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Hemant Jain - Founder and CEO
The firm has been founded by Hemant Jain, who most recently set up and managed India offices of a business intelligence firm where he hired, trained and led a staff of 90 people. The India centre was responsible of managing proprietary business intelligence databases of top global investment banks and delivered several business intelligence reports to clients who include COOs, Business Managers and Head of Strategy at these banks. Prior to that, Hemant worked at Morgan Stanley’s securitization division in London as Associate. Hemant holds an MBA from the HEC School of Management, Paris and an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also worked with Schlumberger Industries at their Paris office before his MBA and speaks French.
Tarek Walid Tawfik - Investor and Non-Executive Director
Tarek is an Investor and a Non-Executive Director at Axience. Tarek has several years of experience in the financial services industry, with expertise in wealth management, investment management and treasury. He was the Head of Private Wealth Management at Deutsche Bank in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and managed a portfolio of ultra high net worth clients. Earlier, he worked as the Family Investment Manager for the Abdul Rahman Saad Al-Rashid (ARTAR) Group from 2000 to 2007; and also in the brokerage division and on Corporate Treasury desk of the Banque Saudi Fransi.
Tarek is a Bachelor of Arts in Financial Management, from the King Saudi University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and is fluent in Arabic, English and German.
Alex Carre de Malberg - Non-Executive Director
Alex is a Non-Executive Director at Axience and helps Axience in advisory capacity.
He is the Head of Investment and Merchant Banking at Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ). Prior to CBQ, Alex was a Senior Advisor to The National Investor (TNI) in Abu Dhabi; Head of Investment Banking at InvestAD and a Managing Director at Rothschild in Middle East and France where he worked for over a decade. He has also worked Mergers and Aquisitions at Lazard Freres (New York), Peregrine Capital (Hong Kong) & Equinox Capital (Singapore). Alex holds a French engineering degree, M.Sc. from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from HEC-ISA where he also teaches M&A from time to time.
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