About Amlak: Amlak Finance is a specialized non-banking finance corporation based in Dubai and focusing on real estate financing. Amlak is regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE and listed on the Dubai Financial Markets.The Head of the Strategy and Organizational Development position, reporting to the CEO, encompasses Strategy Formulation and Monitoring, Innovation and Excellence and Project Management Office. Key responsibilities involve: - Formulating the Company’s five year forward looking business plan and charting future growth and sustainability of the Company. - Development of Corporate and Departmental strategies to ensure achievement of the business plan.- Reviewing strategies on a regular basis to ensure the required objectives are achieved and charting new course if desired impact is not achieved.- Developing Corporate and Departmental Key Performance Indicators together with the targets to be achieved against them.- Driving performance by regular interactions at all levels in various departments ensuring execution of Departmental strategies.- Interacting with the Board of Directors and the C level management on a regular basis to appraise them on strategic initiatives and present strategies required to achieve Corporate objectives. - Heading the Project Management Office ensuring all Strategic Projects and initiatives are timely completed - Building a culture of continuous improvement with function in order to reduce turnaround times, cost and waste and improve service across the organization. - Idea generation and development of new products and portfolio management strategies for capturing new segments and increasing returns. Key achievements include: - Development of a restructuring plan and financial model for the financial facilities of the Company to ensure a sustainable capital structure is achieved. - Reducing turnaround times in various front office departments in the Company to improve service to clients and customers.

About Essdar:Essdar is an boutique investment banking firm specializing in advisory in the capital markets. Essdar provides advisory services especially strategic capital structures, M&A, restructuring and refinancing strategies to clients mainly governments and government linked entities, large conglomerates, high net worth individuals and supra-national entities. Reponsiblities include:- Business development, origination, execution and client relation management. - Managing internal and external teams to ensure efficient and effective execution of mandates. - Negotiating commercial terms with counterparties on behalf of clients. As Partner and part of the senior management team, actively involved in developing strategic plans for the firm, identifying growth areas and implementing growth strategies. Additionally, involved in day to day operations of the firm including hiring and allocation, performance assessment, training, cash flow management, risk assessment and compliance.Key Transactions:⇨ Financing of US$ 200 million acquisition financing in the US for a steel major based in India and the UAE. ⇨ Setup a fully funded and deployed investment strategy in 2010 from scratch in excess of USD 450 million for GCC distressed debt. Negotiated acquisition of over US$ 650 million of distressed assets at a deep discount. Successfully restructured the assets, which were fully disposed within 1 year. ⇨ USD 200 million receivables monetization program for a supra-national entity in the Gulf. ⇨ Advised on restructuring strategies to GCC Government and a GCC Central Bank for restructuring of the financial services sector in the country in general and “good bank, bad bank” setup in particular for certain financial institutions.⇨ Advised and assisted a GCC Government in obtaining international debt ratings.

About ENSEC:ENSEC was set up as part of the Dubai World group with a mandate to facilitate the growth of the debt capital markets as a whole in Dubai and the Gulf Region especially structured finance. ENSEC's key shareholders are Istithmar World (the investment arm of Dubai World group) and Dubai Islamic Bank (a pioneer in Islamic banking). As Vice President - Structuring, was the Lead Transactor for the advisory and structuring mandates of the firm reporting to Head of Structuring. Worked closely with the senior management in preparing strategies for efficient and effective execution of mandates.As Lead Transactor, key responsibilities included:⇨ Managing all internal and external teams involved in transactions;⇨ Reviewing and negotiating commercial term sheets;⇨ Reviewing legal documentation and contracts in relation to transactions;⇨ Advising clients on various financial, commercial and legal aspects of transactions; and⇨ Preparing cash flow and financial models and stress testing cash flows.Key Transactions:⇨ Structured and placed an Islamic compliant inaugural mortgage transaction worth USD 210 Million for a major home finance provider in the UAE. The transaction was the first rated RMBS in the whole of Middle East and the first ever Islamic RMBS transaction in the world. During the financial crises starting mid 2007, the transaction maintained its rating and was also upgraded. ⇨ A USD 4 billion utility receivable securitization programs for a government entity in Dubai was spearheaded by me which was the first future flow securitization out of the UAE and achieved very low credit spreads.⇨ Advised a major non-banking financial institution on setting up their short and medium term funding program in addition to providing specific advisory on corporate bonds and convertible bonds issuance programs of AED 3 billion.

As a team leaders in the centralized Corporate Finance Departments was responsible for managing the group payables team of over 10 professionals for over 100 companies forming part of the group. Also responsible for developing, reengineering and implementing business processes. Managed disbursements for all group entities which amounted to over AED 10 billion p.a. Part of the core team reengineering business processes and re-implementation of Oracle E Business Suite across the Group.

Responsibilities included managing and leading teams in various assurance and business advisory and corporate finance engagements. Various assignments performed include: ⇨ Detailed market research on Islamic banking in the UAE. ⇨ Business valuations, feasibility studies and business plans ⇨ Due diligence exercises, agreed-upon procedures and internal audit assignments. ⇨“Operational due diligence’’ for a major conglomerate in the UAE. ⇨Advising on merger of business segments of two major business groups in the UAE. ⇨ Managed various financial institution audits

Executing and managing assurance and business advisory assignments mainly in the financial services, banking, manufacturing and trading sectors. Key clients included Citibank and Bank of Sharjah.

Managing and leading large audits and special assignments and maintaining client relationships in the financial serves, banking, investment, pharmaceuticals and automotive sectors.