Hammad Younas is the Chief Investment Officer – Private Equity and leads the overall investment business of the Group including Private Equity, Corporate Investment and Asset Management. He also serves as a member of the group’s management committee. In his role he has led strategic initiatives expanding market share, increasing group’s AUM, entering new markets, asset classes and business lines. Hammad has more than 26 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, structured credit solutions, real estate, and asset management, and throughout his career he has led several multi-bn dollar regional and cross-border transactions in MENA, US, Europe and Asia across multiple sectors and asset classes along with a proven track record of exits. His transaction expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, listings, secondary offerings, private placements, special situations and debt raising. In addition, he is a growth strategy and business development expert. In his various capacities, he has led the setup of several financial institutions and also served on advisory and executive committees and multiple portfolio companies boards.
Hammad has an in-depth understanding of complex structures across multiple jurisdictions and rolled out regionwide multi-strategy fundraising programs through his significant experience of institutional investor interaction and extensive network of banking, private equity, sovereign and high net worth relationships. Prior to joining GFH in 2016, Hammad was a Partner at Ernst & Young MENA and their Transaction Advisory Leader for Bahrain. He was also the CEO of Ernst & Young Corporate Finance, Bahrain. Hammad spent more than 13 years with Ernst & Young advising a wide range of clients including financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and real estate investment firms, governments, family businesses and high net worth individuals on their investment, capital raising, performance improvement, restructuring and strategy.
Hammad is a CFA charter holder from the CFA Institute USA, a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the UK, and FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
