Thirty years structuring, financing and scrutinising major projects across the Middle East, Europe and Asia, with over $30bn of transactions on both sides of the table. Board experience within Saudi Arabia's Ajlan & Bros group, from facilities management to fintech: the questions that protect capital, and the experience that unlocks it.
A career spent where governance matters most: boardrooms, investment committees, government steering groups and restructuring committees, where the numbers had to be right and the risks had to be named.
Deep fluency across every source of finance, from banks and bond markets to development institutions, export credit and equity, and what each one costs, hides and demands. Built for audit and finance committee work.
Qualified Energy Risk Professional with a quantitative risk background. Currency, commodity, interest rate, counterparty and delivery risk, identified before they become board surprises.
Decades appraising other people's business cases as lender, investor, adviser and government gatekeeper. I know what a bankable plan looks like, and what an optimistic one is hiding.
Nuclear, metro, utilities, schools, housing, renewables: programmes where oversight failures cost billions. Practical experience of what boards of project-heavy businesses must ask.
From Scotland's national investment bank to NEOM's energy and water utility: hands-on financing of wind, solar, storage, hydrogen and the net-zero agenda boards are now accountable for.
Four years inside the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance advising on sovereign financing and PPP frameworks. I understand how governments in this region think, which is valuable to any board that deals with them.
Led financial structuring of the Abu Dhabi government's financing package for the 5,600 MW plant.
Advised the government on PPP and financing strategy for the emirate's metro and light rail programme.
Principal of the Department of Finance's infrastructure fund partnership from inception.
Lead financial adviser to the Saudi Ministry of Health on the largest project of its kind in the GCC.
Managed the 2016 and 2017 sovereign issuances and the initiation of the Moody's rating.
Strategic financial adviser to ADIO on Abu Dhabi's first schools PPP, closed at around $270m.
Financial lead for ENOWA on the landmark solar IPP with ACWA Power, plus bankable frameworks for multi-billion-dollar projects.
Represented the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance on committees; developed debt restructuring and capital-markets recommendations.
Available for non-executive director, advisory board and committee roles in the UAE and wider Gulf.
Developers, contractors, utilities and asset owners, where project selection, financing discipline and risk oversight decide everything.
Groups investing in energy and infrastructure, or bringing outside perspective onto the board for the first time. Discretion and long-term thinking come as standard.
Growth companies raising serious capital, and funds or platforms needing investment-committee rigour on the board.
The natural home for a career lender, investor and financial adviser: challenge on the numbers, the assumptions and the downside.
The group's facilities-management venture with Germany's Dussmann Group. Served on the board representing the shareholder, Ajlan & Bros Holding.
Ajlan & Bros's digital wallet and payments platform. Board oversight of a regulated, high-growth fintech through its build-out.
Short guides to the rules shaping UAE boards, written for founders, family businesses and fellow directors.
What the rules require by company type: listed, private JSC, LLC, DIFC, ADGM or free zone.
Read →The independence tests under the UAE governance code, without the legalese.
Read →Non-executive quotas, UAE-national requirements and the women-on-boards mandates for listed and private companies.
Read →The Central Bank's stricter board rules: fully non-executive boards, one third independent.
Read →A practical starting point for growth companies not ready for a formal NED.
Read →NEDspace is building towards a free, open resource for non-executive directors in the UAE. المحتوى بالعربية قريباً.
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