Head Of Investments

• Apr 2020 - Present

Head of Real Estate

• Apr 2020 - Present

Head of Investment

• Apr 2020 - Sep 2022

Director of Investments and Portfolio

• 2017 - Sep 2021

Overseeing the Direct Investments and Private Companies Portfolio of the Foundation. I am paving the road towards Financial Self-Sustainability by reviewing our companies operations and proposing optimisations. Reviewing potential investments for the Foundation - Direct, Joint Venture, Partnerships, Club Deals - making sure they are aligned with our core values and meet our returns, diversification and profitability expectations. For our current portfolio I propose Change Management, Capital Restructuring, Pausing investments or Disinvestment. I perform Capital Budgeting and Capital Rationing to select only the best and most suitable investments out of a pool of prospective opportunities. Also in charge of overseeing all Real Estate feasibility Studies. Direct Investments, Real Estate, Capital Markets. Private Company Portfolio = Hospitality (Hotels and Restaurants) , Commercial Real Estate (Shopping Mall), Facility Management, Entertainment, Printing Press. Development of Qatar Sports Business District - Business Center and Incubator dedicated to Sports Companies in Qatar. Part of the Business Development Group and Foundation Self-Sustainability Committee Show less

Head of Investments & Advisory

• 2012 - 2017

Reports to CEO.Working with HNWI, Family Offices and Institutional Clients.Deputy Head of the Investment Management Committee overseeing Macroeconomic Landscape, Global Investment Outlook, Asset Allocation and Funds Selection.Investment Advisory, Asset Allocation, Portfolio Construction responsibilities:* Macroeconomic research and asset classes valuations for Strategic Asset Allocation and Tactical Asset Allocation* Portfolio construction, conceptualization, optimization across all asset classes: Global Equities, Credit, Global Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Alternatives, Hedge Funds, REITS, Credit* Quantitative Portfolio Mix definition using various models: Mean Variance Optimisation, Black Litterman, Risk Parity, Risk Budgeting, Volatility Parity, Minimum Correlation, Maximum diversification...Portfolio Management and Asset Management responsibilities:* Discretionary mandates, Advisory mandates, Specialised mandates.* Credit, Fixed Income Portfolio Management: Corporate Bonds, (IG, HY), EM Debt* Global Macro / Top Down, Equity Portfolio management (US, Europe, EM, MENA)* Equity Long/Short, Managed Futures / CTA portfolio managementConception and Development of Shariah compliant strategies and Islamic indices:* Islamic Hedge Fund Replication * Islamic Gobal Equities, US, MENA, Europe, Asia Show less

Investment Manager - Head of Alternatives

• 2011 - 2017

Reports to CEOInvestment Manager overseeing Qualitative and Quantitative selection and de-selection of Funds, Hedge Funds, Due Diligence.* Qualitative pre-screening: AUM, gating, lock ups, HWM fees.* Quantitative selection, allocation: CPR, z-score, Hurst Exponent, Persistence in returns, volatility, Sharpe ratio, risk budgeting.* Benchmarking, peer comparison and monitoring: KRIs (Sharpe/Treynor/Info ratios, Spearman correlation, Omega ratio)* Funds due diligence (ODD, IDD) and regulatory environment: Manager, Fund, Prospectus, Governance, Service Providers, Investment process, Risk Management, Compliance, AIFMD, UCITS.Development of Quantitative Strategies, Algorithmic Strategies, Systematic Strategies and smart Beta strategies:* Equity HF strategies: Long / Short, Long Only, Market Neutral* Macro, Managed Futures, CTA, Future Term Structure trading, Market Neutral. * Event Driven: Credit event, long/short* Smart Beta: Quality / Fundamental Value, Bottom Up, High Dividend Yield, Low VolatilityETF de-construction and HF replication:* HFRI index replication using liquid instruments* Smart Beta and complex ETF de-construction (Velocity shares, Barclays iPath, JP Morgan indices etc...) Show less

Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager (Credit, Bonds, Equities) & Investment Advisor

• 2008 - 2010

Reported to CIO and CEO.Quickly assumed further role as Prop Trader / Multi-asset class portfolio manager spanning Corporate Bonds (IG and HY), Emerging Market Debt Structured bonds, Credit and Equities. Managed the trading activities of the prop book for the all traded Bonds with a focus on equity and commodity derivatives, and deployed pricing models for market making in structured bonds.* Equity Portfolio Management (US, Europe), Convertible Bonds, Structured Bonds, Inflation Bonds* Risk Trading, Volatility, Warrants, Listed Products, Market MakingExpanded Wealth Management / Financial Advisory business to clients providing breakdown of risk into single components for dynamic management. Performed Portfolio Construction, Portfolio Design and Optimisation for risk mitigation and return maximisation.* Complex Portfolios deconstruction and valuation* Risk isolation, risk break-down* Asset swap, credit sale, derivatives hedging Show less

Head of Equity Structured Products - Cross Asset Structuring

• 2008 - 2010

Reported to CIO and CEO. Built and managed a global structured products business with team covering Europe. Managed the pricing, structuring and origination of Equity deals. Subsequently Conduit Capital bought the Equity Trading team from Icelandic bank Landsbanki.Deployed structured products pricing model in Front Arena using local vol, stochastic vol, stochastic rates with quant teams.* Equity derivatives pricing, payoff design and reverse engineering* Options, Structured Products, Exotics* Trade ideas* Deployment of stochastic and local Volatility model in Excel VBA. Show less

Director – New Product Development, Equity Thematic indices and Sustainable investments

• 2005 - 2008

Co-built the investment product suite for ABN AMRO's Private Investor Product (PIP) group catering to the Private Banking, Asset Management and Wealth management arms. Raised in excess of USD 15 billions and accounted for a quarter of the overall bank's Equity P&L.Developed the "Eco Markets" franchise that would set the world trend for "Green investments", CSRI and ESGI. Built the first Global Water index that would later be integrated by S&P, developed the first Climate Change Index, Biofuels index, Renewable Energy index, Waste Management, Solar, Wind Power, Geothermal index etc... leading to ABN Amro being named "Sustainable Bank of the Year 2007" by the FT. Award led to ABN Amro partner with the World Bank.Architect of the whole bank's Commodity offering for Global Business Unit (Europe + MENA + AsiaPac). Used multiple legal structures and the bank Equity EMTN program (notes, funds, certificates, options) to gain access to various jurisdictions and specific strategies.Indexes were also used as benchmark and reference instruments for the bank ETFs and ETCs.* Equity and commodities indices (sectorial and geographical)* CSR (Corporate Social Responsible) and ESG (Environment and Social Governance) Investments, “Green” indices* Commodity Investment Strategies, Commodity Indices Show less

Director – Shariah compliant Islamic Products, Sukuks and Structured Products

• 2005 - 2008

Managed the creation and development of the suite of Islamic investment products for the bank Shariah compliant investment platform for the Middle East Region (GCC). Products were created in multiple asset classes, and utilising the fund wrapping and SPV platforms in multiple formats: Funds, Asset Backed Securities / Sukuks.Products were sold under the ABN Amro brand name, or developed as white label for various local institutions and regional banks such as Emirates NBD, Al Mumtaz, Falcon Private Bank etc...Awards: #1 Best UAE Fund in 2008, and #5 fund in the UAE in 2008.Shariah Compliant investment products :* Sukuk structured products (capital guaranteed structures)* ABN Amro Islamic Commodity Index* Islamic Real Estate infrastructure index, Water index * CSR, ESG and Green investmentsReported to Global Head of Structuring. Worked with 20 sales desk (150+ people) across Europe, Asia and Middle East. Focused on Equity, Hybrid and Commodity structuring for the private banking and wealth management sales channel.* Structured Products: Pricing, Hedging, Design (new payoffs)* Equity Derivatives : Single Stocks, Baskets, Indices* Commodity Indices (GSCI, RICI) option pricing* Vanilla and Exotics derivatives (Ratchets, Cliquets, Autocallables, Digitals, Forward Strike etc...) Show less

Director - Funds, ETF and Quantitative Investment Strategies

• 2005 - 2008

Part of the bank’s Funds Investment platform “Market Access” launching Mutual Funds, ETF, ETC and Hedge Funds. Built vast array of ETFs and UCITS funds (in Luxembourg) in the Fixed Income, Equity and Alternative space.Funds and ETFs were distributed worldwide with a focus on Europe and Asia. Also performed manager sourcing, research, due diligence, on-going monitoring.Developed Alternative, and multi-asset Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) underlying many Funds.* Smart Beta ETFs and strategies* Quantitative Long, Multi-Factor, Long/Short, Market Neutral and Pure Alpha strategies* Alternatives, Hedge Fund strategies, Hedge Fund ReplicationBuilt first ever systematic strategy exploiting the "Turn of the month" effect in the Equity Space.Created and developed for Jim Rogers "Jim Rogers RICI Enhanced" franchise of 38 strategic indices in the commodity space which raised in excess of USD 3 billions. Show less

Institutional and Corporate Sales

• 2004 - 2004

Money Market instruments and derivatives sales to Institutional and Corporate Clients. Fixed Income | FX * Fixed Income swaps, deposits, loans * FX: spot, forwards and swaps Money Market instruments and derivatives sales to Institutional and Corporate Clients. Fixed Income | FX * Fixed Income swaps, deposits, loans * FX: spot, forwards and swaps