Mustafa Abdel-Wadood is a Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Abraaj Capital. As CEO of Abraaj Investment Management, he oversees the company’s investment activity across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA). Before Abraaj, Mr. Abdel-Wadood was at Egyptian investment bank EFG-Hermes as CEO, UAE. Mr. Abdel-Wadood is on the boards of several companies including Air Arabia, JorAMCo and Pakistan’s BMA Capital. Mr. Abdel-Wadood holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Mr. Malik is Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice Chairman and one of the founding partners of BMA Capital. Mr. Malik has over 22 years experience of business in the UK, Middle East and in Pakistan’s financial markets and has been a member of BMA’s Executive Management Committee. He has been responsible for building two core businesses for BMA, namely Corporate Finance and BMA Trade, the firm’s nationwide retail equity business. Mr. Malik’s advisory experience includes the first ever privatisation in Pakistan’s capital markets, and advising Pakistan’s Ministry of Science & Technology on the deregulation of the telecom sector, which ultimately led to explosive growth in Pakistan.

Mr. Malik has a Masters in Management from MIT Sloan School, Cambridge, USA, and a B.Sc in Electronics from University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.

Mr. Mazhar Malik has over 50 years of experience in infrastructure, project design and management, and real estate in Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe. He is one of the Founding partners of BMA Capital. Most recently he has been the President of The Engineering Consultancy headquartered in London, a which undertakes large scale housing and Civil Engineering development projects in the Middle East and Europe. Mr. Malik holds a Master’s in Structural Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Hons.)

Mr. Salim Khan has been instrumental in helping to re-engineer BMA. Mr. Khan has been with BMA since 2004, establishing the Human Resources department and many of the Group’s support departments, as well as contributing to BMA’s overall strategic direction. He has over 25 years experience in corporate human resources and HR and strategy consulting. He holds Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Abdul Sattar Raja joined BMA Capital Management Limited in 1992 as Settlement Manager. He has extensive knowledge and understanding of settlements with Karachi Stock Exchange (G) Limited and National Clearing Company of Pakistan Limited. He has played a vital role over the years in the growth of BMA Equities. In his 18 years of work at BMA he has shown his expertise in the area of pre-settlements, settlements monitoring & post settlement activities.

Presently he is working in BMA Capital Management Limited as Director and Head of Settlement.

Mr. Omar Lodhi joined Abraaj in 2005 and has 16 years of private equity and investment banking experience gained in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. At Abraaj, Mr. Lodhi headed on one of three investment management teams responsible for deal sourcing, execution and post acquisition management of partner companies.  Mr. Lodhi’s geographical focus spanned primarily Turkey and the GCC targeting a range of sectors including oil and gas, education, food and agriculture and industrials. Mr. Lodhi has Bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics in International Trade and Development, and is an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Matteo Stefanel brings over 12 years of private equity and investment banking experience to the investment team at Abraaj, which he developed through more than 60 M&A transactions in Europe, the US and Middle East. Prior to joining Abraaj, Matteo Stefanel was with Marfin Investment Group where he was the Chairman of the Recommending Investment Committee. He was previously a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank. Mr. Stefanel is a graduate of Oxford University with an Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA Hons).

Mr. Ahmed Badreldin has over 12 years experience in investment banking, finance and consulting. Prior to joining Abraaj, he was a Senior Director in Leveraged Finance at Barclays Capital in London. Ahmed Badreldin holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Management and Business Administration from the American University in Cairo and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management in the UK.

Aziz Moolji has more than nine years experience in investment banking, primarily in New York. At Abraaj he is responsible for deal origination, structuring and execution, and portfolio management. Before joining Abraaj he was a Vice President with Merrill Lynch & Co. in the Financial Sponsors Group in New York with joint coverage and execution responsibility for leading private equity firms and hedge funds, including KKR, Harbinger, New Mountain Capital and Oaktree Capital.
Previously he was a senior associate at Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group in New York where his responsibilities included origination and execution of corporate M&A transactions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Moolji has been involved in the execution of more than 25 transactions, including sellside M&A, buyside M&A, equity offerings, and bank and bond financings. Mr. Moolji holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Wharton School and dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.