Chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund, China, since March 2003
Member of the 15th CPC Central Committee
Member of the 16th CPC Central Committee

Professional Experience

1998-2003	Minister of Finance, China
1995-1998	Deputy Commissioner of State Administration of Taxation, Secretary of the Leading Party Group of State Administration of Taxation (Minister Level)
1994-1995	Deputy Commissioner of State Administration of Taxation, Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Group of State Administration of Taxation
1993-1998	Leader of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development
1992-1994	Vice-Minister of Finance, China, Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Group of Ministry of Finance
1986-1992	Vice-Minister of Finance, China, member of Leading Party Group of Ministry of Finance
1963-1986	Joined public service in the Ministry of Finance with various positions in the Tax Bureau, Budget Department, and Planning and Policy Department of the Ministry
1960-1962	Analyst, Computing Technology Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Concurrently
Honorary professors of Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, National School of Administration and Institute of Science of Ministry of Finance.

Education

1956-1960

Chinese Literature Department, Shandong University

Major Publications
Fiscal System Reform in China
Fiscal System Reform and Macro Economic Management in China
Fiscal Development Strategy in 90'
The Theories and Practices on Management off Budget Funds
China: Market Economy and Macro Economic Management

 

Dr. Taher is the founder and CEO, in addition to her capacity as an executive director of the Gulf One Investment Bank. By holding this position, she is the first Female CEO of a Gulf Investment bank. Prior to that Dr. Nahed was a managing partner of Compass consulting, a financial advisory company. Before that she was a Chief Economist and Chairman of Risk and Portfolio Management Committee at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) in Jeddah.

She represented the Saudi government, the private sector, and chamber of commerce in many high level international business and banking events.

Dr. Nahed was ranked by FORBES magazine as no. 72 of the 100 most powerful women in the World. She also received recently the award of Businesswoman of the year 2006 by HH Prince Hamid Al-Nihayyan, In addition, she received the award of ¡°Saudi Businesswoman of the year 2007¡± by HRH Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.

Dr. Nahed M. Taher holds dual Masters Degrees in Financial Economics and a PhD in Monetary Economics from Lancaster University in the UK.

Dr. Taher served as a professor and head of the Economics Department at King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU). She was also a co-owner and a financial advisor to various private companies in the Kingdom. Dr. Nahed is a board member in a number of Saudi private companies and committees including:

• The OECD-MENA region Financial group
• Young President Organization (YPO)
• The Saudi Committee of the Eisenhower Fellowship
• A board member in the Saudi German business group
• A board member in the Economic Committee of Mecca Al Mukaramah Region
• a Member of the Saudi Economic Association
• the Businesswomen's Committee of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce,
• A Board Member of the Small-Medium Enterprises Center in the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce

 

Current responsibilities at The RisKontrol Group GmbH (2000-present)
Dr. Kreuser, building on 24 years of financial modeling at the World Bank, founded The RisKontrol Group GmbH in 2000 for the development of state-of-the-art tools and techniques for and consulting on the strategic analysis and management of financial risks due to uncertainty in interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, macro-economic factors, etc. associated with asset/liability portfolios. He is responsible for designing and building tailor-made, enterprise-wide, integrated, and open risk management models for strategic asset/liability management and for providing services in risk education, risk reviews, research, maintenance, and client partnership programs. Some of the main clients are central banks, ministries of finance, pension funds, and insurance companies.

International Reserves Management Advisor for the IMF (2000-present)
Dr. Kreuser, under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund, provides expertise (advisory, technical, and training) to central banks on reserve management, the development of risk management capabilities, and on sovereign risk including asset and liability management.

World Bank experience (1974-1998)
Dr. Kreuser has held several positions at the World Bank during his tenure from 1974-1998 including head of Modeling Support for Finance and Projects and head of the Quantitative Analysis Consulting Group. He led a project, funded by the World Bank Research Committee, for developing and applying state-of-the-art tools for asset/liability management in developing countries for central banks and ministries of finance. He has developed and implemented portfolio models, cash flow models, industrial planning models, health sector models, economic models, and other project sector models. He has provided the modeling leadership for several World Development Reports. He has worked on projects in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and China. He has also advised the Finance Complex on modeling applications on derivatives and regularly taught internal workshops on modeling applications in economics and finance and an international workshop on risk management for central banks and ministries of finance.

Dr. Kreuser co-developed and implemented one of the first dynamic asset and liability models under uncertainty for risk analysis that was applied in the real world. It was regularly used in weekly strategy meetings in the mid-seventies in the World Bank's Treasurer's Department for the management of their fixed income portfolio of around $US 6 billion.

Other experience
Dr. Kreuser is an Adjunct Professor of Operations Research at George Washington University. Since 1982, he has regularly taught a graduate course on the Applications of Linear and Nonlinear Optimization with applications in Economics and Finance. He redesigned that course and established a modeling laboratory at the university to support it. Dr. Kreuser received acclaim for his teaching methods and the course has since become a regular part of the curriculum. He has regularly taught international workshops on the theory and application of modeling in finance, projects, and economics, in Washington, DC; Munster, Germany; and Madrid, Spain. He also taught a workshop on strategic-integrated asset and liability management in Cologne, Germany. Dr. Kreuser has developed numerous analytical tools and techniques for finance and economics at the University of Wisconsin and at the IBM Scientific Center.

Education
Dr. Kreuser holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Programming/Computer Sciences and a Masters and B.A. with Honors in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.

 

Moorad Choudhry is Head of Treasury at KBC Financial Products in London, the derivatives and convertible bond trading arm of KBC Bank N.V., Brussels. He joined there from JPMorgan Chase Bank, where he was a vice-president in Structured Finance Services sales and marketing. Prior to that he was a sterling proprietary trader in the Treasury division at Hambros Bank Limited, and a gilt-edged market maker and money markets trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Limited. He began his City career at the London Stock Exchange in 1989.

Moorad is Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University, a Visiting Research Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance, Cass Business School, a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. He was educated at Claremont Fan Court School, University of Westminster, University of Reading, Henley Management College and Birkbeck, University of London.

Moorad has published in the field of finance and is author of The Bond and Money Markets (Elsevier 2001), Structured Credit Products (John Wiley 2004), The Credit Default Swap Basis (Bloomberg Press 2006) and Bank Asset and Liability Management (John Wiley 2007), among others.

Moorad lives in Surrey, England.

Toby has eleven years experience working with Global pension funds, reserve funds and sovereign funds. During his career he has worked with many investors in the Middle East, Europe and Africa in helping them manage the risks and costs of restructuring their portfolios.

Toby joined Citi in 2006 as head of EMEA Transition Management Sales & Relationship Management.

Toby was previously a Vice President and head of UK & Ireland Transition Management at State Street. Whilst at State Street Toby was involved in completing one of the largest transitions in the world involving over 25 billion pounds in assets and 900 portfolios. In total the transition lasted 18 months. More commonly Toby works on transitions of portfolios that take from 4-8 weeks from initial meeting through to completion.

Prior to joining State Street Toby spent six years in the fund management industry working with Morgan Stanley Investment Management on the institutional side.

He studied Economics and Philosophy at Southampton University. Toby is an FSA approved person and holds the Investment Management Certificate.

Daniel Smaller, as Managing Director, Sales & Distribution. Daniel has over 25 years of relevant experience in the Financial Services Industry and has been involved in the MENA region for over 11 of those years.

Prior to committing to Algebra Capital, Daniel moved to Dubai 2 years ago to set up and manage Deutsche Bank's Asset Management business in the MENA region. Daniel worked for Deutsche Bank for the last 8 years in Hong Kong and London where he was Head of Global Sales and Head of Emerging Market Sales, respectively.

He has been active in Emerging Markets since 1989 when he took over as Head of Citibank's Asian Equity operation in London. In 1992 he initiated Lehman Brothers' Emerging Market effort in Equities and was the first to introduce Institutional Investors to the MENA region in 1993. He completed the first privatization in Morocco in that year and assisted in the development of the MENA equity markets throughout the early 1990's. In 1994 he moved to UBS to Head up Sales for EMEA and continued to be very active in the Middle East. Daniel started his Financial Career in Bahrain in 1982 working for Citibank Treasury; he continued to work for Citibank in London, Zurich and Sydney from 1985-1989 in the fields of Equity, Debt, Mezzanine Finance and Private Equity.

Daniel holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and International Relations from the School of International Service at American University in Washington DC and an MBA from the University of Chicago in International Finance.

Mohieddine Kronfol as Managing Director, Asset Management. Mr. Kronfol has over 10 years of relevant experience in financial services including a 3 year track record in regional fixed income markets and founding roles in 3 start up businesses.

Prior to committing to Algebra Capital, Mohieddine was a founding partner at HYPHEN, a Beirut based asset management company. He negotiated one of the region's first prime brokerage accounts and set up the infrastructure to trade 3 global hedge funds and manage a fund of hedge funds. HYPHEN was also on the Investment Committee of Quilvest MEA, a subsidiary of Quilvest which managed over USD 6 billion in assets.

Prior to joining HYPHEN, Mohieddine was the Head of SHUAA Capital's Debt Asset Management Department as well as the Fund Manager of The Arab Income Fund (TAIF). TAIF traded emerging market and exotic debt as well as local and foreign currency debt in the MENA region.

Mohieddine was also Head of SHUAA Capital's Capital Markets department were he managed investments globally in FX, commodity, interest rate and equity markets, including related cash, futures and options securities. Products included leveraged CLN notes on regional credits, alternative investments with UBP (today the 2nd largest hedge fund platform), commodity mining and exploration portfolios as well equity and commodity linked capital guaranteed products.

Prior to joining SHUAA Capital in August 2000, Mohieddine was a Senior Associate at Middle East Capital Group (MECG), a Beirut based investment bank with a regional focus. At MECG (1996-2000), Mohieddine worked on all legal, structure, financial and IT phases of an auto loan securitization mandate (together with the IFC). He also traded Arab equities, fixed income, structured products (Collateralized Bond and Loan obligations in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan), and was a licensed broker on the Beirut Stock Exchange. Mohieddine traded international convertible bond issues and positioned MECG as one of the most active regional players in that space.

Mohieddine holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and an MBA from the American University of Beirut.

 

 

 

Haissam Arabi is Managing Director of SHUAA Asset Management a division of SHUAA Capital psc. He oversees more than US$800mln in assets under management spread over 12 mutual funds and several discretionary portfolios that specialize in both Arab Debt and Arab Equity Capital Markets. He is also the fund manager to all Arab equity funds, which include the ¡°Arab Gateway Fund¡±, voted best performing Fund amongst its peers in 2004 by Forsyth Partners after achieving 58% return. Arab Gateway Fund invests in listed equities of the GCC and Arab markets in addition to the ¡°Emirates Gateway Fund¡± a UAE country fund that has returned to shareholders more than 300% since its inception in April 2002. He is also the fund manager of the recently launched Arab Islamic Gateway Fund, a Shariah compliant version of the Arab Gateway Fund.  Furthermore, Mr. Arabi manages several third party Conventional and Shari'ah compliant funds sponsored by regional financial institutions which include mandates by National Bank of Kuwait, Saudi British Bank and HSBC Ammanah.

Mr. Arabi has more than 14 years of experience in the financial arena, of which the last 12 years were spent specializing predominantly in equity investments in Arab and GCC markets; he is also involved in Business and Product Development as well as structured products. Mr. Arabi is a member of SHUAA Capital's Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining SHUAA Capital, Mr. Arabi was Vice President in the Capital Markets Department at Middle East Capital Group, a regionally focused investment banking firm headquartered in Beirut, where he started the first Middle East and North Africa equity-trading and client advisory desk that participated in both the primary and secondary markets of the region. Prior to moving to the Middle East Mr. Arabi acquired first hand experience of the money management business in the US as an NASD mutual fund representative in a US based family of funds for 2 years. Mr. Arabi holds a BA degree in International Business (1993), from the American International University in London. He also holds NASD Dealers' Series 6 & Series 63. Mr. Arabi has frequent public appearances on TV networks, radio stations, conferences & seminars, periodicals and daily newspapers.

 

 

David Hauner is presently with the IMF in Washington and was previously with Munich Re in Munich. Dr. Hauner has six years of experience in emerging market analysis, particularly in Eastern Europe. He is currently the fiscal expert on the IMF Russia team and has before worked on countries as diverse as Armenia and Rwanda. He is also closely involved in the IMF's surveillance of fiscal policies around the world. David has written extensively on the nexus between fiscal and financial market issues in emerging and mature economies, including effects of financial globalization on fiscal policy. His work appears in academic journals, including The Journal of Banking and Finance, International Finance, and Applied Economics. He has edited a special issue on Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets in Emerging Markets for Emerging Markets Finance and Trade and has been a speaker at many conferences. He studied at the University of Vienna (Austria), the Ecole Superire des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (E.S.S.E.C., Paris) and Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and the C.F.A.

Donui Agbokou is Senior Strategist at ABP Investments in Amsterdam. She works in the Allocation and Research Department, being involved in the make-up of the Strategic Investment Plan. She joined in April 2007. Her experience before that had spun over the sell-side and the buy-side, having been associated with Fortis Investments (Asset Allocation) and Morgan Stanley (Equity Research). She started her career in 1998 in Paris in the research department of Cr¨¦dit Agricole.

Donui holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Durham (UK), a Masters in Macroeconomics from Universit¨¦ Paris-Dauphine and a Masters in English and Spanish from Universit¨¦ Paris-Sorbonne.

ABP is the pension fund of some two and a half million Dutch civil servants. ABP Investments has some €210 billion under management.

 

I. Employment History

BPI Investment Management, Inc.
(a wholly-owned subsidiary of BPI engaged in mutual fund management and distribution)

• President (May 2004 to present)

Bank of the Philippine Islands
(founded in 1851, the oldest bank in the Philippines)

• Vice-President, Securities Distribution Group

Head, Investment Funds Distribution
(Sept. 2001 to May 2004)

• Vice-President, Asset Mgt. & Trust Group

Head, Retail Trust Division
(Nov. 1998 to Aug. 2001)

BPI Capital Corporation
(a wholly-owned subsidiary of BPI engaged in corporate finance and merchant banking activities)

• Vice-President, Corporate Finance Group

Head, Syndications and Underwriting
(Jan. 1995 to Oct. 1998)

Bank of the Philippine Islands

• Vice-President, Corporate Finance Division

Head, Syndications and Underwriting
(Dec. 1989 to Dec. 1994)

• Asst. Vice President, Corporate Finance Division

Head, Equities and Bond Underwriting
(July 1988 to Nov. 1989)

• Asst. Vice President, Trust & Investments Division

Head, Trading Room
(Aug. 1986 to June 1988)

• Asst. Vice President, Capital Markets Group

Head, Private Banking Unit
(Sept. 1985 to July 1986)

• Asst. Vice President, Trust & Investments Division

Head, Business Development Unit
(Feb. 1985 to Aug. 1985)

BPI International Finance Ltd. (HK)
(a wholly-owned subsidiary of BPI engaged in deposit-taking and fund management activities)

• Asst. Director Head,

Investment Management Dept.
(1983 - 1984)

Bank of the Philippine Islands

• Asst. Vice President, Trust & Investments Division

Head, Portfolio Management Unit
(March 1981 to Jan. 1985)

II. Organization Affiliations

Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP)
(the mutual fund industry association)

• President (2003, 2004, 2006)
• Trustee (2005)
• Chair, Gov't. & Regulatory Affairs Committee (2007)
• Corporate Secretary (2007)

III. Education

Grade School - Ateneo de Manila University

High School - Ateneo de Manila University

College - Ateneo de Manila University
A.B. General Studies (Honorable Mention)

Graduate - University of the Philippines
M.B.A.

Ingmar van Herpt has worked since 2001 as a senior economist in the Financial Markets Division of De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands, and has been closely involved in the reserve management of the central bank. Before that he worked in the Ministry of Finance on EMU-related issues. He is co-editor of a recent book on central bank reserve management (Bakker and Van Herpt, Central Bank Reserve Management: New Trends, from Liquidity to Return, Edward Elgar, UK, 2007)

Ismail Dadabhoy - Head of Islamic Finance Distribution, servicing the financing of Asset as well as the Liability with Sharia compliant products to corporations, Banks, Sovereigns etc. Ismail has been in the financial market for 26 years of which 15 years spent within the UBS group working in London, Singapore, Bahrain and Dubai. Ismail established the Islamic finance unit at UBS ¨C London in 2000 .He developed UBS¡¯s global presence in the Islamic Banking market, providing solutions to institutional and private banking clients. Ismail has assisted in the development of many innovative Islamic products providing clients with enhanced returns. Prior to Islamic Finance, Ismail headed the international repo desk for UBS London and later moved to Singapore to establish the Asian repo business. In his capacity as a repo trader and manager, he gained wide experience of the Bond and derivative products which has proved an invaluable asset in developing the Islamic business.

Prior to joining Capital Management House Mr. Quadir worked at Financial Transaction House, Jeddah, a Saudi based investment banking firm specializing in various capital market and private equity transactions. Mr. Quadir was Managing Director at Kamphart Capital Advisors, a Boston, USA based investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions, private placements, structured finance, venture and private equity transactions. Mr. Quadir has in excess of 25 years of investment banking experience which includes major bank and non-bank mergers and acquisitions, cross-border equipment leasing transactions, real estate securitization, leverage buyouts, private equity and early stage venture financing.

Mr. Quadir's previous work experience includes:

• Portfolio Manager at Boston based Commonwealth Enterprise Fund and Shawmut Bank Venture Fund (presently Bank of America)
• Managing Director at Corporate Realty Capital, a real estate investment bank
• Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance at NEBankIreland and Vice President at CSA Financial Corporation, an equipment leasing firm.

Mr. Quadir has significant investing experience in private equity and early stage companies. He has served on various portfolio company Boards that includes biotechnology, manufacturing, healthcare, financial service and consumer durables.

Mr. Quadir received his M.A. degree in Economics and Mathematics from Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Mr. Lasse Tryde is Assistant Head of Risk Management where he has been working for 7 years. His main areas of responsibility are the investment principles of the bank including the guidelines for credit, interest, liquidity and currency risk and the choice of asset classes. Earlier Mr. Tryde has been in charge of implementing a customised risk management system for Danmarks Nationalbank and for the Kingdom of Denmark ?a total portfolio of gross US$200 billion. As one of the senior staff members of the department Mr. Tryde was a major contributor to the book "Financial management at Danmarks Nationalbank" from 2004. Before joining risk management Mr. Lasse Tryde spent five years in Statistics Department in the bank. He holds a masters degree in Economics from Copenhagen University.

As Managing Director of Al Futtaim Capital LLC, Marwan Shehadeh is responsible for Al Futtaim Group's business development and investment activities, with the goal of identifying new opportunities to further diversify the Group's activities. The main growth areas have been identified as Real Estate Development, Financial Services and Private Equity. Al Futtaim Capital also acts as the Group's real estate asset management arm.

Shehadeh joined Al Futtaim in 2003 as Director of Finance of Dubai Festival City LLC - the Middle East's largest, privately-funded mixed-use development located on a 5.3 million square meter land on the banks of Dubai's Creek. Shehadeh was a key member of the senior executive team which manages all aspects of this US$12 billion project including Development, Design & Construction, Leasing & Marketing, Finance & Asset Management, Human Resources as well as Operations. Shehadeh has been particularly instrumental in the development of Dubai Festival City's hospitality offerings, including the Four Seasons, The W, Intercontinental as well as the Crowne Plaza Hotels. Shehadeh also structured and raised over $2BN in bank loans for this mega project.

Shehadeh started his career with The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, by completing the one year credit training programme and ended his five year tenor at the bank as an Associate in the corporate finance division. Shehadeh then moved to Beirut and established the Middle East operations for Hard Rock Caf¨¦.

Prior to joining Al Futtaim, Shehadeh was Chief Financial Officer of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's Kingdom Hotel Investments.

Shehadeh holds a Masters Degree in International Business from the Institut D'Etudes des Relations Internationales in Paris. In 2001, he successfully completed a general management executive programme at Harvard Business School.

 

Mikko brings 25 years of global management experience in building technology businesses for new markets, including over a decade of successful venture capital investing in both the US and in Europe. Now he is a second generation expatriate in the Middle East.

His hands-on experience on more than 20 boards includes executing strong corporate governance, strategic planning, turn around management, cross border and cross continent divestments, IPO planning as well as in developing effective boards and management teams.

Mikko was a partner with 3i, a global leader in private equity, in the US and a founding partner of SFK Finance in Europe, which was acquired by 3i. He has held operating positions in developing new businesses at Nokia, Unisys and as a Managing Director of 3D Computing, in addition to being a consultant with McKinsey.

Mikko received his MBA from the Helsinki School of Business in Finland. He holds a BBA from Portland State University, Oregon, and has attended executive education at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Nasser H. Saidi is the Chief Economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Executive Director of the Hawkamah-Institute for Corporate Governance at the DIFC. He served as the Data Protection Commissioner from January to August 2007.

He is a former Minister of Economy and Trade and Minister of Industry of Lebanon (1998-2000). He was the First Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon for two successive mandates, 1993-1998 and 1998-2003. He is co-chair with the OECD of the MENA Corporate Governance Working Group and established the Lebanon Corporate Governance Task Force. He was a Member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (UNCDP) for two mandates over the period 2000-2006, appointed as a member in his personal capacity by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

He has a recent book, ¡°Corporate Governance in the MENA countries: Improving Transparency & Disclosure¡±, and a number of books and publications addressing macroeconomic, capital market development and international economic issues in Lebanon and the region. His research interests include macroeconomics, financial market development, payment systems and international economic policy, and ICT.

Dr. Saidi has served as economic adviser and director to a number of central banks and financial institutions in the Arab countries, Europe and Central and Latin America. Prior to his public career, Dr. Saidi pursued a career as an academic, as a professor of economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago, the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva, CH), and the Universit¨¦ de Gen¨¨ve, and was a lecturer at the American University of Beirut and the Universit¨¦ St. Joseph in Beirut.

He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester in the U.S.A, a M.Sc. from University College, London University and a B.A. from the American University of Beirut.

Paul joined ABN AMRO Asset Management (AAAM) in March 2007 as Director ¨C Middle East & Africa. His role involves responsibility for the firm's clients and prospects across the Middle East and Africa region, and he also shares additional responsibility for the firm's central bank and sovereign wealth fund clients globally.

Between 2003 and 2007 Paul was Head of Equity Portfolio Management at GIB(UK) Ltd, a UK investment bank which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank. His responsibilities in this role involved overseeing the team of portfolio managers responsible for institutional client portfolios, representing the team and its products to existing and potential clients in the Middle East and Africa, and assisting with the external marketing efforts of the firm. Paul was a member of GIB(UK)'s Asset Allocation Committee and had additional responsibility for the firm's multi-strategy equity hedge fund. Between 1998 and 2003 Paul filled various portfolio management roles on the equities desk at GIB(UK), including managing the indexation process and the convertible arbitrage and merger arbitrage strategies.

Paul is a CFA charterholder and is an associate member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals. He holds a BA(Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Durham, UK.

Contact details:
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7678 2493
Mob: +44 (0) 77 3818 9437
Email: paul.harrison@uk.abnamro.com

Rakesh is responsible for structuring and investing real estate funds on a worldwide basis. He has over 12 years of experience, including 4 years of experience in investing capital in key markets in the United States, The Gulf Region & South Asia. Rakesh also has experience in investing capital according to Sharia' compliant principles.

Global Investment House, Kuwait is a leading Investment Company in the Middle-East, listed in Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai and has assets under management in excess of $7.5 billion.

Saqib has over 6 years experience in corporate finance and private equity. He started his career in 1998 with General Electric Corporation, where he participated in the company's 2-year Financial Management Program. During his tenure, Saqib gained experience in global financial planning & analysis and corporate development/M&A. Prior to joining Abraaj, he worked at Spring Capital Partners, a US-based private equity fund focused on middle-market mezzanine investments. His responsibilities included reviewing business plans, conducting industry research and company due diligence, building valuation models, and assisting portfolio companies on strategic issues. Saqib also has experience at McKinsey & Co, where he was a Summer Associate in the Dubai, UAE office.

Saqib holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Wharton School and a Masters in International Affairs from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from The George Washington University. Saqib is a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded a research grant in 2003 to conduct a study of the private equity industry in Egypt.

Previously, Thor was a Principal with Bank of America Securities in London and New York, where he focused on M&A and corporate finance for the energy, power, utility and energy technology sectors. Prior to Bank of America, he was with the Global Energy team at Credit Suisse First Boston focusing on utility and power M&A. Thor holds a Juris Doctorate (Law) and MBA from Georgetown University, and passed the California Bar exam. Thor also received a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

Win Phromphaet is Fund Manager and secretary to the Investment Committee of the Social Security Fund, Thailand's largest institutional investor, where he has been working for more than 5 years. He is responsible for managing local currency bonds, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and offshore investment of the old-age pension fund with AUM of US$10 billion. He is also assigned Deputy Spokesperson for the Social Security Office. Early this year, he was awarded Outstanding Government Officer 2007 from the Prime Minister.

Win holds a BA in Economics (International Program) from Thammasat University and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands, sponsored by the Royal Thai Government. He is a CFA Charterholder and Scholarship Chair of CFA Society of Thailand.

Win is currently teaching Financial Management and Money & Banking at the International Program of Thammasat University, Thailand.