Bjorn Tremmerie

Head of ICT & Business Angel Investments, European Investment Fund (EIF)

Bjorn Tremmerie is Head of the ICT and Business Angel Investments division at the EIF, which he joined in 2002.

With his team he invests and monitors investments in Venture Capital Funds in Europe and is in charge of a portfolio of over 150 European VC funds. He also runs the European Angel Fund co-investment programme with more than 100 enrolled Business Angels to date and through which co-investments in start-ups are made.

Bjorn also oversees the Dutch Venture Initiative Funds-of-Funds for the Bavarian region. Until January 2019 he also used to lead the EUR 3.2bn ERP-EIF Dachfonds programme that EIF is implementing on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Affair and Energy (BMWi), an initiative dedicated to the German VC market.

Before joining EIF, Bjorn used to work for a globally active VC fund. He started his career at ING in investment banking.

Jim Totty

Managing Partner, Earth Capital

Jim Totty is a Managing Partner at Earth Capital; a global private equity investment manager focused on the commercialisation and deployment of clean, sustainable technology.

He was previously at Citi Alternative Investments, and before moving into private equity he was a management consultant in the Energy and Utilities group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jim has 25 years’ experience in sustainable investment and technology, gained through 18 years in private equity, and earlier advisory and academic work.

Jim has a PhD and an MSc in Physics from Imperial College London, holds an MA in Physics from the University of Cambridge, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Daniel Teran

Founder, Managed by Q

Dan Teran is the founder of Managed by Q, the world’s leading platform for workplace teams, which was acquired by WeWork in 2019. Following the acquisition, Dan served as Head of Corporate Development and Ventures at WeWork.

Dan has spoken at Harvard, MIT, NYU, and Parsons School of Design about the future of work, and has been recognized by the White House and the United States Department of Labor. He has been named a leading entrepreneur by both Forbes 30 under 30 and Crain’s 40 under 40. Dan is an active investor and advisor to startups, leveraging his deep expertise in product development, brand strategy, marketplaces, and b2b businesses.

Prior to founding Managed by Q, Dan was a Partner at venture development firm prehype, where he co-created startups with the world’s finest corporations and entrepreneurs. Dan began his career in community organizing and progressive politics in Baltimore, and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Dan serves on the Board of Directors of Pursuit, a non-profit committed to helping diverse and low income New Yorkers find their first job in tech.

Abdulrahman Tarabzouni

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Saudi Technology Ventures

CEO & MD of STV, the largest technology venture capital fund in the Middle East.

Previously, held executive leadership roles at Google's headquarters in California. Headed the company's global efforts to build new businesses and partnerships for Android, Mobile, and Wireless Communications. Prior to that, built and scaled Google’s Android and Play business across Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

First joined Google in 2009 to establish and lead Google’s business operations in emerging markets in the Middle East region. Directed Google’s strategy and investments to the region, grew revenues, and drove strategic partnerships.

Prior to Google, co-founded a number of technology ventures in the US and managed different tech consulting, banking, and design engagements at Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and Blueprint.

Member of a number of boards, executive, and investment committees. Founding Chairman of the Saudi VC & PE Association.

Named by the MIT Technology Review as a TR35 Pan-Arab Innovator, listed on the 30 under 30 lists of Arabian Business and Gulf Business, and was first recipient of the MIT ASO Science and Technology Achievement award.

Attended MIT and received BSc and MEng degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a concentration in Economics.

Simon Tandy

Chief Investment Officer, Areef Investments

Simon Tandy is an experienced single family office CIO, based in the region for over 15 years with similar prior periods in London, Hong Kong and Singapore with Jardine Fleming until its acquisition by JP Morgan Chase.

Investing globally outside the GCC/MENA region across all assets classes with a bias towards alternatives, such as private equity & debt markets both through funds and direct investments as well as uncorrelated Life Settlements and Litigation funds and minimal hedge fund exposure.

Ahmed Talhaoui, CFA

Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa and Head of EMEA Product Strategy for Global Fixed Income, BlackRock

Ahmed Talhaoui, CFA, Managing Director, is the Head of the Middle East & Africa Business and Head of EMEA Product Strategy for BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group.

Prior to joining Blackrock in 2014, Mr. Talhaoui was Head of Investments at the PensionFund of the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi. In this role, he had responsibility for the investment of the Fund's assets, including the assessment and selection of external managers of traditional and hedge fund assets, and day-to-day responsibility for managing the Fund's proprietary fixed income and liquidity portfolios.

He was previously Head of Portfolio Solutions with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with Blackrock in 2009. In that role, Mr. Talhaoui was responsible for the management and oversight of all EMEA Index, iShares and model based active fixed income funds.

Prior to joining BGI, Mr Talhaoui started as a front office developer at JP Morgan in 1997, and was Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Portfolio Management at Credit Suisse Asset Management from 1999 to 2005.

Mr. Talhaoui earned a Master in Engineering in Applied Mathematics from Ecole Nationale d'informatique et mathematiques (ENSIMAG), France in 1997.

Noor Sweid

Founder, Global Ventures

Noor is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, a UAE-based, Series-A focused, emerging-market venture capital firm with presence in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. With $200 million AUM, and financial returns rating it as a top decile fund, Global Ventures has become a leading investor across the Middle East and Africa.

Since its inception in 2018, Global Ventures has completed 50 investments across ten markets, deliberately focused on sectors positively affecting millions of lives across the world, such as FinTech, Digital Health, EdTech and AgriTech. In addition to generating top decile returns, the portfolio has had a demonstrable impact on millions of lives through its company founders creating 7,200 jobs, enabling female leadership, powering financial inclusion for over 27 million people and expanding healthcare access to over 4 million patients.

Prior to Global Ventures, Noor was the first woman to operate, scale and IPO a company in the MENA region, listing Depa on NASDAQ Dubai and the London Stock Exchange for US$1.1 billion in April 2008. One of the world’s largest interior contractors, Noor scaled Depa tenfold, expanding operations from six countries to 22, including four cross-border acquisitions.

Identified by Forbes as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech” and by Arabian Business as one of the “Most Influential Arabs”, Noor's previous roles include Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation and a Founding Partner at Leap Ventures. Noor also founded the largest chain of yoga and pilates studios in the Middle East, ZenYoga, which was acquired by Cedarbridge in 2014.

Noor is an active, independent board director of Clue, the largest femtech company in Europe, and VAM Acquisitions Corp., a US based special purpose acquisition vehicle focused on the space ecosystem. She is the Founding Chairwoman of the Middle East Venture Capital Association, a Director of the Global Private Capital Association, TechWadi, and the Karman Fellowship.

She is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. She previously held Board Director roles at MIT Sloan and was a founding board member of Endeavor UAE.

Noor holds Bachelors’ degrees in Finance and Economics from Boston College, an MBA from MIT Sloan.Noor is the Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, a UAE-based, Series-A focused, emerging-market venture capital firm with presence in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. With $200 million AUM, and financial returns rating it as a top decile fund, Global Ventures has become a leading investor across the Middle East and Africa.

Since its inception in 2018, Global Ventures has completed 50 investments across ten markets, deliberately focused on sectors positively affecting millions of lives across the world, such as FinTech, Digital Health, EdTech and AgriTech. In addition to generating top decile returns, the portfolio has had a demonstrable impact on millions of lives through its company founders creating 7,200 jobs, enabling female leadership, powering financial inclusion for over 27 million people and expanding healthcare access to over 4 million patients.

Prior to Global Ventures, Noor was the first woman to operate, scale and IPO a company in the MENA region, listing Depa on NASDAQ Dubai and the London Stock Exchange for US$1.1 billion in April 2008. One of the world’s largest interior contractors, Noor scaled Depa tenfold, expanding operations from six countries to 22, including four cross-border acquisitions.

Identified by Forbes as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech” and by Arabian Business as one of the “Most Influential Arabs”, Noor's previous roles include Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation and a Founding Partner at Leap Ventures. Noor also founded the largest chain of yoga and pilates studios in the Middle East, ZenYoga, which was acquired by Cedarbridge in 2014.

Noor is an active, independent board director of Clue, the largest femtech company in Europe, and VAM Acquisitions Corp., a US based special purpose acquisition vehicle focused on the space ecosystem. She is the Founding Chairwoman of the Middle East Venture Capital Association, a Director of the Global Private Capital Association, TechWadi, and the Karman Fellowship.

She is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. She previously held Board Director roles at MIT Sloan and was a founding board member of Endeavor UAE.

Noor holds Bachelors’ degrees in Finance and Economics from Boston College, an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Masuda Sultan

Chief Executive Officer, Symbio Services

Masuda Sultan is an entrepreneur and women’s rights activist.

Masuda Sultan is founder and CEO of Symbio Services. Her business ventures include projects in education, media, defense, manufacturing, and telecommunications in Afghanistan and real estate in the United Arab Emirates.

Ms. Sultan is a co-founder and current board member of Women for Afghan Women (WAW), the largest women’s rights organization in Afghanistan. Founded in 2001, WAW began in New York City and runs programs assisting women, children and families across Afghanistan in 32 facilities.

Ms. Sultan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Committee. She is a member of the US-Afghan Women’s Council, a bipartisan body set up by the US State Department under President Bush. She is also a founder of American Chamber of Commerce in Afghanistan and the American Muslim Women Political Action Committee (PAC) in the U.S. Ms. Sultan currently serves as advisor to the Afghan Business Council of Dubai and holds an MPA from Harvard University. In addition to her memoir, “My War at Home” her writing has appeared in the NY Times and Miami Herald.

Alex Spiro

Managing Partner, Brighteye

Alex is the founder and managing partner of Brighteye, which he runs with investment partner Ben Wirz. Founded in 2017, the 50m € Brighteye Ventures fund is the first and largest European EdTech focused VC. BEV invests at seed, series A and B, with a geographic focus on Europe, Israel and the USA and looks for early stage companies that leverage technology to help people and organisations learn and grow. Since founding the fund has rapidly become a thought leader in the European EdTech space, holding events, speaking at conferences and publishing frequent state of the art articles and market research reports.

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Alex is an entrepreneur and operator with 11+ years’ experience in media and technology businesses, across publishing, entertainment, mobile gaming and EdTech. In his career, he has sold IP to the likes of Disney, DreamWorks and Netflix, has produced Emmy award-winning content for children and is the co-founder and CEO of multiple award-winning kids mobile gaming outfit Minilab. He holds a degree in History from Oxford University, a second BA in Computer Graphics from Central Saint Martins and an MBA from LSE/HEC and NYU Stern (TRIUM).

Ferran Soriano

Chief Executive Officer, City Football Group & Manchester City Football Group

Born in Barcelona, Ferran has more than 25 years of business experience in ten countries, in the industries of consumer goods, telecommunications, aviation and football.

He served at Futbol Club Barcelona as Vice-Chairman and CEO between 2003-2008 and is credited with playing a major role in the transformation of the club. FC Barcelona started a period that would bring it the best results in its history and became one of the most successful football teams globally, doubling revenues in three years and moving from loss-making to a profit-making position.

Ferran negotiated deals with some of the sport’s most high-profile players, including football superstars like Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi and led on some of the most significant TV and merchandising deals in the industry, including a ground-breaking non-profit making shirt deal with UNICEF.

Author of a book published in more than ten countries and languages – Goal: The Ball Doesn’t Go In By Chance - Ferran is married with two daughters and lives in Manchester.

David Arthur Smith

Senior Managing Director, Co-Investment Team, Capital Dynamics

David is a Senior Managing Director of Capital Dynamics’ Co-investment team. He is also Chairman of the firm’s Clean Energy Infrastructure Investment Committee in respect of certain existing investment mandates. He has over 30 years of experience in private equity and infrastructure financing. Prior to joining Capital Dynamics, David worked with GE Capital in the UK and the US from early 1990 until late 2002, serving in its energy infrastructure finance and private equity business. Earlier in his career, David was engaged as an adviser to AXA Private Equity (now known as Ardian) and established the European business of First Reserve Corporation, prior to which he was with BP Ventures’ solar photovoltaics business. David serves on the board of directors of the Major Projects Association and is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. David holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a master's degree in Engineering, each from the University of Southampton, and an MBA from the Cass Business School of City University London.

Pontus Siren

Managing Director, INNOSIGHT

Pontus is an Innosight Partner who has been based in the Singapore office for 8 years. During his tenure, he has worked across the region and has helped clients such as Johnson & Johnson, the Ayala Group, Singtel, Manila Water and SCG address the challenges of innovation and new growth. He has worked across a range of markets, particularly in India, Singapore, Australia, China, the Philippines, UK, Turkey and Thailand. Pontus speaks and writes regularly on the topic of innovation, and he is the co-author of the 2014 Harvard Business Review article “Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days” and the 2016 MIT Sloan Management Review article “The Next Wave of Business Models in Asia”.

Prior to joining Innosight, Pontus was the CEO of Bioneris AB, a biotech company that was founded together with the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He has published numerous articles on cancer cachexia and sudden infant death syndrome in journals such as The British Journal of Cancer, Experimental Cell Research and Frontier in Neurology. Before his biotech career Pontus worked for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Hamburg.

Pontus has an MBA (honors) from the Helsinki School of Economics, MPhil (honors) from Cambridge University in International Relations, MPhil (honors) from Glasgow University in Russian and East European Studies and a BA in History from Hamilton college.

Ben Simpfendorfer

Chief Executive Officer, Silk Road Associates

Ben Simpfendorfer is CEO of Silk Road Associates, a data-driven strategic advisory based in Hong Kong.

Ben advises Fortune 500 multinationals and leading Asian firms on their commercial strategies in Greater China, South East Asia, the Middle East & Africa, providing clients teams with geospatial-driven solutions based on the firm’s proprietary SRA Intelligence® analytics. He briefs CEOs and executive boards worldwide.

Ben has worked in Asia and the Middle East for over 20 years. He was previously chief China economist at RBS and senior China economist at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. He started his career in Beirut in the 1990s, later working as a Middle East & North Africa senior analyst for Dun & Bradstreet in London.

Ben is a Mandarin and Arabic speaker, and author of The New Silk Road (2009) and The Rise of the New East (2014). He is a leading specialist on China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and a member of the Foreign Experts Committee advising the Chinese government on BRI’s implementation. He is a Board Member of PBEC, one of Asia’s oldest business organizations, and Co-Chairman of the China Business Committee at AmCham Hong Kong. He is also a regular commentator on Bloomberg & CNBC.

Siddharth Shah

Senior Partner, Khaitan & Co.

Siddharth is a senior partner with Khaitan & Co, a leading law firm in India. He has over 20 years of professional experience in advising domestic and international fund clients on legal, regulatory and tax matters involving structuring and organisation of funds/investment platforms. His clients include funds across asset classes ranging from angel, venture capital, private equity, real estate, credit, distress assets, hedge funds, REITs, INVITs etc. He also advises clients on corporate transactions involving M&A, private equity and real estate investments and joint ventures.

He is acknowledged as an expert in his field by reputed legal directories and industry publications and is a regular invitee/member of various industry associations and regulatory committees set up by regulators for policy initiatives. He is also a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences.

Robert Shafir

Chief Executive Officer & Member, Partner Management Committee, Sculptor Capital

Robert Shafir is the Chief Executive Officer of Sculptor Capital and a member of Sculptor Capital’s Partner Management Committee. He is also an Executive Managing Director and a member of the Firm’s Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Sculptor Capital in 2018, Mr. Shafir served in various capacities at Credit Suisse Group AG from 2007 to 2016. Most recently, he served as Chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse Americas and Co-Head of Private Banking & Wealth Management, which included oversight of Asset Management. He was a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group and Credit Suisse.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, in August 2007, Mr. Shafir worked at Lehman Brothers for 17 years serving as Head of Global Equities, as well as a member of their Executive Board. He also held other senior roles, including Head of European Equities and Global Head of Equities Trading, and played a key role in building Lehman's equities business into a global, institutionally-focused franchise. Prior to that, he worked at Morgan Stanley in the preferred stock business within the fixed income division.

Mr. Shafir received a B.A. in Economics from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He is a member of the Board of the Greater New York Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Danny E. Sebright

President, U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council

Danny E. Sebright was appointed in June 2008 as President of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council. Previously, Mr. Sebright worked at the geo-strategic advisory firm The Cohen Group from 2002-2016.  Prior to this, he served as the Defense Department’s Director of the Policy Executive Secretariat for the global war on terrorism from 2001-2002 during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan and Operation NOBLE EAGLE.  He was awarded the Department of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award for his service to his country.

Mr. Sebright also served in the Office of the Under Secretary for Policy at the Department of Defense, where he advised the Defense Department on the Middle East Peace Process, regional arms sales, and counter-proliferation initiatives. He received the Paul H. Nitze Award for Excellence in International Security Policy for his work on the Middle East Peace Process.  Prior to this, Mr. Sebright served with the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1984 to 1995 as a career intelligence officer, earning numerous Intelligence Community awards for his service. Mr. Sebright earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2001.  He earned his BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University in 1984.

Anthony Scaramucci

Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital. He is the author of four books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole (a 2016 Wall Street Journal best seller), and Trump: The Blue-Collar President.

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, he was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.

In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year – New York” Award in the Financial Services category. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), vice chair of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, a board member of both The Brain Tumor Foundation and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012.

In November 2016, he was named to President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the EXIM Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for a period in July 2017.

Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Bobby Sarnevesht

Partner, Proxima Media

Executive Chairman and Owner of Triller, Bobby Sarnevesht, is a highly accomplished figure in the tech and finance industry with over 20 years of experience.

Having earned a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, Sarnevesht began his career working as a developer at IBM Global Services.

From there, Sarnevesht took his developing skills and went on to create and sell several companies of his own. Among those sold are MemoryMedia, a recordable CD Media company and MyHomey, a real estate agent discovery and homebuyer platform that gives users real estate services on-demand.

Aside from his duties as partner of Proxima Media, Sarnevesht recently led the acquisition of Triller, a social media and music app focused on artist and music discovery that touts licensing agreements with all major record labels and groundbreaking AI technology.

Faisal Mansour Sarkhou

Chief Executive Officer, KAMCO Investment Company

Faisal Sarkhou joined KAMCO’s team in 2000 and was last promoted to lead KAMCO in the position of Chief Executive Officer in the first half of 2014 after heading the Corporate Finance Department from 2006 - 2010 and the Financial Services and Investment Division at KAMCO since 2010. Mr Sarkhou was also elected as the Chairman of Global Investment House as of September 2018. He has extensive experience of over 20 years in investment banking, asset management, financial products as well as financial services. Mr Sarkhou commenced his career in the late ‘90s with KPMG Corporate Finance in Kuwait. He serves as a board member on several reputable companies and funds. He also sits on a number of company and investment management committees as well as being a board member and treasurer at the Union of Investment Companies in Kuwait and a member of the advisory board of the College of Business & Economics at the American University of Kuwait. Mr Sarkhou is also a board member on the Industrial Advisory Board at the Australian College of Kuwait. He is an Economics graduate with honors from the University of Birmingham, UK and holds an EMBA with distinction from HEC Paris, France.

فيصل منصور صرخوه

انضم السيد فيصل صرخوه إلى كامكو في العام 2000 . وتدرّج في عدة مناصب قيادية داخل الشركة حتى شغل منصب الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة كامكو في النصف الأول من العام 2014 . حيث قام برئاسة إدارة تمويل الشركات من العام 2006 إلى 2010، ثم تولّى السيد صرخوه منصب رئيس قطاع الخدمات المالية والاستثمار في كامكو في العام 2010 ، تم انتخاب السيد فيصل صرخوه ليتولى منصب رئيس مجلس إدارة شركة بيت الاستثمار العالمي “جلوبل” في سبتمبر 2018 . يتمتع السيد صرخوه بأكثر من 20 سنة من الخبرة المهنية في مجال الاستثمارات المصرفية وإدارة الأصول والمنتجات الاستثمارية والتمويل وبشكل عام في قطاع الخدمات المالية. بدأ الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة كامكو حياته المهنية في أواخر التسعينيات عندما عمل لدى مكتب “كيه بى أم جي” في الكويت. كما يتولى السيد فيصل صرخوه حالياً عدة مناصب تنفيذية حيث أنه عضواً في عدد من مجالس الإدارات لشركات وصناديق استثمارية مرموقة. فالسيد صرخوه عضو في مجلس الإدارة ومدير أمانة الصندوق في اتحاد الشركات الاستثمارية الكويتية، وفي المجلس الاستشاري لكلية إدارة الأعمال والاقتصاد في الجامعة الأمريكية في الكويت، وفي مجلس إدارة المجلس الاستشاري الصناعي في الكلية الأسترالية في الكويت. ويحمل السيد صرخوه بكالوريوس مع مرتبة شرف في الاقتصاد من جامعة برمنغهام – المملكة المتحدة وماجستير تنفيذي في إدارة الأعمال بتقدير امتياز من جامعة HEC في باريس، فرنسا.

Hussain Sajwani

Founder & Chairman, DAMAC Properties

Hussain Sajwani, a UAE national, is the founder and Chairman of global property development Company, DAMAC Properties.

A self-made billionaire, Sajwani has been recognised as one of the most powerful Arabs, among other accolades.

A graduate from the University of Washington, he started his career as a Contracts Manager in GASCO, a subsidiary of ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company). After a short period, he established his own business and in 1982 founded his own catering venture.

From modest beginnings, the catering division has grown from strength to strength and today is a market leader managing more than 200 projects and serving over 150,000 meals daily in a number of markets, including the Middle East, Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In addition to servicing various industries, the division specialises in providing ancillary services such as camp management, maintenance and manpower supply.

In 2002, he identified the market opportunity and established DAMAC Properties, which has grown to become one of the largest property development companies in the region with projects in key global cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Riyadh, Muscat and London.

As an astute businessman and investor, Sajwani also has a proven track record of successful forays into the global equity and capital markets. He established the DICO Group in the early 1990s as his private investment vehicle. The Group focuses on building a diversified portfolio of new businesses across geographies and industries like luxury fashion, real estate, hospitality, manufacturing and more. Today, DICO Group’s global footprint extends across North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa.