Aghareed Ehsan Abdul-Jawad has recently become the first woman to be elected to the senior management team of the Eastern Province’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Abdul-Jawad, who is fluent in both English and French, is an analytical professional with extensive exposure across multiple corporate sectors in finance. She is also proficient at logistics, shipping and investments. She has gained significant knowledge in designing short and long-term investment strategies and driving critical business decisions to meet desired objectives.
She is the daughter of the chairman of board at Abduljawad Holding Co., the investment arm of Globe Group, one of the region’s top logistics and transportation companies, founded in 1976 by Abdul-Jawad’s late grandfather.
She has been chair of the board of directors at Tamkean Arabia, a real estate development company, since September 2020, while also working as the finance director at Abduljawad Holding Co, a role she has held since 2015. In 2016, she became the company’s board director.
In 2018, she founded Valet-it, a valet parking service company. Since 2020, she has been the finance and budgeting director at Global Marine Services, where she is a board member. She also worked as the supply chain director for five years from 2015.
For over a year beginning in August 2014, she worked as a credit-risk analyst at Banque Saudi Fransi. Before that, she attended a summer intern program at KPMG.
Abdul-Jawad graduated from Dhahran Ahliyya Schools in 2010 before she joined the Alkhobar-based Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in finance in 2014.
She received a French language diploma in 2018. Currently, she is a level-3 Chartered Financial Analyst candidate and is expected to achieve certification this year.
