Hundlur Group CEO & Chairman Biography
Talal is a businessman who follows in the footsteps of a family widely known for their regional business success, spanning several centuries. The Fakhro family has considerable business involvement in Bahrain where Talal was born and raised. Along with this family history in commerce, the Fakhros have also long been heavily involved in the arts, academia, cultural and economic development for many decades, about which much has been written. The wider Fakhro family interests include all the senior partnerships of KPMG Bahrain and longstanding distribution and franchises with: Avaya, Budget, Dunlop, LG, Mobil, McDonalds and Sony among many others. Talal pursued his Business Administration studies at the highly respected and renowned New York Institute of Technology following his education at the prestigious BBS and Al Hikma Institutes in Bahrain. He subsequently held several Directorships of luxury and lifestyle companies, building towards the setting up of his own company in October 2011, when the Hundlur Group was founded. Having established his early vision for Hundlur, Talal embarked upon building a group based around: clothing, consulting, lifestyle-membership, property, publishing, retail, wholesale and one of his great passions – watches. Since 2011, the group has indeed added fast growing wholesale and retail arms and now also boasts its own business consultancy and property portfolios along with the other sectors mentioned. Hundlur now even has its own dedicated and full in-house product design and development team, which Talal still heads personally. Talal is a family man, a great lover of the outdoors and follows a particular desire to travel and subsume as many cultural influences as he can. This, in order to make his flagship watch company - Nuun Official - along with all of the other Hundlur Group elements, uniquely relevant to all global markets. Talal Y.M. Fakhroo – Group CEO & Chairman Of The Board |