north america western asia holdings nawah industry investment founded 2011 website www.nawah.com north america western asia holdings nawah is an investment firm founded in 2011 . it was established by hyatt hotels executive chairman thomas pritzker and former pentagon official paul brinkley to build businesses in the middle east central asia and north africa . 1 nawah currently has two primary business units based in iraq . nawah port management and nawah supply & distribution both are designed to help service the growing supply chain needs of a country with a rising demand for improved logistics . contents 1 nawah business units 1.1 nawah port management 1.2 nawah supply & distribution 2 modernizing the port of basra 3 history and leadership 4 notes 5 external links nawah business units edit nawah port management edit nawah port management npm operates a modernized containerized berth at the port of basra also known as al maqal port . located in the heart of urban basra and less than 100 km from several of iraq s largest oil and gas fields the port of basra is ideally situated to offer superior ease of access to commercial centers as well as the major oil and gas developments in iraq . nawah supply & distribution edit nawah supply & distribution nsd is the exclusive distributor in iraq for mrc global the largest global distributor of pipe valve flange fitting and other oil related product and equipment needs of the world s leading oil companies operating in iraq . nsd s operational headquarters is in a highly secure complex situated in zubair ensuring the rapid transportation of goods to the oil fields that surround it . modernizing the port of basra edit nawah announced in early october 2012 that it had entered into a 10 year 14 million agreement with iraq s ministry of transportation and general company for the ports of iraq to modernize the port of basra . the project completed in october 2014 in record time saw the construction of a 20 000 square meter lay down yard and a new administrative headquarters as well as being equipped with a liebherr 180 mobile harbor crane and a liebherr 645 reachstacker . history and leadership edit thomas pritzker and paul brinkley met while brinkley was the deputy undersecretary of defense leading the task force for business and stability operations the department of defense agency tasked with drawing investors first to iraq and later afghanistan . at the task force brinkley recruited dozens of american business executives to tour iraq and afghanistan including top officials at honeywell ibm and boeing . several firms later made investments in those countries . 2 in 2010 brinkley told the world affairs council of northern california that recruitment was the easiest part of my job . i have yet to find that i can t take an american businessman ideally in his mid forties going through a raging midlife crisis take this guy to a war zone show him around with our troops and then put him in front of a general . all the general needs to say is i need you to help . the hit rate my success rate on that model is extremely high . 3 in 2008 pritzker visited baghdad with morgan stanley vice chairman william strong and cf industries holdings ceo stephen wilson . 4 the three later wrote an editorial in the chicago tribune about their experience . 5 in 2011 pritzker toured bamyan province afghanistan with his wife on a task force sponsored trip . 6 notes edit strahler steven november 12 2012 . hyatt s pritzker tiptoes into iraq . crain s chicago business . retrieved 10 november 2012 . kelly jason october 28 2011 . ex pentagon matchmaker pritzker open firm for deals in iraq . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 28 july 2012 . paul brinkley at the world affairs council of northern california wikileaks cable us business leaders share perspectives on iraq business climate with ambassador . investment opportunities in iraq . chicago tribune . september 9 2008 . retrieved 28 july 2012 . new zealand prt promote progress tourism in bamyan rc east.com august 14 2011 . dead link external links edit nawah official website nawah employees on the center for responsive politics revolving door database retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title north america western asia holdings & oldid 730585323 categories investment companies of the united statescompanies established in 2011hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version 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