Dr. Nahed has extensive experience in the field of economic and financial analysis. Dr. Nahed has held senior positions both in academia and the private sector. In 2002, Dr. Nahed joined National Commercial Bank (NCB) as a Senior Strategic Economist and chaired the Portfolio Management Committee. Prior to joining NCB, she worked as a lecturer and later as the Head of the Accounting Unit  at King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah. From 1987 until 2002, Dr. Nahed acted as a  Financial Advisor to a number of Saudi companies. Dr. Nahed is also a known personality in the field of International Economics and has presented at numerous Global Economic forums around the world. She is a member of Saudi Economic Association, Center for Strategic Studies of Mekkah Emirate, Business Women Committee and the Eisenhower Fellowship-Saudi. Dr. Nahed earned Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, KSA. She holds a Master's in International Economics and PhD in Economics from Lancaster University, UK.

Ziyad Omar is a co-founder of Gulf One Investment Bank BSC (c). Previously Mr. Omar founded a Financial and Management Consulting firm in Saudi Arabia and a business advisory and consulting firm, Compass Consulting Company in Bahrain, which focussed on providing advisory services for large corporations throughout the GCC. This was born out of Mr Omar’s conviction of the need for and value of such services, arising from 20 years of regional and international finance and banking experience.

From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Omar worked at National Commercial Bank (NCB) in Saudi Arabia as Country Head of the Corporate Banking Group (CBG). During that time, his re-engineering of NCB’s multi-billion dollar corporate banking portfolio resulted in a significantly improved risk/reward profile. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Omar was CFO of Al Faisaliah Group, a top 20 Saudi company, where he created the Group Finance and Corporate Treasury.

From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Omar occupied senior positions at the Saudi American Bank in Jeddah in Corporate Banking and Structured Finance, where he co-pioneered the first securitisation transaction in Saudi Arabia. Between 1986 and 1990, Mr. Omar worked for Equitable Financial Companies in California, USA.

Mr. Omar received his MBA in August 1989 and a B.A. Mathematics - Computer Science in August 1984, from California State University, Fresno, California, USA.

Brian Little is both the head of Gulf One’s Infrastructure Division and CEO of the team of specialised infrastructure investment professionals responsible for managing the acquisition, management and realisation of investments by the Gulf One’s flagship investment fund, the Gulf One Tharawat Infrastructure Fund L.P.

In a career of over 25 years with leading firms including Citigroup and JPMorganChase Brian is a recognised senior practitioner of emerging markets infrastructure development and structured finance with specialties in equity advisory, structuring, restructuring and management. During his extensive career Brian has been involved in numerous groundbreaking emerging market capacity expansion infrastructure projects in the power, energy, transportation, mining, communications, water and social infrastructure sectors and has direct experience of several complete economic cycles and their related effects on infrastructure investments and their stakeholders including equity owners, debt providers, project partners, host public sectors and consumers. During his career Brian has also managed a number of successful business units at both the regional and global level.

With extensive and close ties with a number of leading infrastructure participants spanning domestic and international industry developers, debt and equity providers and leading multi and bi-lateral financial and policy institutions Brian has been the recipient of over 30 industry awards on an individual or related team basis and is a recognised and noted speaker at industry and finance forums relating to emerging market infrastructure. Brian holds a B. Econs. (Hons.) from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Patrick joined Gulf One Investment Bank in August 2006, bringing on-board over a decade of financial advisory, structuring, lending and closing of big-ticket project finance transactions in the UK, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and other GCC countries. As head of the bank’s advisory division, he is responsible for originating, structuring, executing and closing of all the bank’s project and corporate finance advisory business. Patrick’s project financing career commenced at London Underground Limited’s (“LUL”) project finance advisory group as an executive member of the deal-team developing complex financial models, business cases and financing options where he advised and negotiated on various projects being implemented utilizing the UK Government’s Private Finance Initiative (“PFI”) at that time.

His career further developed at the London branch of Bayerische Landesbank’s (“BLB”) structured finance group where he undertook various project finance (PFI / BOT / PPP) duties, and subsequently as Assistant Manager, Project & Trade Finance, GCC Group at Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (“APICORP”) Saudi Arabia where he was actively involved in a varied number of power, petrochemical, oil & gas and shipping transactions both in the execution, advisory, lending and syndication of facilities. Prior to joining Gulf One, Patrick was a senior banker at The National Commercial Bank (“NCB”) Saudi Arabia where he was responsible for developing and managing the bank’s project finance advisory and lending business, and most notably was actively engaged in advising the Saudi Government (i.e. Saudi Railways Organization) on their two major railway expansion projects, i.e. Saudi Landbridge and Makkah Madinah Rail Link. Patrick is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (“ACIB”) London, holds a Masters of Finance & Investment from South Bank University London and an MBA from Middlesex University Business School, London.

Dean is the CRO and has previously worked with the National Commercial Bank as the Head of Operational Risk and Basel II, Barclays Bank PLC London as Head of Group Risk, Westpac Bank in Australia as Head of Risk, Global Treasury, as well as Head of Credit. He also has over 10 years experience with Citibank, Australia and Asia Pacific and has previously worked with Lloyds Bank in Australia. Dean has a Bachelors degree in Commerce from the University of New South Wales, and a postgraduate degree in finance from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants, a Fellow of the Taxation and Management Accountants of Australia, a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and an Fellow of Financial Securities Institute of Australia.