CEO Today - Middle East Awards 2024

President and CEO of KEO Sultan Donna www.keoic.com CEO Today Middle East Awards 2024 - KUWAIT - - 51 - About KEO KEO is one of the largest globally ranked consultancies specializing in the delivery of planning, architecture, engineering, sustainability & project and construction management services. KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities. As a regional leader and one of the largest Middle Eastern consultancy firms, KEO pledges to lead by example, maintaining and reinforcing a world class ethical practice and an unwavering culture of excellence. Our people are guided by a profound sense of purpose, with an abiding responsibility to those who experience our work. Our ambition is to plan, create, engineer and manage delivery of the environments essential to the success of clients and communities. And with these gifts we reward users and owners with prosperity, comfort, community, health, safety and memories. An interdisciplinary AEP firm, we offer an end-to-end planning & development solution through allied specialist firms: InSite, for inspired planning, urban design and landscape architecture, and; C-Quest, the quantity surveying experts. About Donna Donna Sultan has been CEO of KEO since 1991 and became President and CEO in 2016. Educated in the US and raised in Europe and the US, her background includes strategic planning and management consulting. She has over 40 years’ professional experience in the Middle East and is ranked as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the Arab World, one of the 12 most influential businesswomen in the Gulf. Donna has skillfully positioned the firm as a globally recognized multidiscipline practice working on some of the region’s largest and most prestigious construction projects and serving a wide array of public and private sector clients spanning the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. She has fostered and developed KEO’s renowned blend of highly skilled project and construction management competencies, design innovation, engineering know-how, sustainability principles, local knowledge and global insights, which has in turn, earned the company the highest level of client confidence and industry respect. She personally oversaw the development of the allied practices, as subsidiaries bringing in new revenue streams from brands such as InSite, C-Quest, F&M+. Donna has devoted her career to lead KEO into becoming one of the leading multi-disciplinary and award-winning consultancies in the GCC and worldwide.

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