Executive Officers

Fawad Tariq Khan, 39
Chief Executive Officer and Director

He has served as a Managing Director of its Investment Banking Group since September 2019, with responsibilities for SHUAA Capital’s advisory, capital markets and credit business lines. He also serves on the board of directors of Northacre, a London-based luxury homebuilder, and NCM Investment Company, a global foreign exchange and commodities platform. Mr. Khan started his career at Deloitte & Touche in September 2006 based out of London, before eventually joining the Dubai office where he helped set up its Middle East debt advisory practice. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College Cork and a Master of Science in Business Studies from UCD Smurfit Business School. Mr. Khan also served in the military police of the Irish Reserve Defense Forces.

Mohammad El Beitam, 37
Chief Financial Officer

He joined SHUAA Capital in July 2021 as a Director in the Investment Banking Group. Mr. El Beitam co-founded Xate Energia, a Brazil-based renewable energy company focused on distributed generation and led the development and operations of solar projects since January 2020. He previously worked in the New York and Abu Dhabi offices of Macquarie Capital from July 2014 to December 2019. Prior to joining Macquarie Capital, Mr. El Beitam started his career with Deloitte & Touche where he worked from August 2006 until July 2014. Mr. El Beitam holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut.

Board of Directors

Ali Ojjeh, 54
Independent Director

 Mr. Ojjeh has served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of The Capital Partnership (“TCP”), an asset management and investment platform with $7 billion in assets under management, since he co-founded the company in 1998. During that time, he also served as the chairman of TCP’s executive and investment committees and is currently a director of several private TCP portfolio companies. Since July 2016, he has also served as the Executive Chairman of Northgate Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm with $5 billion in assets under management. Northgate Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in London, Mexico City, and Melbourne.  Prior to co-founding TCP in 1998, Mr. Ojjeh worked in various departments at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York, including Equity Research, Equity Trading, Equity Proprietary Trading and Principal Investments. In 1996, he relocated to Morgan Stanley in London, where he managed client portfolios at Morgan Stanley Asset Management.  Mr. Ojjeh is active in education and serves as on the advisory boards of the Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.  Mr. Ojjeh holds a Bachelor of Science in Financial Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School. He received the “Best article of the year” award from the Wharton Journal in 1988.  Mr. Ojjeh possesses a Series 7 NASD Registration and has been approved by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority under section 59 of the Financial Services and Markets Act of 2000 to perform certain controlled functions for TCP in the United Kingdom.

Dhaen Al Hameli, 38
Independent Director

As the Executive Director of CPD, which includes ADIA’s Central Treasury, Trading and the Total Portfolio Solutions Groups, Mr. Al Hameli enables ADIA’s total portfolio management strategy through funding implementation, beta replication and execution. He is responsible for the overall management of the CPD and is particularly involved in the areas of investment strategy, performance, risk, and organizational development. Mr. Al Hameli joined ADIA in April 2006 as a Credit Analyst in the Fixed Income & Treasury Department. During his time with the Credit team, he managed the Telecoms, Media, and Technology portfolio and covered-bond portfolio. In 2009, he moved to the External Fixed Income team where he focused on hiring external managers alongside his day-to-day duties. In March 2011, Mr. Al Hameli was promoted to Deputy Director of ABIA, a position he held until becoming Executive Director in 2017, and began managing ADIA’s liquidity needs and cash investments in the short-term money markets, as well as overseeing a global portfolio of investment across a broad range of fixed income securities. Mr. Al Hameli currently holds a number of additional active roles within ADIA, including service as Second Vice Chair to the Management Committee and as a member of the Investment Committee. He also has extensive experience serving on the boards of directors of notable institutions, including in his current position on the board of the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (“ADIB”), which began in May 2019. He previously served from on the board of the Abu Dhabi Investment Company from June 2015 until May 2019, on the board of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company from October 2014 until February 2018, and on the board of the Arab Investment Company from June 2012 until June 2015. He completed the Executive Education, General Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 2014 and graduated from Concordia University from a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Concordia University in Montreal in May 2006. He has been a CFO charter holder since 2008.

Saleh Al Hashemi, Ph.D., 49
Independent Director

Dr. Al Hashemi became the Chairman of Dubai Islamic Insurance & Reinsurance Co. PJSC in March 2021 and has served as the Chairman of Reem Finance PJSC, an Abu Dhabi- based provider of innovative financing products for the MENA region, since December 2016. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Algorythma, a world-class sustainable technology company, from July 2017 until June 2021, the Managing Director of Krypto Labs, a global innovation hub, Managing Director of Saal, an innovative applied artificial intelligence company, from May 2017 until May 2021, as a member of the board of directors of Alef Education, an education technology company, from January 2018 until January 2021, and as a member of the board of directors of Silicon Valley-based 500 Startups, the most active global venture capital firm, from March 2018 until December 2020. He served from May 2011 until September 2016 as the Executive Director of Infrastructure and Environment at the General Secretariat of Abu Dhabi’s Executive Council. During his tenure at the Executive Council, Dr. Al Hashemi was instrumental in advising the government in restructuring key infrastructure projects and state-owned commercial enterprises to improve the use of sponsor capital and financing to better align these initiatives to the long-term interests of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. From September 2016 until July 2017, Dr. Al Hashemi was also the CEO and Managing Director of Integrated Capital PJSC. In 2001, he led the development of the Petroleum Institute where he helped open several innovation and research centers within the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company complex. Dr. Al Hashemi holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University. He is a patented inventor and a published author in several peer-reviewed academic journals, including Science Magazine.

Aashir Ahmed Siddiqui, 46
Independent Director

Mr. Siddiqui has served on the board of directors since August 2020, and as a general partner since December 2021, at Sukna Ventures, a Riyadh-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in digital transformation businesses. Mr. Siddiqui is also currently working with several venture capital and private equity funds and startups, typically on the advisory board and/or investment committee as a coach or mentor, including: Race Capital (formation stage enterprise infrastructure deep tech VC fund), Merus Capital (top quartile early stage enterprise deep tech VC fund), Lumikai Fund I (India gaming and interactive media-focused VC fund), VI Partners (Swiss-based health sciences and technology-focused VC firm), Zayn Frontier Capital (early-stage VC fund in Pakistan), and Unifonic (coach and mentor to the founders since 2016 of a leading CPAAS business), among others. He was part of the global leadership team as a partner and member of the investment committee at 500 Startups (now 500 Global) from November 2016 to March 2019, dividing time between San Francisco and the Middle East, where he raised significant capital and was a partner on flagship funds. Prior to 500 Startups, Mr. Siddiqui was Group Vice President and Global Head of M&A and Corporate Venture Capital from April 2006 to September 2014 at Etisalat Group, an Emirati-based multinational telecommunications services provider, where he led and closed deals valued at approximately $15 billion, with approximately $7 billion invested. From April 2015 to May 2016, he was a member of the investment committee of Mobily Ventures, a Riyadh-based venture capital firm investing in high-tech startups, and was seconded from September 2014 to September 2016 as head of corporate development at Mobily, a Saudi Arabian telecommunications services company. He was a founding board member and chairman of the investment committee from February 2013 to May 2017 at iMENA Group, an Emirati-based start-ups investment company. Mr. Siddiqui started his career as an entrepreneur in the late 1990’s and was part of the early founding teams at several startups in the United States and United Kingdom, including Asite.com (CommerceOne-powered enterprise e-procurement portal) and Instantreg.com (co-founded Santa Clara-based event registration business-to-business software-as-a-service business now part of Nvolv). Mr. Siddiqui holds a Masters in Science in Software Development and a Bachelors of Arts in Business Administration from Coventry University, UK, and he has attended several executive education programs at INSEAD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, including the Stanford VC Unlocked Program and the Stanford Idea-to-Market Program.