Sulaiman Abdul Kareem Mohammad Al-Fahim (Arabic: سليمان عبدالكريم محمد الفهيم ) (born 1977 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates) is the ex-CEO of the Abu Dhabi based Hydra Properties real estate development company, and president of the Arab Union for Real Estate Development. Al-Fahim is a 10% shareholder and non-executive chairman of English football club Portsmouth having sold a 90% share to Ali Al-Faraj in October 2009, after only 40 days as the fu...
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Sulaiman Abdul Kareem Mohammad Al-Fahim (Arabic: سليمان عبدالكريم محمد الفهيم ) (born 1977 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates) is the ex-CEO of the Abu Dhabi based Hydra Properties real estate development company, and president of the Arab Union for Real Estate Development. Al-Fahim is a 10% shareholder and non-executive chairman of English football club Portsmouth having sold a 90% share to Ali Al-Faraj in October 2009, after only 40 days as the full owner. In March 2009, Al-Fahim was listed fourth in Arabian Business magazine's list of "The World's most influential Arabs".
Al-Fahim was born in Dubai in 1977. From the age of eleven he worked in his father's Orient Pharmacy after school. At the age eighteen he founded the "Sulaiman Al Fahim Group" which financed education and sports in the UAE. In 1998, when he was 21, his parents and younger brother were killed in a road traffic accident near Dubai Airport. Following this loss he moved to the United States. There Al-Fahim received his...
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