Executive Director & Founder Mar 2025 – Present
Farouk Consulting Services | Woodbridge, VA
Deliberately founded to channel 20+ years of federal program, supply chain, and global health expertise into an independent executive advisory practice — building a client base, service model, and operating structure from the ground up.
• Built Farouk Consulting Services from the ground up, establishing service lines, securing anchor clients, and delivering executive advisory work in strategy, operations, proposal management, and business development across healthcare and biopharma within the first year of operation.
• Secured over €5M in new GIZ donor funding for Client A within a compressed submission window: leading end-to-end proposal development for a pharmaceutical and vaccine cooperative agreement in Ghana from scope design through final submission.
• Lead stakeholder mapping, new market feasibility studies, and financial gap analysis tied to clients’ strategic roadmaps, enabling them to reach new markets and revenue growth by 15%.
• Cultivated trusted advisor relationships with C-suite clients by anchoring every engagement in candid, unhurried dialogue, earning repeat mandates and referrals in a market where most consulting relationships stay transactional.

Senior Manager (Director), Healthcare Supply Chain Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
Credence LLC / USAID | Washington, DC
• Owned end-to-end program lifecycle management for five portfolios in pharmaceutical procurement, diagnostic equipment, and technology solutions totaling $500M in value, maintaining uninterrupted delivery of critical medical products across multiple countries with zero shipment delays under active USAID cooperative agreements.
• Designed and enforced standardized supply chain network optimization policies across five regional locations, strengthening operational consistency and ensuring full FAR compliance.
• Stabilized a cross-functional team navigating significant organizational transition by establishing clear roles, open communication channels, and consistent expectations, restoring team confidence and maintaining full program continuity within the first 60 days.

Program Director, Global Public Health Nov 2021 – Feb 2024
Amentum Government Services | Arlington, VA
• Spearheaded the $5B federal IDIQ global supply chain proposal, the largest competitive pursuit in the organization’s global health portfolio, designing the technical win strategy, directing color team reviews, and closing consortium teaming agreements on time for a hard government submission deadline.
• Safeguarded $100M+ in medical product deliveries across multi-country health systems strengthening initiatives with zero program disruption, navigating simultaneous pandemic lockdowns and donor funding freezes through rapid risk mitigation and governance frameworks.
• Forged strategic global joint venture partnerships and built a forward pipeline that unlocked $50M+ in new opportunities within a two-year growth window, expanding the organization’s multilateral influence and establishing it as a trusted prime contractor across international health markets.
• Built and drove multi-year strategic roadmaps and financial pipelines in full FAR compliance, enabling expanded program funding and consistently meeting short- and medium-term organizational growth targets.

Program Director, Global Health Laboratory May 2016 – Oct 2021
United States Pharmacopeia (USP) | Rockville, MD
Progressed through four roles over 5.5 years: Laboratory Manager → Principal Technical Account Manager → Director, Africa & Middle East Operations → Program Director, Global Health Laboratory.
• Owned P&L and full portfolio management for a $30–50M annual budget across USAID-funded cooperative agreements in 10+ LMICs, consistently delivering 100% on-scope, on-budget results and contributing directly to successful program re-awards.
• Architected and drove a full modernization roadmap for 14 regional labs across 10 countries over a 36-month implementation cycle, achieving ISO/IEC 17025, 15189, and 13485 accreditations and improving quality management systems compliance, turnaround times, and testing accuracy.
• Built, mentored, and retained high-performing cross-cultural teams of up to 25 senior professionals across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, creating succession pipelines that increased staff retention by 35% and developed in-country leaders capable of sustaining programs independently.
• Governed sub-awards, subcontractors, and consultant relationships in full FAR compliance; designed and delivered capacity-building programs that trained 200+ laboratory and supply chain professionals, institutionalizing in-country sustainability across multiple regions.

Senior Advisor, Laboratory Supply Chain Jul 2012 – Apr 2016
John Snow Inc. (JSI) / Supply Chain Management Project | Arlington, VA
• Secured and negotiated $100M in service-level contracts with international diagnostics manufacturers, leveraging volume-based teaming agreements and competitive intelligence to achieve lower cost-per-test for molecular diagnostics across 25 PEPFAR-supported countries.
• Designed and implemented national laboratory logistics systems for multiple country governments within 12–18-month country rollout timelines, achieving 100% stock availability and reducing waste by 25% year-over-year through demand forecasting and digital supply chain optimization.
• Led 50+ forecasting, quantification, and supply planning workshops across Africa and Asia over a four-year period, training 500+ healthcare professionals through structured capacity-building programs that sustained institutional knowledge and measurably improved patient outcomes.
• Invested deliberately in local talent across every country engagement, coaching government counterparts and in-country staff to own logistics systems independently, reducing reliance on external advisors and building sustainable human capacity that outlasted the program funding cycle.

EARLIER CAREER
Senior Laboratory Logistics Advisor | JSI R&T Institute / PEPFAR-USAID, Zambia 2007–2012
Manager, National Quality Assurance Laboratory | MSH / MOHSW, Namibia 2005–2007
Regulatory Officer, Laboratory Services | Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana 2000–2005

Education

PhD, Public Health — Walden University | MN, USA

MBA, Operations Management — MANCOSA | Durban, South Africa

MSc, Pharmaceutical Quality Control Systems — Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST) | Kumasi, Ghana

BS, Chemistry & Laboratory Sciences — Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST)