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Ahmed Nashid

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, ADK Group of Companies.

Ahmed Nashid, the founder and Chairman of ADK Group of Companies, is a visionary entrepreneur who pioneered the provision of private healthcare in the Maldives. In partnership with his brother-in-law, late Mr. Hassan Ibrahim, he ventured into the business career in 1986 with the opening of ADK Mediclinic with just one doctor. By 1992, the clinic progressed to become ADK Medical Center, the first 24 hour private medical center in the country with laboratory and short stay admission services.

Mr Nashid’s passion and dedication to improve health services in Maldives, led him to take a bold step to bid for, and win tender for the development of the then government hospital for private operation. With his experience, knowledge and vision, Mr Nashid transformed ADK Hospital to the premier private healthcare facility in the country. Today, the hospital is fully equipped with modern sophisticated technology providing the largest range of tertiary level medical care in the country. In addition, the facility continues to make its mark by making new benchmarks in providing care, while also attracting the best professional teams in the industry. In recognition and appreciation of these achievements, Ahmed Nashid was awarded the ’National Encouragement Award’ by the  Government in 1992.

Today, the ADK Group has diversified into a variety of thriving businesses that include healthcare, pharmaceutical trade, real estate and hotel development, general trading, logistics and the tourism industry. Mr Nashid, with his extensive erudition of the business sector, became on of the founders of Maldives National Chamber of Commerce and also served as the president of the Chamber from [date].

Ahmed Nashid is also a committed political reformist, who played a key role in the drafting of the first democratic Constitution of Maldives promulgated in 2008, serving as a member of the then Constitutional Assembly. He also served as independent Member of Parliament for the Kudahuvadhoo Constituency from 2005 to 2009. Mr Nashid also played a pivotal role in the formation of Jumhooree Party (JP) in 2008, of which he served as the Deputy President until he resigned from the Party in 2012. He later joined the Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) and was elected to the Parliament, representing the constituency of Komandoo for the term 2014 to 2019.

Mr Nashid has been happily married to Ms Maana Rafiu for more than three decades and is blessed with two beautiful daughters, Manaal and Nawaila.