Fareed Ghulam Bader

Chairman / GULF MEMBRANE & COATING INDUSTRIES W.L.L.

Business Sector: Manufacturing Construction Agriculture Fisheries

Myers-Briggs Personality Type: Entrepreneur - ESTP-A / ESTP-T

About me

Fareed Bader is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. Fareed is a prominent Bahrain-based businessman with 38 years of experience in different sectors and industries. He is Chairman & Managing Director of the Bader Group of Companies and serves as Chairman of several other firms, including Angivest Ventures WLL, Gulf Membrane and Coating Industries, Green Tech Middle East, and Green Product Industry. Fareed is chairman of the industrial committee at the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Board Member of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) Bahrain and Bahrain Contracting Society. He also served as a past president and Board Member of the Rotary Club of Manama, and past president of Toastmasters FTC. He is a founding member of French Chamber of Commerce and is a member of several business fraternities including Bahrain Engineering Society, and American Chamber of Commerce in Bahrain. Fareed holds a BSC in Civil Engineering and Business Management from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Fareed Bader loves reading, classical music, public speaking, and mentoring youth to unleash their potential.

Learning Style

• Auditory
• Visual

Areas of Expertise

• I have established a new company and raised sales and profits to break-even
• I have established and sold a company for more than US$100,000
• I have established new production units / sales and distribution outlets / logistics (e.g. warehou
• I have exported our company’s products or services
• I have managed advertising and promotional budgets over US$30,000 a year
• I have managed social and community projects with budgets exceeding US$100,000 a year
• I have opened new sales channels for our products or services
• I have raised external finance for a business or a project
• I have raised external finance for a business or a project
• I have recruited and managed over 5 employees for at least three years
• I have sourced new suppliers and procured goods or services for the company