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Frederic Gomer

Panels · Moderation · Keynotes · Supply chain, manufacturing and industrial localisation · Based in Riyadh

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Frederic Gomer

Most industry panels end in agreement. Everyone nods, nobody is contradicted, and the room leaves with the slides it already had. Frederic Gomer is booked when an organiser wants the opposite: he builds the factories and supply chains the rest of the panel debates, so he can say the thing nobody else on stage is willing to say, and back it with what it actually cost.

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Panel speakerRiyadh International Industry Conference 202623 June 2026
  • Supply chain & logistics
  • Digital & technology

Riyadh International Industry Conference 2026

Advanced Technology Solutions for Logistics Transformation: Robotics, Drones, Autonomous Vehicles, AI, IoT

Riyadh
Panel speakerSIMEC Expo 202626 January 2026
  • Manufacturing
  • Food & agri

SIMEC Expo 2026

Smart Seafood Manufacturing: Automation, Yield Optimization & Food Safety

Riyadh
Panel speakerSaudi Made 202515 December 2025
  • Supply chain & logistics
  • Localisation & procurement

Saudi Made 2025

Bringing World-Class Supply Chain to Saudi Products

Riyadh
Panel speakerGulf 4P 20259 December 2025
  • Digital & technology
  • Manufacturing

Gulf 4P 2025

Digital Transformation in Printing & Packaging

Riyadh
ModeratorIndustrial Transformation Saudi Arabia 20253 December 2025
  • Manufacturing
  • Localisation & procurement

Industrial Transformation Saudi Arabia 2025

Foreign and National Industrial Investment in Saudi Arabia: Empowering Industrial Transformation

Riyadh
Panel speakerSaudi Agriculture 202523 October 2025
  • Food & agri
  • Supply chain & logistics

Saudi Agriculture 2025

Feeding Tomorrow: The Future of Food Processing, Packaging and Supply Chains

Riyadh
Panel speakerSaudi International Rail 202519 October 2025
  • Localisation & procurement
  • Manufacturing

Saudi International Rail 2025

Localising Saudi Arabia's Railway Sector: developing expertise, empowering local talent, ensuring sustainability

Riyadh
Panel speakerSaudi Maritime & Logistics Congress 20251 October 2025
  • Supply chain & logistics
  • Digital & technology

Saudi Maritime & Logistics Congress 2025

Smart Ports: Digital Twins, Data Ecosystems & Intelligence-driven Infrastructure

Riyadh
The timeline

From the shop
floor up

From a one-man bet in Singapore to an address in Riyadh, told through the moments that changed what he could say on a stage.

2001 Gulf

He learns the trade in the Gulf

Twenty-four years old, on plants in a region still writing its own industrial rules. He learns the only lesson that would matter later: a plan is worth nothing until someone on the floor can run it.

2011 Singapore

He bets on himself in Singapore

He leaves the safety of a salary and founds his own consultancy in Asia, from the factory floor, not from an office tower. One market, one client at a time.

2014 Paris

He starts convening the room in Paris

Rather than wait for invitations, he creates his own: supply chain VPs, every morning, arguing about what actually works in emerging markets. Four years of it.

2015 Paris

He starts teaching what he practises

ESCP Business School, Specialised Master in Purchasing and Supply Chain. The discipline goes back in front of the people who will inherit it.

2015 Southeast Asia

He proves the model travels

Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand. Four manufacturing cultures, four sets of habits, the same method, and it holds. The company is no longer a Singapore practice.

2017 Western Europe

He takes on Western Europe

France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland. Mature plants with the opposite problem. Not how to build capacity, but how to repair it without stopping the line.

2017 Paris

He is asked to teach the S&OP master class

Marcus Evans, Pullman La Défense: turning sales and operations planning from a monthly ritual into a steering instrument.

2017 Paris

He chairs "Transform or disappear"

Merial, Leroy Merlin, Schindler and Supply Chain Magazine in one room, on supply chain as the engine of transformation rather than its accounting.

2018 Paris

He puts the digital era on the agenda

Supply Chain Innovation, first edition: AI, 3D printing, IoT, debated by the people who would have to install them.

2019 Eastern Europe

He moves into Eastern Europe

Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the belt that feeds Western Europe. Greenfield, ramp-up and cost pressure arriving at the same time.

2022 The Americas

He crosses to the Americas

US, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic. He was redrawing supply chains toward the Americas before "nearshoring" became the word for it.

2024 Published

He writes the method down

The Turnaround Blueprint: the 5-10-20 approach to moving a P&L in ninety days. Rated 4.5/5 by operators, not reviewers.

2025 Saudi Arabia

He relocates to Saudi Arabia

Not a travel schedule. An address. He moves to the Kingdom to build Vision 2030 from inside it, with Aramco, SABIC, Ma'aden, Nahdi and Saudi Ceramics among the teams he has supported.

2025 Riyadh

Riyadh asks for him eight times in ten weeks

Maritime, rail, agriculture, industrial transformation, Gulf 4P, Saudi Made, one of them as moderator. Organisers do not repeat a name that often by accident.

2026 Riyadh

He joins the Riyadh International Industry Conference

Robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, AI and IoT in logistics.

2026 Published

He writes the second one

The IBP Blueprint, co-authored: a nine-phase operating model for executive teams who need results, not meetings.

"Most companies don't fail at planning. They complete it, and the business stays the same."
The IBP Blueprint, 2026
Act two

He has the standing
to say it

Anyone can be provocative on a panel. What makes it land is having done the work. Frederic has been on the ground in Saudi Arabia since 2011, taking Aramco, SABIC, Ma'aden, Nahdi and Saudi Ceramics from business case to operating asset, typically eighteen months from decision to a running facility. And long before the Riyadh circuit he ran his own room: four years convening supply chain directors from Airbus, Valeo, Philips, Leroy Merlin, Schindler and Boehringer in Paris, chairing every one of those mornings himself. So when he contradicts the comfortable answer, he is not speculating, and he already knows how to hold a room while he does it.

Why organisers ask him back

The evidence,
not the adjectives

Every line below is checkable. The first testimonial comes from a client, on camera, unscripted.

8

Stages in 12 months

Every one of them named and dated below. Riyadh panels, keynotes and executive forums, in front of the operators who have to deliver on Monday.

1

Held as moderator

On one of them he was not on the panel. He ran it. At Industrial Transformation Saudi Arabia, organisers handed him the microphone to keep the room honest.

5

Regions built in

Gulf, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Americas. He is not describing these markets from a research desk. He has operated in each of them.

“Normally consultants have a tendency to say what the boss is expecting. The conclusion was not what I was expecting.”
Olivier Guilluy
Head of Asia Pacific, Onduline Group

On the study Frederic’s team delivered, in episode 2 of On Plan, On Target. A client speaking about his consulting work, not an event organiser. Organiser testimonials are being collected.

Watch the moment (35:13)
He has stood in front of their audiences
ESCP Business SchoolMarcus EvansSupply Chain MagazineGulf 4PSaudi MadeSIMECIndustrial Transformation Saudi Arabia
He hosts the room too

On Plan,
On Target

His own executive podcast. Four long-form conversations with operators who run real businesses, recorded in full and published unedited. This is what his moderation sounds like before you book him for yours.

The brutal truth about leadership 34 min

With Emmanuelle Quentin

The brutal truth about leadership

VP Urology, Critical Care & Surgery, BD

Why she stopped trying to be a superwoman, how she doubled internal promotions, and the first thing she does when she takes over a team.

20 August 2024 Watch the episode
Never kill the messenger 41 min

With Olivier Guilluy

Never kill the messenger

Head of Asia Pacific, Onduline Group

Thirty-six years of industry in Asia: hearing bad news early, the two hires he regrets, and why the plant stayed in Malaysia.

21 May 2024 Watch the episode
Sustainability is everyone's responsibility 55 min

With Hélène Houdreaux & Brett Marshall

Sustainability is everyone's responsibility

Schneider Electric & Zuellig Pharma

Two operators, no sustainability officers. 300,000 styrofoam boxes removed, 94% of a thousand suppliers reporting carbon, and what did not work.

20 April 2024 Watch the episode
The biggest fear of C-suite leaders 34 min

With Georgina Halabi

The biggest fear of C-suite leaders

Performance and well-being coach

The self-doubt nobody admits to in the boardroom, and the ten-second habits that break the loop.

28 February 2025 Watch the episode
Act four

What he will
actually say

Six positions he is prepared to defend in front of a room that may disagree. Each is reframed around your theme and your audience, but the argument underneath does not change.

01

“Localisation is decided at the supplier, not in the business case.”

The room prefers to debate investment and policy. He will point at the local supplier who cannot yet hold tolerance or pass the audit, and argue that everything else is downstream of that.

02

“Most transformation programmes stall at month fourteen.”

Not at launch, when everyone is watching. At month fourteen, when the consultants have gone and the plant reverts to its old habits. He will say why, and what the sponsor should have done in month two.

03

“Planning is not the problem. Companies finish the plan and nothing changes.”

The argument behind his books. He is willing to say on stage that the planning ritual most organisations defend is theatre, and to describe what replaces it.

04

“Technology pays back in operations, and there are expensive places where it does not.”

He has installed the systems and seen which ones earned their cost. Useful on any digital panel drifting toward the brochure.

05

“Resilience and sustainability are the same decision, taken twice.”

From hosting operators at Schneider Electric and Zuellig Pharma: the shift that cuts carbon is usually the shift that removes risk. He will take the contrarian seat on greenwashing.

06

“A turnaround is a people problem wearing a P&L costume.”

Twenty-five years of multi-site, multi-cultural recovery work. He will tell the room the part most speakers leave out, which is who has to be moved.

Formats

Panel discussion

His default. Specific, evidence-led, willing to take the contrarian seat. 30 to 60 min.

Moderation

Briefs every speaker individually beforehand and keeps the room on the hard questions.

Executive forum

Closed-door sessions with boards and leadership teams.

Keynote

20 to 40 min, built around one framework the audience can apply on Monday.

How booking works

Three steps,
no guesswork

01

You send the brief

Event, date, city, audience and the question you want the panel to answer. Two minutes with the form below.

02

A 15-minute call

To test the fit. If he is not the right person for that room, you will be told so, and pointed to someone who is.

03

A written proposal

Format, preparation, briefing calls and logistics, confirmed in writing before anything is committed.

Every enquiry receives a personal reply within two working days.

Speaker kit

Eleven pages to take to your programme committee: bio, positions, session ideas, the full record, books, approved photos and how booking works.

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Before you ask

Practical questions

Where does he speak?

He is based in Riyadh. His core circuit is Saudi Arabia and the GCC, and he takes engagements in Europe, Asia and the Americas, the regions he has operated in.

In which languages?

English and French, on stage and in moderation.

Which formats?

Panel discussion (30 to 60 min), moderation, closed-door executive forum, and keynote (20 to 40 min, built around one framework the audience can apply).

Does he moderate as well as speak?

Yes. He briefs each speaker individually beforehand and keeps the room on the hard questions. The podcast episodes above show how he runs a conversation.

Virtual sessions?

Possible for keynotes and executive forums. In person is strongly preferred for panels and moderation, where the room is the point.

What does it cost?

It depends on format, preparation and travel. You receive a written proposal after the 15-minute call, before anything is committed.

Enquiries

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