Rahul Vaish, Caia Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai

Founder & Managing PartnerACP was founded with the mission to support entrepreneurs in scaling their businesses across the Middle East & Africa. This includes through market entry, capital raising, partnerships, sales support and more. To date, we have raised over $20M in capital.Over the last 3 years, we have built a network of over 200 institutional investors who have actively worked on, invested in or reviewed our opportunities across the Middle East & Africa. Opportunities include early-stage direct deals, PE/VC and Credit funds, Real Estate Funds, Direct Infrastructure, Pre-IPO & Precious Metals.Key highlights include - Raising $15M for South Africa-based BoxCommerce as well as facilitating their CEEMEA partnership with MasterCard and entry into Nigeria - Raising Uqudo’s $2m seed round before joining their business and scaling them across 11 countries - Supporting market entry for South Africa-based Wizzit Digital into Nigeria - Raising $1m for a syndicate on Kraken for first-time pre-IPO investors

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Working closely with Aquanow's international team to support their growth and expansion into MEA.

Mentor & advisor to incredible startups participating in the Blossom Accelerator.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Spearheading the development of the foundational sales infrastructure of TSLC’s MEA-focused, B2B lend-tech business “Kee Platforms”.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Established Uqudo’s Business Development team, enabling scalability beyond the UAE, leading to a growth in valuation from $15M to $40M, and taking Uqudo from 1 country into 12 countries.Improved deal origination and closure, supported the establishment of Marketing and Account Management functions, implemented operational excellence, training of new hires, and project management.Generated $15m in pipeline (80 live deals) and closed $8M of contract value in 18 months (20 deals). Originated and signed Uqudo’s first clients in Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Nigeria, Uganda and Turkey whilst managing the close of the first client in Rwanda. This involved providing localized support, delivery and product, and ensuring approval from regulators.Worked directly with Uqudo’s Operations Team to deliver and establish a fully-fledged Marketing and inbound/outbound origination function that generated 6 figures in closed contract value within the first 3 months. As part of this, changed the entire presale’s structure to deliver efficiencies in the customer onboarding process.Often worked in a Project Management function between Uqudo’s BD and Technical teams, building a deep understanding of our technical architecture, customer requirements, and therefore supporting the development of our product roadmap.Responsible for the training of all BD hires, including two interns that successfully graduated into junior sales roles.Responsible for guiding the Uqudo Marketing Team in the creation, renewal and build out of all marketing collateral.Worked directly with Uqudo’s Accounting team on all sales tracking and reporting, inclusive of Investor and Board reports.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsible for building and growing the Delio brand and network across the Middle East, with a core focus on the GCC. This involved establishing strong relationships with top banks across Wealth & Asset Management, Investment Banking and Digital/Strategy, as well as with PE/VC funds, angel networks & multi-family offices.Other responsibilities involved creating & executing strategies tailored for each country, business development, building brand awareness through effective marketing and navigating multiple regulatory frameworks.Responsible for all lead generation, relationship development, platform demonstrations, proposal & RFP development as well as coordinating efforts on a global scale for enterprise banking engagements. Led the firm to their first regional 6-figure Enterprise sale and worked toward onboarding 5 different early-stage institutional investors as part of a “covid-campaign”.Developed an exceptional understanding of the different business landscapes across the GCC from a private equity, credit & fintech viewpoint, developing partnerships & relationships with organizations such as Bahrain Fintech Bay, the DIFC, CAIA Association, Magnitt & Fintech Saudi.Organized, hosted and presented at digital regional events focusing on private investments, impact investing & ethical finance as well as writing publicly on PE secondaries and the benefits of working in the start-up ecosystem.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsible for managing and growing the strategic businesses across Kuwait and Oman, both of which were undergoing considerable financial & regulatory change and digitalization.Responsible for driving circa. $1,000,000 in new & upsold revenue across both countries and all products in 12 months. Worked with the major banks, regulators, exchanges and Central Banks of both countries on projects for:- Enhancing primary and secondary bond markets- Improving Treasury flows and connectivityEnabling digitisation for local Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds, along with being the PoC for all Private Equity and Portfolio Management projects.

United Arab Emirates

Account manager for the UAE buy-side, proactively worked alongside C-Suite to stay ahead of how the business landscape is changing, how clients may be evolving, and to assess projects the team could run to deliver synergistic solutions.Part of a two-man team which drove over $2,000,000 in new revenue across an 18-month period.Responsible for identifying enterprise projects across the buyside ecosystem by working closely with all levels of institutions to identify pain points and deliverable enhancements. Within the Bloomberg environment, this often involved working cross-functionally as terminal sales, OMS sales & data solutions sale.

London, United Kingdom

Worked within the global leadership team to provide support across the department for managers and team leaders; giving real time analysis on departmental and team performance, as well as dynamic ideas for development.

Finsbury Square

Building relationships throughout the front and back office of Sell Side and Buy Side clients, providing tailored Equity/FX related solutions using Bloomberg Products, to minimize client inefficiencies and optimize performance.One of the first in the department to lead an implementation and displacement project on an international scale, and managed a new product initiative across the department, achieving the highest client adoption rate in EMEA.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Management, Upper Second Class Honours

Management, Business/Managerial Economics

Continued studying toward my UK degree in Malaysia whilst interacting with students and lecturers from around the world, making local.

A Levels: Mathematics (A), Economics (A), Chemistry (A)

Activities and Societies: Head Proctor Prefect