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10-11 March 2009
Hisham El-Khazindar, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Citadel Capital S.A.E.
Mr. Hisham El-Khazindar is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Citadel Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa. Established in 2004, Citadel Capital now controls investments worth more than US$ 8.3 billion in industries including mining, oil and gas, cement, transportation and food. Prior to co-founding Citadel Capital in 2004, Mr. El-Khazindar was Executive Director of Investment Banking at EFG-Hermes, where he advised on key transactions including the IPOs of Orascom Construction Industries, Ezz Steel and Orascom Telecom. In 1999, he was on secondment to Goldman Sachs in London, where he advised European firms on strategic options and M&A transactions. Mr. El-Khazindar sits on the boards of leading regional companies including ASEC Holding and El Sewedy Cables. He is the Chairman of the Capital Markets and Investment Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt and a board member of the Egyptian Capital Markets Association. He holds a BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Citadel Capital
Citadel Capital (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Stock Exchange) is the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa. Citadel Capital focuses on building regional platforms in select industries through acquisitions, turnarounds, and greenfields executed via Opportunity-Specific Funds. The firm's 19 OSFs now control Platform Companies with investments worth more than US$ 9.0 billion in 15 countries spanning 15 industries, including mining, cement, transportation, food and energy. Since 2004, Citadel Capital has generated more than US$ 2.2 billion in cash returns to its co-investors and shareholders (on investments of US$ 650 million), more than any other private equity firm in the region. Citadel Capital is the largest private equity firm in Africa by PE assets under management (2005-2011, as ranked by Private Equity International). For more information, please visit www.citadelcapital.com.
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