Hamed Wardak, an Afghan-American, is 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.  Hamed is also President and CEO of NCL Holdings, LLC, a global professional services company that has been instrumental in projects generating local employment in Afghanistan. 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.