Farooq Soomro

Farooq Soomro is an accomplished business leader with over 14 years of experience within the corporate world and E-Commerce solutions.  He has been involved in software designing and development, electrical systems, international sales and marketing, supply chain management, cost reduction, process reengineering and industrial manufacturing, system design & project management. 

Farooq combines project management with strong leadership and relationship building skills.  He is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Alt-Source Exchange Incorporated and he has also worked in the past at Siemens Energy & Automation as a principal engineer, E-business manager and technical manager with industrial systems in the Technical Services Division.

He has worked at the University of Alabama in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.  Farooq has been diversity leadership academy fellow from the American Institute of Managing Diversity in Atlanta, the commission member of Georgia commission on Asian-American affairs and Ethnic Community Advisory Counsel, Atlanta Regional Commission and he was also a community advisor to Atlanta Immigration Advisory Counsel Bureau Citizen & Immigration Services.  He has worked as an Executive Director for Pakistani-American Community of Atlanta in the past.

Farooq remains politically active and has been involved in critical races in Atlanta and surrounding areas where he has directed, organized, participated in all aspect of fundraising management for political candidates.  He has been active in the Asian-American Heritage Foundation of Georgia and he has also been recognized in Who’s Who in Asian-American Community leadership recognition. 

Farooq has been active in the Pakistani-American Community activities and he has been serving in the Pakistani-Americans in many areas of civil rights, community outreach and has been a spokesman for the community to news media, law enforcement or any various departments.  Farooq holds an MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville and BS in electrical engineering at Gannon University , Erie , Pennsylvania.