AMWAL CAPITAL PARTNERS A leading independent firm specializing in alternative investments across the MENA region.

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Our Strengths That Define Amwal Capital Partners

The Power of Partnership: Meet the Team Driving Amwal Capital Partners

CMA & DFSA License
10+ Years in the region
100% investment team owned
Investment Team with Deep Regional Roots
Over USD 2.5 BN in AUMs

At ACP, our foundation is built on a solid understanding of the MENA region, where our indigenous team has been intricately involved for years. With presence across key financial markets in Riyadh and Dubai. Our team stands as a pillar of expertise, ensuring our investors benefit from both our knowledge and local insights.

our leadership members

A Team Rooted in the Region, Invested in Success

At Amwal Capital Partners, expertise isn’t just acquired—it’s ingrained. With deep roots in the MENA region, our team isn’t merely operating in these markets; we’ve been shaping them for years. From the financial nerve centers of Dubai and Riyadh, we bring an intimate understanding of local dynamics, ensuring that every investment is informed by on-the-ground insight and global perspective. More than just professionals, we are navigators of complexity, offering our investors not only knowledge but a strategic advantage in an ever-evolving landscape.

Ammar AlKhudairy

Chairman / Founding Partner

Fadi Arbid

CIO / Founding Partner

Samer Sarraf

SEO & COO / Founding Partner

Imad Chukrallah

Equities Fund Manager / Founding Partner
Our Broader Team

Depth Beyond Leadership

Every strategy at Amwal Capital Partners is driven by a team of sharp minds – analysts and specialists whose discipline, commitment, and deep regional expertise drive our consistent performance.

Ryad Abi Fadel

Investment Director / Partner

Samer Darwiche

Investment Director / Partner

Sharif Eid

Co Head of Fixed Income / Partner

Zeina Rizk

Co Head of Fixed Income / Partner

Iman Dawoud

Analyst

Phillipe Bou Nader

Analyst

Mohsin AlJeshi

Analyst

Karim El Chammas

Head of Trading - Equities

Aida Talaat

Director of Investor Relations

Yousef Al Oraifi

Director of Capital Raising and Client Relations

Harshada Pawate

Head of Finance and Operations
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Ammar AlKhudairy

Chairman / Founding Partner

Biography

Ammar is the Chairman and co-founder of Amwal Capital Partners. In 2004, prior to co-founding Amwal Capital Partners he founded Amwal AlKhaleej, the first private equity firm based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has served as  the Chairman of Saudi National Bank until March 2023 following the merger of Samba Financial Group and National Commercial Bank, before the merger he served as the Chairman of Samba Financial Group since January 2019. 

Prior to Samba, Ammar played key leadership roles in various Saudi financial institutions such as Riyad Bank, United Saudi Bank, and Banque Saudi Fransi. Ammar has also served in various public and private board memberships, including Chairmanship of Goldman Sachs Saudi Arabia, Chairmanship of Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia, SAVOLA, Kingdom Holdings, Herfy, Al Tayyar, Chairmanship of Allianz Saudi Arabia, Deputy Chairman of SPIMACO, and board member of Almarai. He also served as director in Saudi government related entities, including the Economic Cities Authority.

Ammar earned both his Master’s degree in Engineering Administration and his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from The George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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Fadi Arbid

CIO / Founding Partner 

Biography

Fadi is a Founding Partner and CIO of Amwal Capital Partners based in Riyadh. 

Prior to co-founding Amwal Capital Partners, Fadi was a Founding Partner / CEO of Amwal AlKhaleej, a leading MENA private equity firm. Earlier in his career, Fadi held various consulting, banking, and corporate positions working as an Engagement Manager at Booz Allen Hamilton in Europe and the Middle East, as an Associate at Citigroup’s Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in the Investment Banking division in London, and as a Brand Manager for German Multinational Company Henkel in Paris.

Fadi serves on the boards and committees of several private companies and public funds across the region including the Wharton School Global Executive Board, and is a YPO member, Riyadh Chapter. 

Fadi holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Masters degree from the Lancaster University Management School, and Nantes Graduate School of Management. 

Fadi is fluent in English, French, Arabic and Italian, and has basic knowledge of Spanish.

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Samer Sarraf

SEO & COO / Founding Partner 

Biography

Samer is a Founding Partner, SEO and COO of Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai. 

Prior to co-founding Amwal Capital Partners, Samer joined Amwal AlKhaleej in 2008 where he was a Partner and UAE Country Head in the Dubai office. He joined Amwal AlKhaleej in 2008. Prior to that, Samer was a Senior Associate at Lehman Brothers, based in its London office as part of the Investment Banking Natural Resources Group M&A team.  Earlier in his career at Lehman, Samer was part of its Global Real Estate Group, where he led teams in the origination and analysis of commercial real estate loans, as well as structuring of commercial mortgage backed securities, structuring over $2billion of CMBS.  Prior to joining Lehman, Samer had four years of experience in construction management with Bouygues Batiment in France and Tahiti. 

Samer also serves on a number of boards of private companies in Jordan and the UAE, including serving on the investment committee of the Lester B. Pearson College Endowment (Canada). 

Samer holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, double majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and he has a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from McGill University, majoring in Structural Engineering. Samer is a member of YPO Dubai chapter. 

Samer is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

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Imad Chukrallah

Equities Fund Manager / Founding Partner

Biography

Imad is a Founding Partner and Fund Manager of Amwal Capital Partners.

Prior to launching Amwal Capital Partners, Imad was a project manager with McKinsey & Company based out of their Dubai office from 2008 onwards where he led projects across multiple sectors including retail, mining, pharmaceutical, banking, family businesses, infrastructure and others. His work spanned across the MENA region with a special focus on Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Kuwait. He worked on topics ranging from strategy to operations and corporate finance. Imad has also previously worked in the construction and manufacturing sectors. 

Imad also serves on the board of HyperPay, a leading fintech and online digital payments player (Saudi Arabia). 

Imad holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurship Management. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the American University of Beirut where he graduated with Distinction. Imad is fluent in English and Arabic and has basic knowledge of French and Spanish.

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Zeina Rizk

Co Head of Fixed Income / Partner

Biography

Zeina joined Amwal Capital Partners in January 2024 as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Partner based in Dubai.

Prior to joining Amwal, Zeina was a portfolio manager for Arqaam Capital. She was co-managing Arqaam High Income Fund, Arqaam Islamic Income Fund, Arqaam Income Generation Fund, Arqaam Islamic Income Generation Fund and several Global Emerging Markets Conventional and Global Sukuk discretionary mandates for institutional accounts. 

Zeina has over 15 years of experience in financial services, a 13-year track record co-managing Global Credit Funds, and a 10-year track record co-managing Shariah Global Credit funds. Prior to joining Arqaam, Zeina was part of the management team of a global fixed income fund domiciled in Luxembourg and worked as a fixed income advisor to the Private Banking Team. Previously, Zeina held a position as a credit and market risk supervisor and worked in the securitization part of the structuring team for asset-backed securitization deals. Zeina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance and has been a CFA Charterholder since 2011.

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Sharif Eid

Co-head of Fixed Income / Partner

Biography

Sharif joined Amwal Capital Partners in January 2024 as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Partner based in Dubai and Riyadh. 

Prior to joining Amwal, Sharif was a portfolio manager for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He was responsible for co-managing FTST Franklin Sukuk Fund, FTIF Franklin Gulf Wealth Bond Fund, MENA Fixed Income and Global Sukuk mandates and institutional accounts, as well as trading within the team. He was also an investment committee member of regional private credit and was the lead on all the team’s transactions since 2016. 

Sharif has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry starting at TD Securities in Toronto. Sharif joined Franklin Templeton in 2009 as a research analyst where he helped develop the group’s fundamental research process and production before becoming a portfolio manager in 2011. Sharif holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in industrial engineering and a Master of Mathematical Finance  from the University of Toronto.

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Philippe Bou Nader

Analyst 

Biography

Philippe is a Legal and Credit Analyst at Amwal Capital Partners based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he joined in 2024.

Philippe was a senior investigations and compliance consultant at Forward Global, a Paris-headquartered risk management group where he supported leading international law firms in commercial litigations, conducting complex asset recovery ,fraud and corruption investigations. His work also consisted of supporting publicly owned companies fend off short sellers by conducting independent reviews and verification of adverse allegations and suggesting mitigating measures.

Prior to that, he worked at Kroll’s Dubai and Paris offices, specializing in origin/sources of wealth due diligences conducted for Western banks and in internal fraud investigations. His relevant case experience includes a 6 months-long on-site project at a local Saudi bank to investigate fraudulently generated non-performing loans.

Philippe holds a  Bachelor’s degree and Masters in Law from Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Lebanon), a Masters in law from University Panthéon-Assas in Paris (France), and an LLM in American law from UC Hastings – College of Law from San Francisco (United States). He obtained his PhD in International Law from the University Panthéon-Assas in 2025. He is fluent in Arabic, French and English.

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Aida Talaat

Director of Investor Relations 

Biography

Aida is the Director of Investor Relations at Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai, where she joined in April 2022.

Aida joined Amwal with over 12 years of experience in investments, wealth management and banking services. Aida worked with GTN Financial services as a Product specialist advising clients on mutual funds and was responsible for enhancing the fund proposition and product management generating new business. She previously worked with Al Mal Capital asset management team as a senior product specialist to add diverse solutions to the wealth management range of products and raising capital for the funds. Prior to that, Aida worked in corporate banking with Invest Bank and HSBC Bank.

Aida holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Ain Shams University, Egypt and an International Certificate in Advanced Wealth Management: Applied Financial Advice and Management from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments for level 3 & 4.

She is fluent in English and Arabic.

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Yousef Al Oraifi

Director of Capital Raising and Client Relations

Biography

Yousef AlOraifi is the Director of Capital Raising and Client Relations at Amwal Capital Partners based in Riyadh, where he joined in 2024. 

Yousef has established a distinguished career in finance with over 12 years of comprehensive experience in the financial sector, including corporate and investment banking, as well as wealth management. Yousef has established a distinguished career in finance. He previously served as Senior Relationship Manager at SABB Bank, where he managed corporate relationships with multi-billion corporations, led a significant financing portfolio, and developed account plans to meet client needs. At SNB Capital, he served as Vice President of Private Wealth Management, specializing in tailored financial strategies for ultra-high-net-worth clients and offering investment solutions across alternative investments, public equity, fixed income, and multi-asset funds.

Yousef holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting & Finance from the University of Plymouth and is CME1 certified. He is fluent in both English and Arabic.

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Harshada Pawate

Head of Finance and Operations

Biography

Harshada is a Head of Finance and Operations at Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai, where she joined in May 2015. She is also DFSA Authorized Finance officer at Amwal.

 Harshada is Finance Professional with experience of 18+ years in portfolio valuations and possess adequate managerial accounting experience, extensive ability in analyzing costs, processes, variances and interpret them. She previously worked with Apex Fund Services (Dubai) Ltd for 5.5 year as Fund Account Manager, she has experience of managing various types of funds including Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Partnerships, Multi-Series and Fund of Fund. She  has served as primary contact of Investment Managers and has sound knowledge of local laws, and federal policies and procedures of Dubai – UAE.

 Harshada has graduated with a Bachelor’s in Commerce with Distinction from the University of Mumbai, India. She is also a Qualified Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

 She is fluent in English and Hindi.

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Ryad Abi Fadel

Investment Director

Biography

Ryad is an Investment Director with Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai, where he joined in 2015.

Previously, Ryad worked at BlomInvest (Blom Bank’s investment bank division) focusing on financial analysis and modeling for consumer goods companies and banks. Before that, Ryad worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the deals-advisory department focusing on due diligence and financial valuation projects in the MENA region across different sectors (including consumers, hospitality and banking). 

Ryad holds a Grande Ecole Master in Management (2-year program), with a specialization in finance from HEC and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB). Ryad graduated with high distinction from AUB and was placed on HEC Paris’ dean’s honor list. 

He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

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Samer Darwiche

Investment Director / Partner

Biography

Samer is an Investment Director with Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai, where he joined in 2019.

Previously, he worked as an Investment Associate at Abu Dhabi Financial Group (ADFG) in their activist MENA Equities strategy where he was involved in identifying distressed targets and formulating turnaround strategies. Prior to ADCM, Samer worked as an Analyst at R-Squared Capital Management, an International Equities ex-US focused firm in New York City. At R-Squared, Samer was responsible for stock selection the Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples and Energy Sectors for the fund. Samer also worked for the 6 years prior covering the MENA Public Equities markets out of Dubai.

Samer holds an MBA from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. At Cornell, he was the recipient of the Fried Fellowship for 2016 and an active member of the Cayuga Fund (the students’ run hedge fund). He graduated with a Bachelor in Business Administration with Distinction from the American University of Beirut (AUB). He also is a CFA and CAIA Charter holder.

He is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

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Iman Dawoud

Analyst 

Biography

Iman is an Investigative Analyst at Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai. Iman joined Amwal from global consulting firm, Kroll, where she was a Senior Manager in the Forensics, Investigations and Intelligence practice based in Dubai, UAE.

A certified fraud examiner and former consultant, investigator, and journalist, Iman provides an additional layer of thorough “boots-on-the-ground” non-financial diligence on Amwal’s stock picks focused on identifying major risks not only along ESG dimensions but also fraud, misconduct, and reputational matters. Alongside cross boarder investigations, Iman has focused on asset tracing and disputes consulting for boutique investigations firms as well as being part of the wider forensic investigations practice for one of the Big 4 consulting firms where she worked on a number of high profile multi-jurisdictional investigations. Iman has worked as a print journalist at an independent, Arabic language pan-Arab daily newspaper based in London and as reporter for Dow Jones International Newswires and the Wall Street Journal in London, UK, Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she covered equities and commodities, and major international events, including the London Olympics and the Arab League Summit.

Iman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. As part of her undergraduate degree Iman has studied at the University of Damascus, Syria and the University of Alexandria, Egypt. She is a native English speaker and has working Arabic proficiency and a basic knowledge of French.

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Mohsin AlJeshi

Analyst

Biography

Mohsin is an Analyst with Amwal Capital Partners based in Riyadh where he joined in 2023. 

Previously, he worked as Senior Investment Analyst at Anfal Corp Investment Company, the investment arm of Ali Zaid Al Quraishi and Brothers company, where he was working on identifying investment opportunities across Private Equity, Real Estate and Public Equity while also leading the Venture Capital program. Prior to Anfal Corp, Mohsin worked as a Market Analyst at Batteries Plus Bulbs in Wisconsin, USA, where he was responsible for detecting areas of revenue monetizing by intensive market research and analysis. 

Mohsin graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance with an Entrepreneurship certificate. He holds CME-1 and CME-5 certificates from the Capital Market Authority (CMA) in Saudi Arabia. He is fluent in English and Arabic.

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Karim El Chammas

Head of Trading – Equities

Biography

Karim is Head of Trading – Equities with Amwal Capital Partners based in Dubai, where he joined in 2021.

Previously, Karim worked at Vistra in the Private clients and Family offices division focusing on Succession Planning and Capital Markets for corporates. Prior to that, Karim worked at Mubasher Financial Services DIFC in the Institutional sales department focusing on institutional clients in the MENA region across different sectors. Karim also worked at FFA Private Bank Dubai as a member of the Capital Markets team where he served as a trader for HNWI, Corporates and Institutional Clients covering MENA and international Markets.

Karim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from the American University of Beirut (AUB).He is fluent in English, Arabic and has basic knowledge of French.