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 datacommnications 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).