Fawaz Khalil

President and Chief Executive Officer ModusLink

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Fawaz Khalil is President and Chief Executive Officer of ModusLink, the supply chain, fulfillment and cross-border commerce services business, a role he has held since June 2020. His tenure has coincided with the steady withdrawal of the structure above him from public markets: ModusLink’s parent Steel Connect was squeezed out and delisted from Nasdaq in January 2025 by Steel Partners Holdings, which already owned more than ninety percent of it, and Steel Partners itself then voluntarily delisted from the NYSE and deregistered later the same year. Khalil is an operator from the industrial world rather than a logistics lifer — he ran Halco Lighting Technologies as President and CEO and Filtration Group as President, and came up through Danaher and Acuity Brands — and he brought Hoshin Planning and Lean management with him.

Career Highlights

• President and Chief Executive Officer of ModusLink Corporation since June 2020, through two successive changes in the ownership structure above the company.
• Identified as ModusLink’s Chief Executive Officer in Steel Connect’s SEC filings, most recently in a Form 8-K of May 2024 disclosing a base salary increase to $360,000, a target bonus of 100% of base salary, and an award of 1,907 restricted common units of Steel Partners Holdings L.P.
• Previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Halco Lighting Technologies, the lighting products company, immediately before ModusLink.
• Served as President of Filtration Group, and held leadership roles at Danaher and Acuity Brands earlier in his career.
• Has introduced and implemented Hoshin Planning and Lean management principles across the last three businesses he has led.
• Has worked with and led multicultural teams across Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

Professional Journey

Khalil built his career in industrial and manufacturing businesses, starting with leadership roles at Danaher — the group whose business system did more than any other to popularise Lean management in American industry — and at Acuity Brands. He moved into general management from there, serving as President of Filtration Group and then as President and Chief Executive Officer of Halco Lighting Technologies. ModusLink’s own biography describes him as having spent twelve years as a profit-and-loss owner across businesses ranging from middle-market private-equity holdings to Fortune 500 companies, in turnaround, growth and strategic-shift situations, and as a hands-on leader equally at home on a shop floor teaching lean flow and in a boardroom on strategy deployment.

He became President and Chief Executive Officer of ModusLink in June 2020. ModusLink is a supply chain services business — materials and transportation management, kitting and assembly, B2B and e-commerce fulfilment, returns management, and cross-border commerce with multi-currency payments — and was then a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nasdaq-listed Steel Connect, Inc., itself majority controlled by Steel Partners Holdings L.P.

The structure above him has simplified twice since. By April 2023 Steel Partners had a stockholders agreement in place with Steel Connect, and by the end of 2024 it held more than ninety percent of the common stock. On January 2, 2025 an indirect Steel Partners subsidiary merged into Steel Connect under Delaware’s short-form merger provisions, paying minority holders $11.45 a share plus a contingent value right, and Steel Connect left the Nasdaq Capital Market. Three months later Steel Partners itself announced it would voluntarily delist its own units from the New York Stock Exchange and deregister; trading moved to OTCQX from May 2025 and deregistration took effect that July. ModusLink now sits inside a group that files no periodic reports at all.

Khalil’s own compensation had already been tied to the parent before any of this: the May 2024 Form 8-K disclosing his raise granted him restricted units of Steel Partners Holdings, not of Steel Connect, vesting in full on October 1, 2026. ModusLink’s leadership page still carried him as President and Chief Executive Officer when this profile was reviewed on September 19, 2026.

Education

University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business

MBA

ModusLink’s own biography also states that he holds a BS in computer science. No source found names the institution that awarded it, so it is not recorded as a separate education entry.