Fahd Mahmoud Malhas is a co-founder of Gulfmena. Fahd has over 7 years experience in capital markets which began in 2004 with HSBC Capital Markets Saudi Arabia. He currently manages over USD 50 million in fixed income securities for PCB Bank's proprietary book and his family office. Fahd serves as Board Member for Bank Al Etihad PJSC, Mediterranean Tourism Investment Company PJSC (The Owner of Four Seasons Hotel Jordan), PCB Bank PJSC, Al Basem Trading & Contracting Ltd and Al Mahmoudia Holding Ltd. He is also the Chairman of Dobrando Ltd in affiliation with FITCH UK and Chairman of PCB Bank's Executive Committee.

Haissam Arabi is the founder of Gulfmena. Haissam has more than 17 years experience in the financial arena of which the last 15, he spent specializing in equity investments in MENA markets. He guided the structuring of several regional mutual funds and specialized portfolios and he also incubated new trading strategies, some of which will form an integral component of Gulfmena’s investment  strategies. Prior to forming Gulfmena, Haissam worked with SHUAA Capital, a leading regional investment bank based in Dubai for 8½ years as Managing Director, having founded its asset management division. In his capacity as SHUAA Capital’s lead fund manager, he also ran the firm’s long-only equity funds, both conventional as well as Shari’ah compliant, until June 2008. During his tenure, Assets under Management grew from USD 18.0 million in 2001 to over USD 1.85 billion by June 2008. Haissam enjoys both a regional and an international media profile and makes frequent public appearances on TV, radio, conferences, periodicals and prime daily newspapers.

Marc Hambach is a co-founder of Gulfmena. Marc has extensive experience in regulatory, legal and operational affairs. His responsibilities include fund control and portfolio risk management, middle office, back office, finance, product structuring, HR, IT and legal and compliance oversight. Previously, Marc worked with Haissam Arabi at SHUAA Capital as COO of the asset management division. Prior to that, He served for 5 years as Associate Director Supervision & Head of AML at the DFSA, the financial services regulator in the DIFC which he joined in 2003 and where he assisted in setting up the regulator and the regulatory regime. Marc was responsible for the Prudential and Conduct of Business supervision of several large European, U.S. and regional institutions in the areas of asset management, fund administration, private banking, investment banking and Islamic finance. From 1999 to 2003 he worked for Clearstream International, the Luxembourg based clearing house in a number of executive positions. Marc started his career at a German law firm and subsequently engaged as a legal consultant focusing on IPOs. He holds a Masters Degree in Law from the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany and is an INSEAD Alumni and a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist.