Sultana Mangalji
Philanthropist & Community Activist


SultanaMangalji.jpgSultana is currently an American Leadership Forum Fellow in Houston's Class XXVII.  She worked with Holiday Inn, Inc, Hyatt Hotels and Cendant Corporations for Franchise Relations before joining her family's hotel company as Director of Operations where her responsibilities included implementing risk management strategies for all the hotels in the US portfolio, setting up budgets and capex for all US hotels, and re-positioning of hotels with franchise, cap-ex and budgets. Sultana received her BComm with a minor in Education from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and completed a Program for Managers at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Earlier in her career, Sultana operated a day care facility named Kaleidoscope Kids, and worked closely with the families and children. She collaborated with Corporate Hands, and the Family Child Care Collaborative.

Sultana's board memberships include UNICEF, The Aga Khan Foundation, National Committee, Teach for America, Houston READ Commission, Houston Greeter's and Texas Children's' Cancer Center.  She was a co-chair in 2008 of "Treasures of the Islamic World Gala" which raised $3.625 million for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.  Sultana and her husband Moez have two daughters, Selima and Shamsa who interned with RFS.