Fahad Siddiqui
Chief Executive Officer at AMAQ [Interiors |Fit-Out |Design], Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Fahad Siddiqui, a graduate from the University of Windsor in Ontario Canada, has been at helm of affairs at AMAQ [Design & Build] for over 11 years in KSA and is taking his organization on an upward year-on-year growth curve as well as expanding regionally – with a plan. Under Fahad's leadership, AMAQ has surfaced as one of the finest Design & Build destinations in the GCC region and has been crowned with numerous industry awards, time and time again, for providing not only creative constructible Design solutions to it's elite clientele, but also building them in record times. Last year, Fahad announced the Company's expansion into the UAE by delivering the first project in Dubai and launching it's own residential development-wing. As AMAQ expands regionally, Fahad's entrepreneurial skills are being put to test, yet once again where he ventures to capitalize AMAQ's brand image and claim it's market share in the UAE. Fahad has also made sustainability a centerpiece of everything that we do at AMAQ – out of the 1108 registered sustainable LEED projects in KSA, 5 have been delivered by AMAQ – achieving LEED gold certifications on 4 of them whereas achieving LEED-PLATINUM on the 5th. Having delivered projects well over half a billion Saudi Riyals in his personal portfolio, Fahad has recorded a 12% average year-on-year growth for AMAQ as it's CEO over the last 6 years. Fahad has transformed AMAQ from being "just another design office that can build" into a brand name, which stands for quality, trust and timeliness from the moment you call them till they handover you the keys. AMAQ has now launched it's very own first ever development project under the banner of "AMAQ Properties" – this time in the UAE. In Fahad's personal portfolio he has delivered very complex projects for Global clients like HSBC, CBRE, IKEA, US-State Department, Bank of America, Ericsson, APEX FundRock, Wendy's, InterContinental Hotel Group, GlaxoSmithKline GSK, BMC, Geidea, EuroHealth, Dubizzle/Bayut, InvestCorp, Riyad Bank, Rajhi Bank, Emirates NBD, Gulf Bank, SACO, MBC-Alarabia, LandMark Group, Arab National Bank, Aster, OTHAIM, Majid Al Futtaim Enova, PIF Sensetime, Al Bawani, Saudi Fransi Bank and many more.