Mr. Mohammed Al-Hassan is co-founder co-CEO, GCC and director of Gulf Islamic Investments. Mohammed has over 12 years of experience in Islamic Investment Banking across the GCC region. His investment expertise spans across several verticals, including Private Equity, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Mr. Al-Hassan is an extremely well-networked individual with close ties to family offices, and government and executive circles, including prominent members of the corporate, banking, financial institutions, and sovereign funds community in the GCC region. In addition to the GII board, he sits on the board of various companies, including International Foods Corporation, Limited, and More / Intelligent Foods, Inc. Since founding Gulf Islamic Investments, Mohammed developed leading sharia compliant investment company with a diversified investment strategy and investment portfolio. Mohammed leads all aspects of the Company’s strategy and operations, with a specific emphasis on new business development, shareholders and investors relations, in addition to the Company’s Islamic private banking initiative. Mohammed’s leadership in building a loyal group of investors from reputable private and institutional groups has resulted in nearly half a billion dollars of capital mobilized to fund GII’s investments since mid-2014.
Prior to founding GII, Mr. Al-Hassan held the position of Vice President of Investments with EJ Capital. Prior to that he worked as a Team Leader (Director – Investment Placement, KSA & Kuwait) in Gulf Finance House where he played a stellar role in raising several hundred millions of dollars of capital for various investment opportunities. His domain strengths include: strategic management, structuring investment opportunities, investment management, merger and acquisitions, deal sourcing, capital raising, and advising high net worth individuals. Previously, he was also the Board Member of Energy City Mumbai and Board Member of Al-Areen Holding. Mr. Al-Hassan holds a Business Administration degree, specializing in Marketing, from NYIT, Bahrain.