Adnan specializes in connecting leadership and strategy process to board progression and effectiveness as a trusted advisor to Owners, Chairmen, Board members and CEOs, including public sector leaders. He most enjoys working with leaders seeking to generate transformation and shifts in their culture and their leadership capabilities and brings a systemic perspective, a commitment to people / relationships and a focus on outcomes and impact.
Adnan has worked both as a professor of Finance and Dean of the Faculty of Economics & Administration at King Abdulaziz University; and as a trusted advisor (and later as CEO) to SEDCO Holding, a leading private wealth management company).
Dr Adnan Soufi is a currently Founder & Managing Partner at Development Acceleration & Sustainability Partners (DAS Partners), an expert-based advisory firm specialized in governance progression, change management, capacity building for transformation programs and advancing institutional investment processes by relying on independent and evidence-based analysis in collaboration with Renewal Associates; as well as being a board member at Savola, NCB Capital, Panda Retail, Wadi Jeddah, Vice- Chairman Sisco and Chairman of Advisory Committee to Board of the General Authority for Endowments. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Leadership, Strategy and Governance at the King Abdulaziz University.
His previous board positions include Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Capital Market Authority (CMA), and later became chairman of its Advisory Committee; Bupa Arabia; Arabian Cement Company; AWJ Holding, Chairman of the Board at Ahyaa Centers Endowment-Jeddah and a Member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Islamic Economics; board member of the Saudi Association of Internal Auditors and a Founding member of the Saudi Association of Individual Investors.