Private Equity World Middle East 2011 - Speaker list

Ahmad Al-Sari is an Executive Partner of Malaz Capital. His career over the past forty years parallels the history of information technology development in Saudi Arabia. He started as a computer programmer in 1970 at the Information Technology Center (ITC) of King...

Ammar AlKhudairy, Managing Partner of Amwal AlKhaleej Ammar founded Amwal AlKhaleej towards the end of 2004. Prior to that Ammar held a number of senior management positions with Saudi banking institutions, including Head of Strategic Business Development at Banque...

Faisal has been working at SGRF for the past three years, where he is responsible for direct investments in private equity. He started his career as a bank internal auditor specialising in corporate credit, and then moved to financial controlling for a start-up mobile...

Born in January 1974 in Riyadh, he completed his Bachelor Degree in Business Administration majoring in Finance from King Saud University in 1995. After managing the Equity Portfolio at the AlTouq Family Office, from 1996 to 1998 he underwent an extensive training...

Rami Khalid Alturki is the President of Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons (Alturki) which is a leading family owned investment and development company that has been operating in Saudi Arabia since 1975. Its subsidiaries and joint venture companies are involved in...

Ali Arab is the head of Zawya’s private equity research department, a division which he helped establish in 2009 and now runs. Prior to joining Zawya, Ali served at the Lebanese American University, playing a leading role in fund raising from high net worth individuals ...

Since June 2007 Brad has been the Chief Economist at Jadwa investment Company in Riyadh. He is also Managing Director of Proprietary Investments, overseeing investment of the bank’s own capital, and he is the Vice Chairman of the Management Committee. Brad publishes...

Gerald is an Investment Principal responsible for origination and execution. He focuses on the Middle East, French speaking and Irish markets. Gerald joined Coller Capital in 2004 and has been part of the investment team responsible for investing Coller International...

Mr. Cheng is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Kerogen, an Asian based private equity fund focused on the oil and gas sector. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director of Jade International Capital Partners Limited in Beijing. Previously he worked in investment...

Mr. Chowdhury is a Chief Executive Officer at EMP Middle East. Prior to joining EMP, Mr. Chowdhury worked with Credit Suisse Group, Australia. Prior to this, he was at Deutsche Bank Group, Australia, and was responsible for managing and structuring infrastructure, real ...

Douglas Clayton is the Founder and CEO of Leopard Capital, an early investor in overlooked frontiers. In the depths of the 2008 global financial crisis Leopard raised Cambodia’s first private equity fund, which has since made ten investments with two exits. Leopard...

Mr Shahzaad Dalal is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of IL&FS Investment Advisors LLC which is a fully owned subsidiary of IL&FS Investment Managers Ltd (IIML), one of India’s leading Private Equity Fund Managers with US$ 3.2 billion under management. The...

H. Richard “Rick” Dallas joined Gulf Capital as Managing Director of Private Equity Investments in 2007. He is responsible for and manages investment sector identification and analysis, individual transaction evaluation and deal execution at Gulf Capital. From 1999...

Ziad Dannaoui is Managing Director - Investments and a Member of the Management and Investment Committees. He is focused on equities, direct investments and real estate. In addition, Mr. Dannaoui oversees legal and structuring aspects of the Group's...

Shailesh is the Founder and CEO of Al Masah Capital Management Limited (“Al Masah”), an alternative investment firm based out of DIFC. Al Masah was spun out by Shailesh and his senior team from the private equity department of Global Investment House (GIH), Kuwait, and ...

Dr. Steen Ehlern, holds a Masters Degree (Hons.) in Business Administration and a PhD from the University of Zurich. Parallel to his studies, he worked in management consulting, M&A, and merchant/investment banking. During his doctorate (magna cum laude) at the Swiss...

Dr. Karim El Solh is the Firm’s Chief Executive Officer and has over 18 years experience in private equity, investment banking and asset management. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. El Solh was Chief Executive Officer of The National Investor (TNI), one of the leading...

Dr. Pablo Fetter is Head of Private Equity-Direct Investments at Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company. Prior to joining Mumtalakat, he was Managing Director and Partner in Private Equity for Istithmar World and Neuhaus Partners for over nine years. His responsibilities...

Paul Forsyth is a senior and proven business leader with over 30 years’ experience in the finance and investment industry. He is the chairman and CEO of Apache Advisors, a Dubai based management consultancy and corporate finance firm that offers bespoke consulting...

Imad Ghandour is the Founder & Managing Director of CedarBridge, where he focuses on investments in MENA region in growth companies. Before founding CedarBridge, Imad was an Executive Director Private Equity in Gulf Capital for more than five years and the Head of...

Simon Gray joined the DFSA in 2006 as Director, Supervision covering asset management, private banking and funds. His remit includes the supervision of Islamic Financial Institutions as well as conventional Firms offering Islamic Windows. Simon has spent much of his...

Ron Herman is the CEO of Mubadala GE Capital’s operations in the UAE and is responsible for expansion covering the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region. Ron is a 25-year GE veteran having spent time in a number of GE businesses across North America. He began his career...

John A. Hess is a co-founder of Altius and is Chief Executive Officer. He has grown Altius from start-up to a global firm with over USD 18 billion under advice and management, with offices in London, Richmond VA and Singapore; and 35 professionals. Mr. Hess is...

Sigmund is a Strategy and Private Equity professional; in the last 10 years he has advised or managed investments for aggregated US$ 10b and at all stages of the M&A life cycle, in sectors as varied as Telecoms, Energy, Retail, Wholesale, Manufacturing, both in Western ...

Mr. Jalil has over 12 years of experience in private equity and mergers & acquisitions at leading financial services firms such as Jefferies & Company, GE Capital and CSFB. As Head of Private Equity at TNI, Mr. Jalil has made successful investments across the MENASA...

Taimoor Labib joined Standard Chartered Bank as Managing Director, Head of Private Equity - MENA in March 2010 and has over 13 years of direct private equity and mergers and acquisitions experience across a wide range of industries and geographies. Previously he was...

Eric Le Blan is Acting CEO and Chief Operating Officer at MerchantBridge. Eric spent 15 years at S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd working as a Government Adviser and Joint Head of Swaps and Options and seven years at Saudi International Bank where he contributed to the...

Mark Lemmon is the Chief Executive Officer of the MENA Infrastructure Fund. MENA Infrastructure Fund was established in September 2007 and to date has made investments in a container port operation in Egypt and in a power plant company (an IPP) in Oman. Mark was...

Yasmin Malhotra, is the Head of Investments at the Ministry of Defence Pension Fund, one of the largest funds in the Sultanate of Oman. She joined the fund in 2001 and is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategy recommendations and promoting...

Ibrahim Mardam-Bey is the co-founder and CEO of Merchant-Edge, a merchant investment company. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer at Siraj Capital Ltd, and remains a member of the board of directors. Mr. Mardam-Bey possesses a broad range of experiences unique in ...

Adil Marghub is the Manager of Infrastructure & Energy in the MENA Region for the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Adil has extensive experience in infrastructure investments (debt, equity, mezzanine) and advisory transactions in emerging markets. He has...

Is the Managing Director and Head of MENA Investments at Rashed Al-Rashed Group; one of the large conglomerates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Eyad has more than 17 years of experience in the investment and finance field in the MENA region. Eyad is responsible for...

Amir Merchant is the CEO of Altium Capital (Middle East). The Altium Group is the former corporate finance arm of Apax Partners. He is a senior investment banker of 20+ years global experience in the conventional and Islamic Financial Markets. For the first decade he ...

Mr. Munawar Mohammed is a Masters Degree holder from Cardiff Business School; United Kingdom and presently working as Chief Financial Officer in Bayan Holding Company, Kuwait. 16 years of qualitative and rich practical experience in overseeing financial operations...

Nicolas Murat is an Executive Director of Levant Capital, an independent private equity firm focused growth equity and buyout investments. He has over 13 years of private equity and investment banking experience with significant expertise in structuring and executing...

Alex O’Cinneide is the Director of Masdar Capital. He joined Masdar Capital in January 2007 to manage Masdar’s participation in Masdar Clean Tech Fund. Prior to joining Masdar, he was a Managing Partner in Quorum European Partners, an energy technology- focused...

Mr. Osmansoy is the Chief Executive Officer of The National Investor (TNI), a regional investment and advisory company operating from Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Mr. Osmansoy has 20 years of experience in corporate finance, private equity, structured equity and activist...

Ziad Oueslati co-founded Tuninvest Africinvest Group in 1994 with two other partners. He has been responsible for raising several private equity funds and led the arrangement and placement of over $600 million in North and sub-Saharan Africa. Ziad has extensive...

With more than fifteen years of experience in project finance and operations. Mr. Rached has developed a vast experience in structuring and monitoring transactions with profound experience in direct investments and portfolio management. Prior to Emaar Mr. Rached...

Mr. Hossam Y. Radwan is CEO of Abraaj Capital's SAR 2 Billion investment platform (currently under formation subject to regulatory approval) which is dedicated exclusively to investing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Radwan leads the new initiative focused on...

Mr. Gururaj Rao is CEO of Kuwaiti Indian Holding Company (KIHC), a subsidiary of Noor Financial Investment Company, since January 2008. In this capacity, he is responsible for all aspects of the company including asset allocation between private and public equity, real ...

Verena is FCF Partner Middle East and represents FCF in the MENA region with a special focus on the member of the Gulf Cooperation Coucil. Verena addresses institutional investors, private equity companies, corporates and high networth individuals with private equity...

Dr. Basel Hussein Roshdy is currently the Chief Investment Officer and General Manager of Nile Capital, a private equity group, recently established as the evolution and growth plan of the current Fund Manager IT Ventures Company of IT Investments, managing private...

Rafic Said is a Managing Director in the Investor Relations & Business Development Group, based in Dubai. Before joining Park Hill, Mr. Said was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs & Co. for seven years, focused on institutional client management responsibilities in ...

Constantin Salameh is the Chief Executive Officer of Abdulla Al Masaood & Sons , a diversified Abu-Dhabi-based private group with operating companies in the automotive & motor sports, hospitality & leisure , industrial, services and construction sectors. He has 25...

Imtiaz is a corporate partner, based in Hogan Lovells' Dubai office, who is regularly ranked by global legal directories for his corporate and investment funds expertise. With over 12 years' experience working in the GCC, Imtiaz has developed a deep appreciation and...

James Tanner joined Investcorp in 2008 and is Head of the firm's Gulf Growth Capital business. Prior to joining Investcorp, James was Managing Director and a member of the Board of Morley Fund Management, the leading London-based investment house, now Aviva...

Mr. Toubia is an executive with 26 years experience in the energy and private equity industries.. He is a Partner at Energy Capital Group, a global investment firm focused on the oil & gas sector. Most recently he has been Chief Executive Officer of the GCC Energy...

Mr. Triki joined Swicorp in 2003 and heads Swicorp’s Private Equity activities. Prior to joining Swicorp, Mr. Triki spent several years as a Project Leader with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris where he led numerous business strategy and corporate development...

Philip Watkins is a corporate partner in Hogan Lovells’ London office, specialising in private equity and cross-border M&A. Philip advises European, Middle Eastern and US public and private companies and institutional equity investors on mergers and...

Jens joined New Silk Route in 2007 and focuses on private equity opportunities across the Middle East and Asia out of the Dubai office. Jens has nearly two decades of Private Equity experience and a track record of building successful businesses...