strong> Chief Financial Officer at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeza.net\/\"><strong>MEEZA<\/strong><\/a> is a Speaker for Touchdown Middle East 2023! James will feature the fireside chat <strong><em>Masterclass: Entering the Qatar market <\/em><\/strong>which will take place on<strong>\u00a0Day 2, 22<sup>nd<\/sup> November at 14:30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has overseen a number of major deployments and continues to see more Government support to see foreign investors come to the market. This masterclass Fireside Chat will look at the opportunities and challenges of entering the Qatari market and what lessons can be learned from past projects.<\/p>\n<p>James is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and the Chief Financial Officer at MEEZA.\u00a0He has over 22 years\u2019 experience in all areas of finance and 16 years\u2019 experience working in Telecoms and IT for several international companies.\u00a0James has overseen the execution of MEEZA\u2019s Data Centre strategy, adding 3 new Data Centre\u2019s that near doubled the Company\u2019s IT capacity.\u00a0Most recently he was a key contributor in the successful completion of MEEZA\u2019s IPO on the Qatar Stock Exchange with an over-subscribed order book.<\/p>\n\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_778792941\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"is-border\"\n\t\tstyle=\"border-color:rgb(244, 187, 24);border-width:10px 10px 10px 10px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<h4><strong>Need to know:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0James Corby, Chief Financial Officer, MEEZA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fireside Chat \u2013\u00a0<strong><em>Masterclass: Entering the Qatar market<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 14:30 | Day 2 | 22nd November<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track<\/strong>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #f4bb18;\"><strong>REGIONAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Take a look at the full\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/touchdownme.com\/en\/agenda\/\"><em>Touchdown Middle East 2023 Agenda.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_778792941 {\n  padding-top: 15px;\n  padding-bottom: 15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-1298529145\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1298529145 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"social-icons follow-icons full-width text-center\" style=\"font-size:112%\"><span>Connect with this Speaker<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jrsc1980\/\" data-label=\"LinkedIn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon primary button circle tooltip linkedin\" title=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" aria-label=\"Follow on LinkedIn\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><i class=\"icon-linkedin\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that James Corby, Chief Financial Officer at MEEZA is a Speaker for Touchdown Middle East 2023! 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