Mr. Al-Maskati has working project experience in a variety of industries including hospitality & leisure, consumer and industrial products, financial services, media, transportation, real estate and government services. He is a trained professional in asset allocation strategies, portfolio management, risk management and asset securitization.
Mr. AlMaskati is a senior investment executive with an accomplished career spanning over 12 years. Has a track record based on a through understanding of the GCC investment banking and real estate industries. Mr. AlMaskati is a founding member of RealCAPITA and was previously an Executive Director in Tameer, a publicly real estate development company traded on the Bahrain and Kuwait stock exchanges. At Tameer, Mr. AlMaskati was responsible for managing a $500mn portfolio of real estate projects in a number of markets (GCC, MENA, Europe and the N. American). He also structured investment funds dedicated to the development of an US$1bn industrial park and a US$500mn man-made resort island in Bahrain. In addition, he lead the investment structuring team in established a specialized US$50mn mortgage finance company in Bahrain and incorporating a US$25mn theme park development company.
Previous to Tameer, Mr. AlMaskati, was a manager at the Bahrain branch of Coopers & Lybrand, PricewaterhouseCoopers and BDO Jawad Habib. All of which are strategic consultancy firms. In this post, Mr. Almaskati led a team of consultants during numerous assignments in a variety of industry disciplines. This included advising on the private placement of a several investment, commercial and Islamic banks in Bahrain and Dubai including a US$300mn Islamic investment bank in Bahrain. He also advised on the establishment of the telecom regulatory authority in Bahrain and the viability of issuing a second mobile license. His work involved establishing several mortgage lending institutions including a building society.
Previous to his consultancy post, Mr. AlMaskati worked for Arab Reinsurance Group (ARIG) in Bahrain and was a member of the business development team which commissioned the establishment of subsidiaries in the direct life and medical insurance business lines in Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco
Mr. AlMaskati enjoys an extensive range of industry experience spanning the fields of real estate (mortgage lending, securitization instruments, BOT projects), hospitality and leisure (hotels & serviced apartments, retail malls & cinemas, franchised restaurants), financial services (consumer finance, insurance underwriting), industrial products (aluminum & steel, petrochemicals & plastics), consumer products (food & beverages, hydroponics, electronics, cosmetics & pharmaceuticals), media (outdoor advertisement, exhibition management, newspapers & cable TV), information technology (data centers & smart cards, Mobile & satellite telephony, e-learning) , education (private schools & universities, training institutes, sports academies) Mr. Al-Maskati graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Kansas State University, Kansas, USA. In addition he has a Diploma in Insurance Studies from the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance (1996), and a management consultancy MBA from Coopers & Lybrand Consulting School, London, UK (1998). |