Mr. Mahmood Fouladfard

Mr. Mahmood Fouladfard is the founder of Barakat Group of Companies and has been a member of the Board since inception. He started Barakat out of a retail shop in Hamriya market in the mid-1970s and grew the business by travelling around the world in order to initiate the supply of new products to the UAE market. He personally oversaw the expansion of Barakat in the early 2000s into manufacturing and the creation of the market leading FMCG brand that exists today. Mahmood is an active investor in the region with investments across a variety of different industries