Engro Corp. – Management Brief

Shahzada Dawood, 48, who was among the five people killed on the Titan submersible as it descended to the Titanic wreckage on June 18, was a British Pakistani businessman and the vice chairman of Engro Corp., a business conglomerate headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. Engro Fertilizers Ltd., one of the company’s business units, is Pakistan’s leading urea producer, with 2.19 million mt/y of urea capacity and 1.23 million mt/y of ammonia capacity in 2023.

According to the New York Times, Dawood’s work with the company focused on renewable energy and technology. He was also involved in the Engro Foundation, which supports small-scale farmers. Dawood’s 19-year-old son, Suleman Dawood, also perished on the Titan, along with British businessman Hamish Harding, diver and Titanic researcher Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, which owned the submersible.