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Executive Management
Mr. Hamed Rahim Wardak
Founder and CEO
Hamed Wardak, 34, is an Afghan-American and founder and CEO of NCL Holdings, LLC, a global professional services company that has been instrumental in projects generating local employment in Afghanistan. He is also a philanthropist and advocate for the future of Afghanistan.
Driven by is the desire to give back to the Afghan community and to share the results of people living their dreams, Mr. Wardak funded the National Gallery of Arts Exhibit, "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures for the National Museum, Kabul" which has traveled to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is also a major donor of the U.S. Association for the U.N. Refugee Agency to help address the needs of the most vulnerable populations in Afghanistan, where over 200,000 people are displaced.
He is one of six founders of the Campaign for a US-Afghanistan Partnership (CUSAP), a nonprofit organization of American and Afghan citizens, guided by a vision for achieving sustainable security and prosperity in Afghanistan. He is also a founder of Fedayeen-e-Sol, a broad-based and multiethnic civil society movement aiming for national and governmental reform in Afghanistan through non-violent means, and the founding vice-president of the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce. His father is Abdul Rahim Wardak, the Defense Minister of Afghanistan.
Background
- Mr. Wardak was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up in Pakistan and the United States. He speaks Dari and Pashto and lives between Washington, DC and Kabul.
- From 2004-2005, Mr. Wardak was a Managing Director for International Operations with Technologists, Inc., an US Government contractor that became active in Afghanistan under his leadership. In that role he generated $44 million in design-build contracts in Afghanistan through his business development efforts with USAID and the Department of Defense, exponentially increasing the company's annual revenue of $1 million.
- In 2002-2003, he was the Afghan Finance Minister's Private Envoy to the United States.
- Early in his career, Mr. Wardak worked in mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch in New York and Palo Alto, California. His assignments ranged in value from $200 million to $1 billion, and included Avaya's acquisition of VPNET and Veeco Instruments' acquisition of Applied Epi.
Awards
- Valedictorian of Georgetown University in 1997, where he earned a BA in Government and Political Theory.
- Elected an American Rhodes Scholar and read for the M. Phil, and M. Litt in Politics at the University of Oxford.
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