Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia, the official spectator sports entity, has promoted Abdulwahab Eshgi to Chief of People & Support Services Officer, effective February 2025.  

Sharing the news with his LinkedIn community, Abdulwahab posted, “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief of People & Support Services Officer at Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia (JCSA)!” Key C-suite leaders including Ghassan Nasser, Hassan AL-Tahat, Mohamed Alrumaihi, Khaled Fawaz Al-Zou'bi, Mansour Alghamdi, Ahmed Salama, and Nezzar Raboey extended their wishes to him. 

Abdulwahab has been serving JCSA as the Human Resources Director since 2022, overseeing HR policies and procedures, performance management, employee relations, benefits, employment laws and regulations, HR budgets and expenses, and other areas of HR and people strategy. With over 12 years of HR experience, he has fostered a workplace culture of care, well-being, and a people-first approach—a practice he will continue in his new role.

Before joining JCSA, Abdulwahab worked with transportation and logistics leader Kuehne+Nagel in key roles, overseeing the entire recruitment cycle through onboarding, collaborating with teams in Germany and South Africa to support, develop, and execute HR strategy and recruitment roadmaps, as well as training and development strategies. Prior to that, he worked with Chalhoub Group, the General Authority of Civil Aviation, SAJA Pharmaceuticals, and Horizon Electronic Services—setting the stage for his HR career.

On the academic front, Abdulwahab holds an MBA in HR from Clayton State University, a BBA degree, and a BA in Political Science from Cape Breton University. He is also a certified CIPD professional and holds key certifications in HR from SHRM, as well as a Six Sigma certification from Oxford Academy for Training and Consulting.  

Abdulwahab brings strong expertise in leadership, management, strategic HR planning, HR policies, HCM, HR transformation, cost-reduction practices, team management, talent development, and talent attraction, hiring, and retention strategies.

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During his tenure with GACA, Abdulwahab was selected among the top 30 candidates to join the “Future Leaders Program” from a pool of 9,000 applicants. He later leveraged these skills to develop and execute the "Future Leaders Program," including psychometric testing and a customised 12-month plan for selected candidates – an initiative that created a robust talent pipeline for Logistics & Supply Chain majors—a niche specialisation in Saudi Arabia. At Chalhoub, he played a key role in the effective implementation of SAP’s HR technology and led recruitment audits and investigations to enhance talent onboarding.