CEO, AmeriFreight Inc.
Asadullah Sameer Ismailzada (EMBA ’22) is the chief executive officer of AmeriFreight Inc., a leading auto transport company. Prior to this position, he served as senior vice president of Allied Fidelity Group LLC from 2015 to 2022. A distinguished lawyer in his native Afghanistan, Ismailzada came to the U.S. in 2013 and has since earned two advanced degrees and risen to lead two large companies in less than a decade.
Ismailzada, a member of the historically marginalized Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan, got the opportunity to pursue his education upon the fall of the Taliban in 2001. He was one of 57 out of more than 120,000 Afghan students taking the university entry exam who succeeded in going to law school. As a lawyer, he served in a senior role with the Afghan Justice Sector Support Program and the Justice Training Transition program funded by the U.S. Department of State to help improve access to justice and the rule of law. Understanding the transformative power of education in his life, Ismailzada and his family lead a home-based charity from which they cover the annual education costs for children across the world.