Mohamed Farouk Abdelkhalek Ph.D

Mohamed Farouk Abdelkhalek Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. Mohamed Abdelkhalek serves as Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Executive Director at ADES International Holding. He serves as Non Executive Partner at Compass Capital. He serves as Board Member at Rameda Pharmaceuticals. He has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2012, during which time he has led the company's expansion into new markets and services as ADES transforms into a leading global rig operator. Dr. Farouk joined the Group from Invensys Operations Management (IOM), an FTSE 100 company, where he was most recently senior vice president for global delivery and operations based in Texas. He served earlier with Invensys as Director of Invensys Global Engineering Excellence Centres in Egypt, India, China and Argentina, prior to which he was the General Manager of Invensys Engineering and Services in Egypt. He began his career in 1991 as a Project Engineer at ConiSys Egypt, a provider of control and instrumentation systems technology. Dr. Farouk holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering and control from Case Western Reserve University of Ohio, USA. He was subsequently an associate professor of electrical engineering at Cairo University. His past directorships include service to the board of Schneider Electric for Process Systems; he is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of Invensys Engineering and Services Egypt.