Adib Alfadel

Founding Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

With a Bachelor of Commerce from Damascus University, Adib Alfadel started his career in 1962 as an accountant for Alfijeh Water Resource Company. Then he started in the middle management of the Popular Credit Bank to eventually become the head of the treasury department. Driven by his ambition, it was in 1966 that he decided to start up his own business. In the late ‘70s, he co-founded and acted as the Executive Vice President of H.U. Morsch GmbH (Oil trading Company). He co-founded and occupied for a decade (1982-1992) the position of Vice President for marketing and business development of the ‘Groupement Arabe Français pour la Construction dans le Monde Arabo (GAFCA).

Awarded in 2005 ‘Honorary President of the Syrian Environment & the Sustainable Development Association’, he received, on the 7th of March 2006, the decoration of “Cavaliere” of the “Ordine al Merito della Republica Italiana”in recognition of his efforts to strengthen the commercial bonds between Italy and Syria.

Adib Alfadel is a founding board member of the “Club Des Entrepreneurs Franco-Syriens”, the founder of the UNDP Global Compact Network Council in Syria

Imad Alfadel

Vice Chairman & Managing Director

Holder of a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus in Investments and Economics from Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA , Imad Alfadel has a Masters in International Business from Webster University, Geneva, CH. He joined Alfadel Group in 2002, prior to that he was member of the Active Advisory Group of Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse, Geneva. The advisory group’s main focus was to manage the bank’s sophisticated ultra high networth client portfolios.

As representative of Alfadel Group, Imad Alfadel holds several board positions, among which board member of Banque Bemo Saudi Fransi, member of the Board of Solidarity Alliance Insurance Company, and vice chairman of Arab Finance Corporation.