The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Georgetown University

Northwestern University

Advisory Board Member, Institutional and Family Investment Adviser, Investment Management & Consulting Professional.

Wealth Well

Investment Committee Member

Silver Peak Capital Advisors

Founder and CEO

Mercer Middle East

Senior Advisor  / Affiliated Consultant

Bidaya Finance

Non Executive Board Member

Riva investments (Part of Othaim Holding)

Confidential Single Family Office

Investment Commitee Member

-  Advising Family offices, Endowments and Pension fund clients on asset allocations, investment 
    strategies and portfolio construction
-  Leading the development of the Shariah Compliant solutions offering across the Mercer Global 
    platform
-  Leading and coordinating investment manager selections across asset classes
-  Conveying Mercer’s global intellectual capital, market research, and dynamic asset allocation views to 
    our clients 
-  Utilizing extensive regional network to develop new business opportunities and identify new 
    potential clients across the GCC
-  Leading a project, as part of Outsourced-CIO solutions, to develop a multi-manager and multi-asset 
    class platform catering to mid-size family offices and UHNWIs
-  Speaking at regional investment conferences

Principal and Senior Investment Advisor

•	Consulting: Advised HNWI and Families on investment selection, corporate and real estate valuation and asset allocation strategies, and worked as a financial institutions and banking consultant in conjunction with Euromoney institutional consulting
•	Training: Lecturing as an experienced professional on topics of asset management, wealth management and investment product development, financial markets, investment manager selection, portfolio construction, and behavioral finance at UAE institutions, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Emirates Investment Bank.

YA Financial

Managing Director 

Head of Asset Management and Proprietary Portfolio Management. 
As chairman of the Investment Committee, responsible for the management of the Bank's $600 million-plus portfolio of global equity and fixed income assets.  Also responsible for advising the Bank's institutional and HNWI clients on investment strategies, asset allocation, money manager and security selection.

Emirates Investment Bank pjsc

Executive Director, Asset Management

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Head of Investments & Portfolio Manager

Vice President & Portfolio Manager, Treasury & Investments
Management and monitoring of the Bank’s proprietary investment portfolio over $1 billion in assets, including +$500 in distressed and troubled structured finance investments.  Responsible for a portfolio restructuring project, the unwinding of the distressed assets portfolio  and the development of a new portfolio strategy and asset allocation for the Bank across multiple asset classes.

Vice President - Portfolio Manager

Responsible for investment analysis and decision making on the company’s proprietary portfolio of several hundred million dollars, across all asset classes, with focus on GCC and Emerging Markets Equity Funds, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity.

SHUAA Capital psc

Vice President-Corporate Investments

Fund Manager, Equities Group, July 2005 – March 2006
Managing the Retirement Corporation’s Multi Asset Class funds-of-funds (over $3.3 billion in assets)

Senior Investment Analyst, June 2004 – June 2005
Responsible for fund structuring, investment analysis, money manager searches, periodic evaluations and due diligence on the Corporation's six billion dollar fixed income investment portfolio.

ICMA-RC

Fund Manager, Equities Group

Modeling Analyst, June 2002 – October 2003
Senior Modeling Analyst, October 2003 – March 2004
Quantitative Analysis Team – Office of Internal Audit
Position responsibilities include assessing and replicating the internal models used in pricing mortgage-backed securities and determining interest rate, credit and derivatives exposure, as well as performing regular oversight of the company’s risk management and finance functions.

Fannie Mae

Senior Modeling Analyst

Senior Consultant
Financial Commodities Risk Consulting
Assessed the risk of financial instrument and derivative portfolios and verified the financial reporting of major corporations by reconstructing and testing financial statements.  This involved researching and understanding the corporate operational and finance environments.

Arthur Andersen Business Consulting

Senior Consultant

Investment Analyst
The position involved designing and implementing growth oriented income-generating strategies through structuring private and public equity portfolios.

Yaser AbuShaban, CFA