Expert Profile
Highly qualified finance executive with 14 years of experience encompassing equity research, investment marketing, business/sector analysis, and management consulting. Highly analytical with expertise in:
• Investment analysis and valuation
• Strategic planning
• Financial modeling
• Writing and oral presentation skills
• Provided bottom up fundamental analysis on listed companies to make buy/sell recommendations. Examined companies’ financial statements, analyzed business trends, and produced detailed forward looking financial models. Liaised with senior company management and researched macro trends to develop holistic overview of sectors.
• Communicated investment advice to sell side sales traders and buy side research analysts/portfolio managers through short and detailed research notes, conference calls, and marketing road shows.
• Arranged corporate access to corporates for key global investors.
• Research received recognition by clients such as Fidelity, Wellington, and Deutsche Bank Asset Management.
• Developed an ambition based industrial policy for the Kingdom of Bahrain as defined by the client. Strategy focused on value addition industries with high trade/job potential and minimal impact on the environment while ensuring compatibility with local competencies.
• Combined UN’s COMTRADE (global trade) and World Bank’s IPPS (environment pollution) databases with the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) database for industry selection using quantitative data.
• Identified best performing economies using quantifiable data combining World Bank, UNIDO, and UNCTAD datasets. Benchmarked Bahrain’s policies against global best practices, identified policy gaps, and recommended solutions
Credit Suisse, Investment Banking Division, Contract, 2.1 years, Global investment bank
Global Securities, Equities research, VP, 2.5 years, Domestic investment bank
Arthur D Little, Strategy consulting, Consultant, 0.8 years, Management consulting firm
Ammar Textiles, Strategy & planning, Senior manager, 1.7 years, Vertically integrated knitwear company
Small & Medium Enterprise Development Authority, Financial Services Group, Manager, Public sector company for development of the SME sector
HSBC Securities, Equities research, Contract, 0.8 years, Global investment bank
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Master of Business Administration, June 1996
Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Bachelor of Science in Finance & International Business, May 1994