Overview
Duriya Farooqui is a board member and former C-suite leader with a proven business transformation and innovation track record and extensive experience guiding Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 global public companies. Farooqui has served in various leadership roles, including COO for the City of Atlanta and President of Supply Chain Innovation at Georgia Pacific. Farooqui is a Board Director of Intercontinental Hotels Group (NYSE: IHG) and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). She also serves on the New York Stock Exchange and ICE NGX boards, which are ICE subsidiaries. In addition, she co-chairs the NYSE Board Advisory Council, which is committed to advancing diversity on corporate boards. Farooqui is the 2021 recipient of OnBoard’s 19th annual Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans award in recognition of her transformative endeavors serving on public boards and championing diversity.
"Honestly, it was absolutely wonderful. I thought that she was just always locked in. She’s brilliant. I think we had the right temperament for each other. So we had good coaching chemistry and she was always very structured. It was like trying to manage someone as crazy as me."
– Senior Vice President, Multinational Technology Company
Career History
Most recently, Farooqui was President of Supply Chain Innovation at Georgia Pacific. In this role, Farooqui was responsible for driving supply chain transformation and leading a center for innovation where over 40 companies came together to solve supply chain challenges through rapid experimentation, digital technology, and collaboration across industries.
Before this role, Farooqui was Executive Director of Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP), an organization focused on critical economic development investments in Atlanta, where she led a unique public-private partnership of thirty CEOs (including Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, UPS and Invesco), university presidents, civic leaders, and the Mayor. As chief executive of the organization, Farooqui was responsible for setting a clear vision and strategy and working with CEOs to develop action plans against ACP’s priorities. She helped execute the launch of Engage Ventures, a first-of-its-kind innovation platform comprised of category-leading corporations in the Southeast that support and invest in startups building enterprise solutions. Farooqui served first as an officer, securing the support of founding member corporations, and later as Senior Advisor, where she helped design and advise Engage’s operating model for the go-to-market program.
Before joining ACP, Farooqui was a principal at Bain & Company, where she advised and worked with Fortune 1000 companies on growth strategy, transformation, and commercial excellence.
Previously, Farooqui served as the Chief Operating Officer for the City of Atlanta. In this role, Farooqui led all operating departments of the city, spanning a $2B budget, 7,000 employees, and the busiest airport in the world. At the start of her career, she worked with the Center for International Development at Harvard University, the World Bank, and the Center for Global Development.
Personal
Farooqui earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Hampshire College and a Master of Public Administration and International Development from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Active in civic leadership, she is a Trustee of Agnes Scott College, a Governing Board Member of the Woodruff Arts Center, and on The Carter Center Board of Councilors. Farooqui currently resides with her family in Atlanta, Georgia.
