Video: Khaled Soliman, Jashanmal CEO, leads retail major’s digital transformation in UAE

Video: Khaled Soliman, Jashanmal CEO, leads retail major’s digital transformation in UAE

Dubai: With over 40 years' experience across varied industries of construction, manufacturing, hospitality and retail, Khaled Soliman is currently leading the Jashanmal Group as the Group CEO. He has been in the top management positions at various organisations for past 20 years. The 102-year old conglomerate, which started off from a single store in Basra, Iraq, in 1919, has seamlessly adapted to the changing retail landscape. Its fortunes have grown as the Arabian Gulf changed from being a faceless desert to one of the most dynamic global hubs for commerce. Soliman has been instrumental in defining and implementing the e-commerce and omni channel strategy of the group and it is under his leadership that the group successfully launched its e-commerce activities at the beginning of the last year and in this short span has made its mark in the region. Within a year of its launch, e-commerce has contributed more than 4 per cent of the group's total turnover. "The pandemic did not bring about digitalisation. It was already there and was progressing every day. It was accelerated due to the safety concerns of the consumers,“ Soliman told Gulf News in an exclusive interview. Soliman is a civil engineer with