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Adam Abdul Gafoor

Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor is the owner and Managing Director of Finolhu Investment Pvt. Ltd. & the owner & Chairman of Aqua Sun Investments Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor began his working career in public sector where he worked and got trained in the health sector. During his career in the public sector, Mr. Gafoor was employed in the government health sector for a period of 6 years. In the early 1970’s he worked in Public Health Department as Health Assistant and was transferred to WHO (World Health Organization) as Senior Health Coordinator. Mr. Gafoor was sent by WHO to Philippine Manila from 1972 to 1973 to study under Malaria Eradication Program and from 1974 to 1975 to Delhi / India.

In the late 1970’s, Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor changed his profession to the hospitality industry. His first job within the industry was as the Purchasing Assistant to Club Med / Farukolhufushi Resort. Mr. Gafoor built up his career from there. He was promoted to Purchasing Manager / Male office, Club Med. He was then employed by Vaadoo Diving Paradise Resort, a 2 star resort in the South Male Atoll, as the Assistant in the F&B department, in 1980. In 1981, he was appointed as a Guest Relation Officer, with the additional responsibility of airport handling. In 1982, Mr. Gafoor was promoted as the Assistant General Manager in the same resort, and in 1983 he was promoted as the General Manager.

Then in 1985, Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor was employed as the General Manager at Cocoa Island Resort; the only private 2 villa resort in the Maldives in 1980’s and the only foreign management hotel in the Maldives at the time. Under his guidance the resort transformed from a 2 villa to an 8 villa resort from 1985 to 1989.

In the year 1990, Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor started managing his own resort, Maayafushi Tourist Resort, in the North Ari Atoll, which was then leased to his company Star Resort And Hotel Company. Maayafushi Tourist Resort was a 3 star hotel with 120 beds and was marketed, operated and managed by Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor from 1990 to 1999. He refurbished Maayafushi Tourist Resort and upgraded it to a 4 star plus resort in 1996.

Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor established a travel company called Aqua Sun Maldives in 1997, which was one of the reputable travel companies in the Maldives. Aqua Sun Maldives did business with almost all the resort hotels operated at that time in the Maldives.

Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor leased Ethere Madivaru Island in North Ari Atoll from a private owner and developed it as a picnic island, which was used by the nearby resorts as a picnic island. Mr. Gafoor also introduced a new style of picnic called the “Robinson Picnic” and worked with an exclusive understanding with Club Med / Kanifinolhu together with the Maldivian Air Taxi (seaplane).

In 2000, Mr. Adam Abdul Gafoor purchased a cruise yacht from Turkey, a 2 mast and 5 sail schooner, and imported it to the Maldives. The cruise yacht “Dream Voyager” was marketed, operated and managed by his company, the Aqua Sun Holidays Maldives.

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Eusoph Yoshau (aka. Aslam)

Eusoph is the Chief Executive Officer at Hutzz and has overall responsibility of the operations of the company.

Eusoph has over 20 years’ experience in entrepreneurship having dozens of business companies. Prior to that, he worked at KPMG and owned a public accounting firm in Maldives.