Suresh Vaidhyanathan

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.