CAPT. ADHIL RASHEED

CEO - Maritime Academy of Maldives , ( MSc, MNI)

Captain Adhil Rasheed attained Master of Science in Maritime Operations from Liverpool John Moores University, UK in 2006 and obtained Class 1 Master (F.G) Unlimited from Maritime Coastguard Agency, UK in 2003. Upon completion of his formal education, he chose Seafaring as a career in 1991. Sixteen years from this life changing initial step prompted by his love for seafaring, he now commands irrefutable respect and achievement with his peers and friends alike. To date, he has even commanded the prestigious Hanydymax vessels worldwide. He has also undergone “New building supervisor” training in Saiki, Japan during which he successfully supervised two ship erections in all stages, as a trainee.

Due his vision, enthusiasm and passion to train the Maldivian youth in seafaring, Captain Adhil has worked relentlessly to reach the pinnacle of his chosen career. Resource lectureship experience at the Maritime Training Center, Maldives National University Male’ in 2009 further enhanced his dedication & commitment to attain his goal. In keeping with this lofty and noble vision, Captain Adhil has undergone extensive training abroad that has given him excellent experience and peer recognition. To be a lecturer at the first ever United Nation Conference on Trade Development (UNCTAD) program of “Diploma in Port Management” held in the Maldives on 2011 is worthy proof of his success.

In his capacity as CEO & Education Program Director at the Maritime Academy of Maldives (MAM), he relentlessly pursued & received full recognition from Liberian Maritime Authority (LISCR) and ISO 9001-2008 from IRS, and Later ISO 9001-2015 from BV. Captain Adhil renders his expertise when and where required. He serves as a consultant for several local maritime companies, including the Maldives National Defense Force. This expertise includes a variety of maritime related issues, policy implementation and in salvage operations.

Apart from being the CEO of MAM, Captain Adhil Rasheed is also a consultant of Triton Consultants & Surveyors where he carries out ISM, ISPS & MLC Audits, Ship inspection, Valuation and marine surveying. He is a correspondent to Charles Taylor & Co. Limited, Greece, West of England P & I Club, and Britania P & I Club, UK.

In addition to this, he is the Co-founder of Nautical Institute, Male’ Branch, and Co-founder of Maritime Academy of Maldives.

Mohamed Firaz

Director of Academics , MAM Business School (BA-HEP, PGCE, MBA, ALPT (UK), FInstLM (UK))

Mohamed Firaz attained First Degree in three Majors (History, Economics and Political Science) from University of Mysore, India in 2009 and secured First Class Distinction. He was awarded merit certificate scoring the highest marks in Economics from the University of Mysore. Later, he successfully pursued a teaching qualification and training from the National University of Maldives and was awarded The Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in English in the year 2011. His passion of learning enabled him to complete MBA in Open University Malaysia in 2013.

Upon completion of his formal education he chose teaching and education administration as a career from 2009 onwards. He has completed parallel terms of tenure ship as a principal in various densely populated high schools in the country, Maldives. He has gained experience in both public and private sector having worked in high profile executive level jobs.

His passion of teaching reflected him irrefutable respect in teaching profession mainly at Tertiary level Education in private colleges such as Avid College, Mianz International College, Cyryx College, Mandhu College, Clique College and The National University of the Maldives.

Several years of teaching experience in tertiary education, gained confidence on him to teach several franchised programs of world famous universities and qualifications. Today, he is an approved Tutor for Maldives for Help University Malaysia, Heriot Watt University of UK, and Associate Business Executives of UK.

Apart from formal teaching, he has engaged in different kinds of community awareness training and corporate trainings building high levels of networking with the industry professionals. He is a civil service training Institute certified trainer. Mr Firaz also had completed high levels of managerial and leadership development trainings from Maldives and abroad. These trainings provided him high levels of recognition. He also holds position of Advisory Committee member of Epitome: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (ISSN: 2395-6968). He plays an active role in Knowledge transfer and wisdom participating and presenting papers in international conferences. He also has authored and published an academic research titled “The challenges for the survival and growth of MSMEs: the case of local travel agencies in the Maldives”.

Both his meritorious qualifications and experiences guaranteed him a step forward in his career. He now holds the position of Director of Academics, Maritime Academy of Maldives Business School and plays an important role in shaping the future of the institute with a unique Teaching Philosophy Perspectives. He is today a Fellow of The leadership and Management Institute, UK and holds FinstLM.