Wajahat Haider
Director
American University in Dubai. His initial venture was in the steel structure business, where he successfully expanded operations to South Africa. Haider is also a board member of SH Tech in South Africa, which operates a state-of-the-art shredding plant that processes steel for both local and export markets.
Subsequently, Mr. Haider joined General Petroleum FZE, marking the start of his second career in Strategic Planning and Business Development. He has honed significant expertise in areas such as business development of the entire range of products for GP domestically and internationally. Through his network and relationship with his multilingual skills, his extensive connections span the UAE and various international markets. Haider further advanced his education by completing a Master’s degree in Service Management and Design from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
The board appointed him as the CEO for Pakistan’s lubricant business, where he achieved notable growth, making the company a prominent player in the Pakistani market. Through his and his team’s hard work they established great trust with the distributors and successfully developed the GP brand. General Petroleum products are being blended in Shell’s state of the art blending facility, this gave a lot of confidence to the market that the product which General Petroleum is selling adheres to international standards. Haider has been entrusted with the task of developing Global Business Operations. He has been asked to actively pursue the North American market and has been assigned to establish a business office and devise the strategic plan for entering the North American market and gaining market share.