Alternative Investment Management Summit 2019 | Aim Summit | 7 April 2019 | Four Season Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The Largest Conference for Alternative Investments in MENA Region, welcoming over 500 investors and investment managers overseeing over $10 trillion in Assets, including:
• Sovereign Wealth Funds
• Family Offices
• Hedge Funds
• Private Equity Managers
• Private Debt Managers
• Venture Capitalists
• Endowments
• Foundations
• Pension Funds
• Digital Asset and Blockchain Innovators, Investors and Disruptors

2019 Speakers

Christof Rühl
Advisory Board, Crystol Energy

Dr. Ryan Lemand
Senior Executive Officer, ADS Investment Solutions

Navin Gupta
Managing Director, South Asia & MENA, Ripple

Tariq Bin Hendi
EVP, Head of Products & Advisory, Emirates NBD

Henry Azzam
Director, MS Finance Program, American University of Beirut

Sabah al-Binali
CEO, Vice Chairman of the Board, Universal Strategy, The National Investor

Amy Bensted
Head of Data Products, Preqin

Dominique Lecocq
Managing Partner, Lecocqassociate

Zachary Cefaratti
Founder & CEO, Dalma Capital Management Limited

Stergios Voskopoulos
CEO, Kanoo Capital

Craig Roberts
Managing Director - MENA, Apex Fund Services

Daniel Schwartzkopff
CEO, Invictus Capital

Osama Alowedi
Co-Founder & CEO, Value Capital Partners

Sylvain Vieujot
Executive Deputy Chairman, Emirates REIT

James McCormack
Managing Director, Fitch Ratings

Kevin Dougherty
Director of Trading and Operations, Decentral Park Capital

Erik Sebusch
Global Strategy Leader Venture Capital, Mercer Investment Consulting

Yagub Rahimov
CEO and Founding Partner, 7marketz Inc.

Saber Farooqi
COO, Dalma Capital

Saeed Hareb Aldarmaki
Managing Director, Alphabit

Noel El Khoury
Portfolio Manager, ADS Investment Solutions

Ashish Marwah
CIO, ADS Investment Solutions

Dilip Massand
Managing Director, Phoenix Advisors

Dominic Longman
Chief Product Officer, Trustology

Philippe Germain
Director, ROI Securitisation

Dr. Christian Diller
Partner, Montana Capital Partners

David Gibson-Moore
President and CEO, Gulf Analytica

Javier Espinoza
Private Capital Correspondent, Financial Times

Emilio Escartin
Professor of Islamic Finance Asset Management & Private Equity, IE Business School

May Ben Khadra
Business Anchor, CNBC Arabia

Rachel Pether
Senior Advisor & Co-Host, Follow the Money, Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute

Christopher Weafer
Senior Partner, Macro-Advisory Limited

Luciano Jannelli
Head of Investement Strategy, ADCB Asset Management

Mohammad Alhajeri
Director, KISP Ventures

Dr. Michael Kianicka
Co-CIO, Kimura Capital

Patrick Oerer
CEO, Emirates Wealth

Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi
President, Future Trends Group

Simon Hopkins
CEO, Milltrust International

Sonia Gokhale
Partner, Venture Souq

Martin Cornish
Principal, U.K. Director, M.W. Cornish, The Hedge Funds Association

Tim Fox
Chief Economist & Head of Research, Emirates NBD

Walid Hanna
CEO, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Dr. Farah Spencer
Managing Partner, GADG, Inc

Dmitry Nazarov
CEO, Genesis Vision

Matthew Liepert
Managing Director, Antares Capital

James Fierro
CEO, ECO Capacity Exchange

Patrick Lowry
CEO & Managing Partner, Iconiq Holding

Ro Charlz
Vice President, Vickers Venture Partners

Hassan Jeraj
Partner, Serone Capital Management

Deborah Webster
Founder & CEO, AMANI Circle

Alexander Tkachenko
CEO and Founder, VNX Exchange

Nikola Stojanow
CBDO, aeternity

Yahya Jalil
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Pilothouse Capital Partners

Chatura Randeniya
Partner, Afridi & Angell

Fadwa Mohanna
CEO, micity fz co

Gary Sheynkman
Managing Partner, Leyden Ventures

Oliver Prock
CEO and CIO, Salus Alpha

Ian Lim Teck Soon
Co-Founder, Bamboo Wellness Holdings

Kanes Naidu Athinaidu
Group CTO, Global Business & Underwriting, The Archipelago Group

Krish Bissoonauthsing
Chief Executive Officer, AfDex - Africa Digital Exchange

Francois Guibert
Chief Executive Officer, Economic Development Board, Mauritius

Vin Menon
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor, CGCX.io

Cherine Ghali
Executive Director, Paraiba

Amine Bentaleb
Senior Portfolio Manager, Kimera Corp

George Salapa
Managing Partner, bardicredit

2019 Sponsors & Partners

STATEGIC PARTNER:
• Dalma Capital

HOST SPONSOR:
• ABU DHABI GLOBAL MARKET

GOLD SPONSORS:
• ADS Investment Solutions
• ROI Securitisation
• AfDex Holdings Ltd
• bamboo

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Apex
• LecocqAssociate
• Phoenix Advisors
• Emirates Wealth

ROUND-TABLE SPONSORS:
• FitchRatins
• Antares Capital
• Decentral Park Capital
• Bardi Credit

EXHIBITORS:
• Audacis Advisors
• Mercer
• Intertrust
• FICAS

OFFICIAL BROADCAST PARTNER:
• CNBC

EDUCATION PARTNERS:
• CAIA Association
• AIMA

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Crowd Reviews
• Eurekahedge
• Preqin
• Savvy Investor
• BarclayHedge
• Alpha Journal
• SmartMoneyWatch
• Famliy Office Magazine & Events
• Bitcoin Magazine NL
• 7Marketz

MODERATORS:
• Financial Times
• IE Busines School
• Swfi