Ahmed Khalfan, MBA '05



Khalifa Deputy Manager
Kuwait Finance House

My life changed drastically after completing my MBA at Gonzaga, I got engaged to the love of my life two months after returning back home. I began building our home while struggling to meet the difficult objectives set for my new job then as Head of Marketing at the local telecommunications service provider. After a year, I was offered a job at the second largest Islamic bank in the world. The job has been very demanding and still is. 

A few months after moving into our new home, we were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, Zain, six months.  Before having Zain we did a lot of traveling. We visited Rome, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and Kuala Lumpur. My best trip was visiting the Colosseum in Rome. That's when I realized I have a soft spot for history. I really believe that a person can learn more from history than anything else.

My career during the past five years witnessed a major transformation from officer, to supervisor, to assistant manager and now deputy manager. The responsibilities of course kept increasing and become more complex in nature. But I still believe that I have a ways to go before sticking to a specific position for a longer period. My biggest fear is to be forgotten. This is my motivator, my tool to strive for a better role in my career and in my personal life. 

I owe most of my development in these few short years first and foremost to God and then to my wonderful family and finally to the experience I received during my MBA at Gonzaga. I will always feel in debt and would love to continue being in touch with the Alumni and especially '05 graduates. God bless you all and I will always have Gonzaga in my heart.