Investment & Strategic Projects Director
Obeikan Investment Group
Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months
• Successfully established over 10 Joint Ventures and Partnerships with large multinationals across manufacturing and digital businesses
• Successfully executed numerous M&A deals on both buy and sell side
• Manage current investment portfolio and present periodic recommendations on investment opportunities
• Prepare analysis and reports for the Board of Directors for Obeikan Group as well as for 2 Joint Ventures with international companies
• Administer in-depth due diligence, business analysis and recommended valuation for all Investment, Merger and Acquisition opportunities for the Group
• Defined and prepared Corporate Strategy for the Obeikan Group and its 26 companies
• Cascaded corporate strategy to Group companies and guide them in execution and implementation of strategy
• Developing and implementing Digitalization / Industry 4.0 (IoT) Strategy and Digital Transformation for the Group
• Building Partner Eco-system for Digitalization and implementing Proof of Concept (PoC), Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)
• Provide market research, analyses and insights into latest industry trends
• Defined and established Business Intelligence Dashboards for the Group and its subsidiaries for close monitoring and decision making thereby enabling better implementation of corporate plans
• Assisted in developing Corporate Governance structure, defining roles and responsibilities of the Board
• Analyse budgets and long-term business projections submitted by Group companies, assess deviation of actuals vs budgeted financials models and figured out the reasons and proposed corrective actions
• Manage all loans and dealings with Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) for all Obeikan Group Companies
• Conducted numerous feasibility studies and prepared reports to assess the viability & growth opportunities for projects and business lines; identified business risks, assessed the impact, monitored mitigation plans
• Developed analytical financial models to analyse budgets and long-term business projections
• Prepare and review all NDAs, LOI, SPA, JV Agreements, PPMs and IMs for the Group
• Advised and consulted a large multinational FMCG Company in GCC on enhancing their Logistics & Distribution System
• Carried out a Due Diligence for Middle East based Private Equity for project worth USD 117 M
• Provided strategy consultation and financial analysis and evaluation to a large Chinese Automotive Manufacturer on their Partnership project with a Middle East based company
• Lead as Head of Operations for multiple strategic business units in Saudi Arabia along with overall achievement of the set/planned business targets keeping financial health of the organisation
• Efficiently planned and executed new business strategies for the business and increased profitability by 16% in 2 years by implementing new revenue generation models
• Successfully negotiated with logistics providers and successfully saved logistic expenditures by 33% and increased the profit from Value Added Services by 89% in 2 years
• Consistently achieved 100% conformance to Service Level Agreements in contracts and customer service levels
RECOGNITIONS,SOCIALANDVOLUNTEERENGAGEMENTS • Recognized as “Grand Champion” of Marketplace Strategic Management Simulation, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia conducted by