Tarek Sultan is the Vice Chairman of Agility, a global leader in supply chain services, infrastructure, and innovation, with 54,000+employees and a footprint in six continents. Tarek assumed leadership of the company in 1997 and spearheaded the company’s worldwide growth through a series of acquisitions.
Sultan serves as a member of numerous international, governmental, and commercial advisory bodies and boards. They include the board of directors of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce, the board of Directors of DSV A/S, the world’s third-largest freight forwarder, and the World Trade Organization’s Business Advisory Group, created in 2023 to share the views of businesses on trade and regulation.
As a member of the World Economic Forum, Tarek sits on the WEF’s International Business Council, which brings together 120 leaders to represent global business from all industries. He also is a member of the WEF’s Stewardship Board for Shaping the Future of Mobility, and a Governor of the WEF Supply Chain and Transport Industries community.
Sultan has previously served as advisor to the Singapore Economic Development Board and as a member of the International Advisory Council of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He served on the Board of Trustees for Kuwait’s Silk City and the Boubyan Island Development Project of Kuwait, as well as on the boards of Gulf Bank and Burgan Bank.
Before taking on his leadership role at Agility, Tarek was the managing director of New York Associates, a regional investment banking services provider and an associate with Southport Partners, a U.S.-based corporate finance advisory firm specializing in the technology sector.
Tarek holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Economics from Williams College.