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Ahmed Gashlan is the CEO of Veolia Arabia, overseeing the territories of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain for water, waste and energy management.
He is an expert in the fields of water and wastewater, oil and gas, construction and real estate investment, with over 34 years of experience in the Kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council region, including identifying and sourcing opportunities, business structuring, modeling and target realization.
As the chief executive of Veolia Arabia, Gashlan leads his teams in line with the company’s mission of being the benchmark for ecological transformation.
Veolia has a longstanding presence in the Kingdom; it has served municipal and industrial clients in the region for over 34 years.
Before joining Veolia Arabia in 2022, Gashlan managed a local Saudi company in the water industry for 10 years and was accountable for performance turnaround, repositioning and restructuring the business into multi-business units or specialized companies.
Prior to that, he was deputy general manager of Tihama Holding Co. and was responsible for restructuring the organization into a holding company.
Gashlan holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the School of Environmental Design, College of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University and a diploma in converting strategy into action from Stanford University.