Mega Movers and Shakers Suresh Vaidhyanathan CEO – Special Projects, Ghassan Aboud Group Suresh Vaidyanathan is CEO – Special Projects, Ghassan Aboud Group. Having worked for more than 25 years with multi-business organisations, Vaidhyanathan is among the region’s most accomplished C-suite leaders. Vaidhyanathan has extensively worked across several sectors, including food, automotive, hospitality, agri-business, logistics, retail, healthcare, aviation, technology and real estate among others. He is an alumnus of the digital business transformation programme at IMD Business School and is certified in blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan School of Management. He completed the mergers and acquisitions programme at University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has also completed programmes in governance and investing at Harvard, INSEAD and Wharton. Vaidhyanathan is also an alumnus of the Oxford’s leading sustainable corporations programme. On the governance front, Vaidhyanathan is a certified board director with IOD Hawkamah, UAE; member of the GCC Board Directors Institute, fellow member of IOD, India and was recognised as a 2012 Board Leadership Fellow NACD, US. He is a charter member of the Harvard Business Club of the GCC. You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia