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Chairman · Investor · Mentor

Khalid Al Rashid

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Al Rashid Holding · Doha, Qatar

Twenty-five years building Qatari businesses in energy, logistics and real estate — and a conviction that leadership is a duty of service to the people who do the work.

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Lusail · Doha · Riyadh · Muscat
25years in the family business
2,400people across the group
3countries of operation
4board seats
140scholarship students
About

A builder, a board member, a mentor.

Khalid Al Rashid chairs Al Rashid Holding, a family group founded by his father in 1978 that today employs 2,400 people across energy services, logistics and real estate in Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Trained as a mechanical engineer at Qatar University and later in finance at London Business School, he joined the family business on the workshop floor, founded its logistics arm from a single warehouse, and led the group through its diversification and its first expansion outside Qatar.

He sits on the boards of two listed companies and a national foundation, and gives one day a week to mentoring young Qatari founders through the scholarship fund he established in 2014.

“I was taught that a company is a promise to the people who work in it. Everything else — the numbers, the strategy, the brand — is how you keep that promise.”

At a glance

Based inLusail, Doha, Qatar
IndustriesEnergy services · Logistics · Real estate
EducationB.Eng. Qatar University · Executive MBA, London Business School
LanguagesArabic, English
Board seats4
InterestsFalconry, Arabic calligraphy, long-distance running
Experience

The road so far.

  • 2021 — today

    Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

    Al Rashid Holding

    Leads the group across energy services, logistics and real estate: 2,400 people, operations in Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Led the digital transformation programme and the group's first sustainability report.

  • 2015 — 2021

    Group Chief Executive Officer

    Al Rashid Holding

    Took the group outside Qatar for the first time — Muscat in 2015, Riyadh in 2019 — and restructured the holding into three operating companies with independent boards.

  • 2009 — 2015

    Chief Executive Officer

    Al Rashid Logistics

    Founded the logistics arm from a single warehouse; by 2015 it ran the largest privately held cold-chain fleet in the country and moved the group's head office to Lusail.

  • 2004 — 2009

    General Manager

    Al Rashid Energy Services

    Doubled the service fleet, won the company's first long-term national contracts and introduced the safety programme still in use today.

  • 1999 — 2004

    Engineer, then Operations Manager

    Al Rashid Energy Services

    Joined the family business on the workshop floor after graduating; ran maintenance operations for the offshore contracts.

Chairing the board at Al Rashid Holding, Lusail
Chairing the quarterly board at the group's Lusail head office, 2024.

Board seats and public roles

Achievements

Milestones and recognition.

GROWTH

Five-fold in fifteen years

Group revenue grew five-fold between 2009 and 2024, from one operating company to three, with 61% of leadership roles held by Qatari nationals.

EXPANSION

First beyond Qatar

Opened Muscat in 2015 and Riyadh in 2019 — the group's first operations outside the country — without taking on external shareholders.

GOVERNANCE

A family charter that works

Introduced the family constitution, an independent board and a succession plan that the GCC Family Business Council now cites as a model.

GIVING BACK

140 engineers and counting

Founded a scholarship fund that has sent 140 Qatari students to engineering schools abroad; 90 have since returned to work in the country.

Awards

Vision

What I stand for.

“Numbers tell you what happened. Leadership is deciding what happens next — and standing behind it.”

Qatar first

Build companies that stay, hire and train at home, and compete abroad from a position of strength.

Decisions in the open

A decision log, a clear owner and a review date — in the boardroom and in the family.

The next generation

Every leader's last job is to prepare the ones who follow. Mentoring is not charity; it is succession.

Technology with judgement

Use every tool that gives the team back its time — and keep the final decision, and the signature, human.

Media

Speeches, interviews and press.

Keynote on the family business in 2030, Doha 2024
Keynote — “The family business in 2030”Doha, 2024
Television interview on succession planning
Television interview on successionBusiness channel, 2024

Speeches

  • 2024The family business in 2030: ownership, governance and the next generationKeynote · Doha, economic forum
  • 2023Why Qatari capital should build at home firstPanel · Lusail investment conference
  • 2022Energy services after the transitionKeynote · Gulf energy summit
  • 2021Leading through a pandemic: what the numbers told usTalk · Qatar University business school

Interviews

  • 2024Television interview on succession planning in Gulf family groupsBusiness channel, 24 minutes
  • 2023Podcast: "The day I moved the head office"Majlis Business podcast, episode 41
  • 2022Long-form interview: logistics, cold chains and food securityBusiness weekly supplement

In the press

  • Mar 2024Al Rashid Holding publishes first sustainability report; targets 30% emissions cut by 2030Business daily
  • Nov 2023Khalid Al Rashid named Business Leader of the YearNational newspaper
  • Jun 2021Al Rashid Holding opens Riyadh office, its second outside QatarRegional business news
  • Sep 2019Family groups and governance: the Al Rashid modelManagement magazine, cover story

Press enquiries, speaking invitations and the official photo set are handled by the Office of the Chairman (see Contact).

Contact

The Office of the Chairman.

For speaking invitations, board matters and press, please write to the office. Messages are read by the office manager and answered within two business days.

The office is at Al Rashid Tower in Lusail; meetings are by appointment, Sunday to Thursday.

Reach the office

Emailoffice@khalidalrashid.qa
Phone+974 4000 0000
AddressAl Rashid Tower, Lusail, Qatar
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/khalidalrashid
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