Our Team

Arab Advisors Group Team


Hani Al-Qadi - Chairman

Nasser Tarawneh - Vice Chairman - Chief Consultant

Jawad Abbassi - Founder & General Manager

Hani Al-Qadi
Chairman

Mr. Hani Al Qadi is Arab Advisors Group's Chairman. In this capacity, Mr. Al
Qadi actively steers the company's strategic direction.
Mr. Al-Qadi is currently General Manager and Vice Chairman of Arab Jordan
Investment Bank. He is also Managing Director and Member of the boards of
the Palestine Investment Bank, Managing Director of Mediterranean Tourism
Investment Company, and Chairman of Visa Jordan Services Company.
Prior to joining AJIB he worked in the Investment Banking divisions of Bankers Trust
in New York and J.P Morgan in London. Mr. Al-Qadi was educated at the Imperial
College of Science and Technology in London and is an Honor graduate of Harvard Business School with an MBA in Finance. Mr. Al-Qadi led AJIB's team for the privatization and sale of the Jordan Airports Duty Free Shops and is leading AJIB's team in the restructuring and privatization of Royal Jordanian
Airline. Mr.Al-Qadi also led AJIB's team in the initial public offering of Middle
Eastern Tourism and Investment Co. (JD 10,000,000), Arab Jordan Investment
Company (JD 10,000,000) and the Palestine Investment Bank (US$ 20,000,000).

Nasser Tarawneh
Vice Chairman - Chief Consultant

Mr. Tarawneh's vast experience in consulting avails Arab Advisors Group
major strength in undertaking strategic consulting engagements for our
clients. Mr. Tarawneh joined AJIB in May 2000, in the capacity of Assistant General Manager
and Head of Investment Banking. Prior to this, and since 1997, he was
Privatization Transaction Manager at the Prime Ministry in charge of the
privatization of Royal Jordanian Airlines. Mr. Tarawneh also participated in
developing Jordan's National Privatization Strategy, and worked on the
privatization of the Jordan Telecommunications Company. His most recent
projects include privatization of Jordan's CEGCO, EDCO and IDECO and the
restructuring and privatization of Jordan's Postal System as well as the
initial public offering of the government's shares in Jordan Telecom.

 

Jawad Abbassi
Founder & General Manager

Mr. Abbassi has more than 10 years experience in the telecommunications, Internet and datacommunications fields. As president of Arab Advisors Group, Mr. Abbassi directs the research and consulting activities of the company in addition to steering its marketing operations. Mr. Abbassi led and coordinated Arab Advisors Group's research projects to date in addition to overseeing the research reports and literature produced by the team. Mr. Abbassi is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars related to technology and communications in the Arab World.

Before founding Arab Advisors Group, Mr. Abbassi's career experience includes working as a senior telecommunications and technology consultant in Boston - USA. Mr. Abbassi was responsible for writing reports analyzing Internet computing trends and strategies in the North American market. During his tenure, Mr. Abbassi coordinated a major project for an Arab Gulf government to frame the requirements for liberalization of the telecommunications sector in that country. The work included conducting a major market survey of businesses and residences to quantify and qualify the level of demand for telecom and datacomm services in the country. Mr. Abbassi oversaw the whole of the work of the survey, designed the questionnaires and analyzed the results in reports and presentations. The work also entailed forecasting the future trends of the telecommunications, datacomm and Internet markets in the country using the survey results as well as a competitive audit of the monopoly provider in the market.

Between 1998 and 2000, Mr. Abbassi was a Senior Analyst with the communications research arm of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Boston. During his stay with the Economist Intelligence Unit, Mr. Abbassi, produced three comprehensive research reports on Africa Wireless markets (March 1999), Middle East communication markets (September 1999) and Egypt's communication markets (January 2000) in addition to authoring numerous analytical articles and briefs on the communications markets in the Arab World. He also participated in researching and writing a report on Telecoms in the Middle East (March 1998). Custom consulting work included working with the World Bank on quantifying the "information economy infrastructure" in the countries of Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Additionally, Mr. Abbassi published papers on the VoIP services in monopoly-dominated telecom markets.

Before his work in Boston, Mr. Abbassi worked as a corporate accounts manager for Jordan's leading Internet service provider (NETS) and was responsible for conducting liaisons with international software developers, promoting the email and network solutions for corporate accounts, and performing technical support for these sales. With NETS, Mr. Abbassi led and coordinated the work needed to establish its first international leased line with Cyprus. Mr. Abbassi also worked for Apple Computers dealership, in addition to being a weekly columnist on Information Technology in Jordan's leading English weekly.

Languages:
Mr. Abbassi is fluent in English in addition to being a native speaker of Arabic. Basic French.

Education:
Mr. Abbassi received a BSc in engineering from the American University in Cairo (Egypt - 1993) and his MSc in information systems from the London School of Economics (United Kingdom - 1998).