• Founded registered investment advisory firm focused on public equities in Africa and MENA targeted toward institutional investors. Lead PM of benchmark agnostic, high conviction strategy with focus on stock selection.• Designed bottom-up research process with explicit handling of currency risk and exantesource of expected returns. Focus on generating alpha by taking long-term views on businesses with structural growth.• Implemented operational and regulatory structure including dealing with custodian, administrator, auditor, and formulated compliance manual, code of ethics, business continuity and privacy policies.• Actively marketed strategies to 150+ prospective partners and authored quarterly investment letters.

• Lead PM of the $390mn Africa fund (45 companies, 14 countries). Focused on stock selection, position sizing, and cash management across five share classes.• Built proprietary financial models to determine fair value by focusing on establishing a picture of the strategy, growth and sustainable cash return profile.

• Generated investment ideas for three regional funds ($500mn AUM) following a fundamental bottom-up philosophy. Generated a 12-month average return of +3.9% in 2011, +14.6% in 2012 and +24.6% in 2013 across various products.• Built financial models with emphasis on forecasting key revenue drivers and margins. Valuation methodologies used included DCF, DDM, and residual income.

• Led team of analysts to provide research coverage on 36 Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) listed equities - initiations, quarterly earnings releases and macro overviews.• Initiated and maintained research coverage on 14 banks in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. Sell-side lead banking analyst covering the GCC region.

• Assigned trading limits based on analysis of secured and unsecured counterparty exposure risks for a $60 billion non-mortgage fixed income portfolio based on issuers’ profitability, asset quality, capital structure and liquidity.• Analyzed monthly performance data of 62 consumer ABS issuers and developed scorecard methodology to rank issuers based on performance of $13.6 billion of securitized credit card receivables and $3.1 billion of securitized auto receivables.

• Analyzed business initiatives, such as proposals for expansion of local and international locations, by constructing revenue and expense forecasts to facilitate strategy development and justify capital expenses. • Performed Net Present Value (NPV) analysis based on forecasted revenues, capital expenditures and operating costs. Responsible for presenting conclusions to Capital Advisory Board.

• Analyzed business operations and created financial models, including NPV/Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Lease-buy analysis, and Economic Value Added analysis.• Created Cost-to-Serve model to analyze customer profitability based on revenue growth, individual product margins, capital expenses, distribution, transportation and financing costs.• Co-led group to design and implement new annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes for wholesale operations (15 Distribution centers, $2 billion revenues).