Power 25 2021: Deepak Khushalani, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Premier Logistics, Ranks 18

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Leveraging his degree in Business Management with specialisation in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Indiana University, Bloomington, US, Khushalani accumulated over 15 years of global experience in spearheading businesses of FMCG distribution in Africa and real estate development in UAE & India managing multimillion-dollar P&L’s, before venturing into logistics in UAE.

An avid believer of innovation and digital disruption, he founded Premier Logistics in 2016 to focus primarily on digitisation of the age-old industry of logistics within the Middle East. Under his leadership, Premier Logistics has grown from a three-member team to a 55-member team of logisticians.

With ambitious expansion plans in the next three years, Deepak’s focus now is to create an asset-light logistics company with his emphasis on scaling-up the organisation by creating intrapreneurs and expanding operations to three new countries through strategic partnerships and collaborations.