Investment Manager
2012 - PRESENT
Private Equity Funds in Calgary
- Built detailed financial models of companies and projects, including return analysis, sensitivity analysis, risk assessment, and valuation.
- Prepared selling pitches and gave presentations to raise capital - including the raise of $50 million from a single institutional client for a new idea.
- Sourced, screened, performed due diligence and executed asset purchases for portfolios worth $100 million.
- Sourced, performed due diligence, and executed asset purchases for $25 million non-leveraged farmland portfolio that was later sold for an IRR of 15%.
- Led team of five financial professionals covering the western Canadian market.
- Managed a team of 6 handling administrative and back office matters, issuing investor updates and periodical releases.
- Developed a strategic plan and financial forecasting model in support of a $5 million stake in the managing company.
- Handled all administrative, regulatory and legal aspects of launching new funds, including launching a fund in two weeks to capture the registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) season.
Focus areas: Valuation Modeling, Cash Flow Modeling, Financial Modeling, Fund Management, Capital Raising, Capital Structuring, Wealth Management, Budgeting, Project Finance, Cash Flow, Cash Flow Forecasting, Fund Structure, Funding Process, Fund Governance, Fundraising
Head of Investment Banking
2010 - 2012
Global Investment House
- Sourced, analyzed, and successfully closed acquisition deals, including the successful sale of a $30 million oil services company in three months.
- Conceptualized, designed and built many selling pitches - including a pitch of a holding company with 17 subsidiaries.
- Designed, built and produced marketing materials and presentations, including a digital media presentation for the sale of a multi-media company.
- Built detailed financial models of companies and projects, including return analysis, sensitivity analysis, risk assessment, and valuation.
- Built detailed turnaround strategic plans aimed at enhancing the value of takeover targets, including adding new market sectors and segments for a retail company.
- Analyzed regulatory and taxation environments to produce different fund structures to facilitate acquisitions.
- Conceptualized and implemented the organizational structure, created budgets and strategic plans of the division and target firms.
- Supervised and carried out in-depth analyses of different firms aimed at reaching fair values, optimum capital structures, most suitable exit scenarios and tailored unique investment structures.
Focus areas: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Equity Offerings, Equity Valuation, Debt Structuring, Debt Raises, Capital Raising, Capital Structuring, Corporate Finance, Valuation, Valuation Multiples, Valuation Analysis, DCF Valuation, M&A Modeling, Cash Flow Modeling, Valuation Modeling, Transaction Modeling, Acquisition Accounting, Business Advisory, Capital, Investor Decks, Equity Capital, Startup Funding, Capital Structure, Fund Structure, Finance Structures, Market Research, Financial Restructuring, Debt Restructuring
Senior Portfolio Manager
2009 - 2010
Prime Holding Group
- Managed institutions and high net worth individuals’ portfolios and mutual funds, including a $2 billion pension portfolio for the national bank of Egypt.
- Managed direct investment funds, which entailed analyzing potential target firms, sitting on board of acquired firms, setting strategic plans for acquired firms.
- Oversaw and helped in the compiling of performance reports and presented the reports to portfolio holders.
- Set the strategic vision of the whole group and the investment criteria through membership in the holding firm’s investment committee.
- Built and gave presentations to potential investors that lead to successfully managing their portfolios, including the successive engagement of 5 investment portfolios for a high net worth individual totaling $300 million.
- Worked along with lawyers, advisers, and marketers to launch and raise capital for new funds, including one of Egypt's first dollar-denominated USD funds.
Focus areas: Equity Research, Equity Valuation, Portfolio Analysis, Investment Portfolio Management, Stock Trading, Fund Formation, Performance Reports, Risk Models, Risk Analysis, Investment Monitoring, Investment Thesis, Value Investing
Chief Executive Officer
2007 - 2009
Inertia Investment
- Founded Inertia Investment Group, a group of investment companies; also served as CEO and was responsible for overseeing the strategic initiatives, maintaining client relationships, and directing operations.
- Made the concept into a reality through the launching of the company, compiling the founding partners, raising the seed capital, completing all regulatory and legal requirements to start the company.
- Built and executed the strategic plan for the company to become the fastest growing investment house in the middle east.
- Developed and implemented a strategic plan and financial forecasting model for the company's brokerage arm, which enabled it to become the fastest growing Egyptian brokerage house in 2008.
- Planned and executed the research department for the company - including building the organizational chart and setting duties and responsibilities, complete recruitment process to hire 10 analysts, designing the periodical publications as well as the research templates for different market sectors.
- Oversaw the analysis and write-ups of all the research products, including publishing market, economic, sector and company reports.
- Solely built the group's strategic plan that led to the expansion of the group to comprise three branches with 65 finance professional working for the group.
Focus areas: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Reverse Mergers, capital markets, IPO, Equity Research, Equity Raises, Equity Valuation, Equity Offerings, Private Equity, Growth Equity, Equity Capital, Business Advisory, Capital Budgeting, Budgeting, Broker Setup, Investment Briefs, M&A Reporting, Market Research, Debt Restructuring, Equity Research Analysis, Stock Trading, Expense Reduction, Wealth Management, Cost Management, Cash Management, Financial Management
Regional Senior Vice President
2005 - 2007
Naeem Holding
- Headed private equity activities of GCC team in Egypt and North Africa with total of $2 billion in assets under management.
- Managed direct investments of the firm and the firm’s clients, including a 20% share in one of the region's biggest oil refineries.
- Structured and engineered financial deals from a buy-side perspective aimed at generated the highest returns possible.
- Set up and implemented the strategic plan at the holding level through membership in the executive management committee of the holding firm.
- Analyzed capital structure of firms in order to understand optimum capital structures and reaching such structures through diverse financial structures and deals.
Focus areas: Private Equity, Fund Structure, Capital Raising, Equity Raises, Valuation, Debt Raises, Debt Structuring, Convertible Debt, Debt Restructuring, Venture Funding, Early-stage Venture Capital, M&A (Buy-side)
Senior Analyst
2004 - 2005
CIB Bank (Chase in Egypt)
- Utilized different market analysis tools to strategically analyze the Bank’s market competitiveness, with the aim to increase the bank's market share and pocket share. Recommended strategies led to a 10% increase in the bank's market share.
- Monitored the bank's daily, weekly, monthly, and annual positions across the different financial markets to successfully keep the Bank’s exposure to market risk within the set limit.
- Assisted in constructing 5-year and 20-year strategic business plans and financial models for the entire Bank with clear segmentation by business lines.
- Constructed a financial model measuring risk, used by the bank for five years instead of purchasing a ready-made program for USD $10 million and annual fees of USD $0.5 million.
Focus areas: Strategic Planning, Risk Models, Risk Analysis, FX Risk Analysis, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Country Risk, Third-party Risk, Market Research, Market Models, Market Opportunity Analysis, Money Market, Market Prioritization
