Khalil Abou Ghazaleh

Khalil Abou Ghazaleh is the Managing Director for HS Brands International in the Middle East & Africa. Prior to this role, they were with Inline Research and Consultancy as well as Restaurant Of Oriental Cuisine Co. Ltd where they served as the Operations & Support Services Manager.

Khalil has extensive experience in conducting continuous analysis of information, revenues, margins, and operations cost. Khalil has also participated in strategy formulation of the company and brand selection that better diversify their portfolio. Other notable experience includes S.O.P & Manuals formulation with continues improvement to best utilize company resources and standards, sites selection, evaluation and follow ups on selected sites arrangement and requirements, responsibility of all new outlets Opening, arranging all pre and post operations requirements, and leading store teams to achieve their sales targets, P & L, and control operational costs in order to meet the set business plan.

In their previous role as Operations & Support Services Manager, Khalil was also heading the supply chain to insure having all stores requirements JIT, HR & Marketing functions, and working closely with all departments, Finance, IT to ensure all requirement of the operations are continually fulfilled. Khalil was also responsible for organizing, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating results and providing practical, cost effective solutions as well as estimating the cost of projects and assisting in annual budget estimations.

Some of Khalil's key achievements include opening a Flagship store and three outlets for chopsticks

Khalil Abou Ghazaleh attended Beirut Arab University, where they received their BA in Finance and Custom Studies. Khalil then went on to earn their MBA in Management & Strategy from Notre Dame University - Louaize (NDU).

They are on a team with Michael Mills - VP, Sales, Greg Keeley - Director, Loss Prevention, and Pei San - Head of Operations, Europe North. Khalil Abou Ghazaleh reports to Tommy Mills, Founder & CEO.