User:Shamsharif/"Tarek Othman"

Tarek Othman or طارق عثمان was born in Damascus, Syria on August, 26th 1976. His roots goes back to Balad Al Sheikh, a small town near Haifa in Palestine, His father Hassan Othman migrated from Palestine to Syria in 1948 as a refuge after the occupation of his own town by the Israelis.

Tarek lived his childhood in the city of Homs in the middle of Syria till he was 18 when he moved back to Damascus to go to the Faculty of Pharmacy at Damascus University which he graduated from in 1999.

In the same year, Tarek travelled to Bangalore, India to sign a contract with The Himalaya Drug Company to distribute and market their products in the Syrian market. In 2002, he established the OE - Marketing Office which is specialized in marketing and promoting international pharmaceutical companies in the Syrian market.

In August 6th, 2004 he married from Fatima Alkassir who origin from an American mother Melissa and a Syrian father Mahmoud. Together they moved to Fatima's home town Denver in the state of Colorado in March, 2006. In March of 2007, Tarek joined CVS pharmacy as a Pharmacy Grad. Intern and then as a Staff Pharmacist in 2008. In the same year Tarek joined the Belk School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a concentration in Marketing.