Walid Cherif

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Biography

Mr. Walid Cherif is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at BluePeak Private Capital. He served as Senior Managing Director at Gulf Capital. He was the founder of the private debt business at Gulf Capital. He also serves as an Independent Board Member at ADES International Holding. He headed the debt platform since he joined Gulf Capital in 2011. He has more than 22 years of experience in international finance in emerging markets. He also serves as a Board Member at Carbon Holdings. He has participated in raising more than $600m of commitments for mezzanine and equity funds as well as structuring and executing several junior debts and structured equity transactions on the investment and divestment sides. Before joining Gulf Capital, he was the head of the NBK Capital Mezzanine Fund (a subsidiary of the National Bank of Kuwait) where he made several mezzanine investments in companies operating in the Middle East and Turkey. He currently sits on the investment committee of both funds and on the board of several portfolio companies in the Middle East. Prior to joining NBK Capital in 2007, he spent ten years at the International Finance Corporation (the "IFC") - The World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., Dubai, and Istanbul. He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and International Business from George Washington University in the USA, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the InstitutSupérieur de Gestion, University of Tunis III.