Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> October 13, 2003
ROGER A. RACHED is the Founder of International Hi Tech
Industries Inc. and has been a Director and the President since
May 1993. After graduation from Stanford University with a
Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1984, Mr.
Rached became actively involved in the family business of
Garmeco. Garmeco is an architectural, engineering and
construction management company that has been based and operating
in Lebanon for 42 years and now is located in Vancouver, Canada.
Mr. Rached is also President of RAR Consultants, RAR Investments
and the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
Canadian Hi-Tech, IHI International, and IHI Construction Ltd. He
has extensive design experience along with a strong sales
orientation and an international market appreciation. Mr. Rached
is also a member of the Association of Civil Engineering, the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the British Columbia Board of
Trade, the Alumni Societies of each of the American University of
Beirut and Stanford University, and the American Society of Civil
Engineers. Mr. Rached is a Registered Civil Engineer with the
Lebanese Order of Engineers, Beirut, Lebanon, holds a
Professional Civil Engineering License from the Ministry of
Public Work, and is Secretary of George Washington Free Masonry
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