A proven Leader and family office Executive with over 18 years of experience gained in a variety of roles in all aspects of direct investments across different sectors, within the Middle East, Europe, Africa and South Asia.Thrives in challenging and complex environments and adapts seamlessly to new cultural surroundings, thanks to extensive cross-continental work experience, and multi cultural adaptability. Accustomed to working closely with Executive and Board members, and capable of forging robust relationships at this level and beyond.Strategic, practical and proven; combines commercial and analytical skills with a deep cross border knowledge and experience of dealing with different cultures, to Strategically impact the businesses he is involved with to deliver long term sustainable value creation for shareholders.European based Family office set up from inception, to creating investment strategies to capital deployment, analysis and restructuring of portfolio companies. Deployment of capital into direct investments across Europe & USA, Deal Sourcing, Board Presentation, Due Diligence and Co-investing.Built, hired and led teams across the Middle East and Africa with a strategic focus on expanding into challenging, interesting Growth Markets.Specialist skills include:- Deal origination, Due Diligence, mergers and acquisitions- Structuring, Documenting and fund raising- Business plans and feasibility studies- Market entry strategy and supply and demand analysis - Corporate strategy and implementation - Experienced Board member- Relationship management at the Principal, HNW and C-suite level- Portfolio management and cross-selling through extensive global network- Leading multi-cultural teams on developing and implementing business strategy- Complex strategic selling to board executivesRecent Projects: Cross Border business expansion into 4 new geographies, Fund Raising for portfolios companies, Business Growth Strategy creation and implementation, M&A of regional healthcare business.Proven skills:Developing and Implementing high quality Business Growth Strategies that are fully aligned and focused on delivering corporate objectives, Portfolio Management, fund raising for new business ventures, Cross border M&ADeveloping and maintaining high level strategic relationships at the HNW, UBO, C-suite level: Experienced Board member Involved in analysis, strategy and leading board committees.Developed and managed people: growing and managing diverse teams and up-skilling them to play roles in revenue generation.