Tarek is a core leader of the firm’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice in the Middle East. He serves several leading sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors in the region on portfolio strategy, investment due diligence, operating-model design, and portfolio-performance improvement.
Tarek has supported investors transition into active owners by improving core investment and portfolio-review processes, designing their organizational structures, executing direct investments, and driving value creation in portfolio companies.
In addition to serving investors, Tarek has helped government agencies promote private-sector growth, particularly through the development of small and medium-size enterprises (SME)s by defining national private-sector and SME-enablement strategies and by executing government-backed company scale-up programs.