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Walid Cherif
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Adam Hadidi
Founder & Managing Director
Rami Matar
Founder & Director

Walid Cherif

FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
Walid is the Founder and Managing Director of BluePeak Private Capital. He has more than 24 years of experience in international finance in emerging markets. Walid has raised and invested more than US$ 800 million of capital for private credit and equity funds and has structured and executed numerous transactions on the investment and divestment sides. Walid spent ten years at the International Finance Corporation before heading the GSC Group - NBK Capital Mezzanine Fund. In 2011, he joined Gulf Capital where he founded and headed the private credit business focused on private credit investments across Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Walid holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and International Business from George Washington University in the US, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion, University of Tunis III.

Adam Hadidi

Founder & Managing Director
Adam is the Founder and Managing Director of BluePeak Private Capital. He has 15 years of international investment management and banking experience.Adam was previously a Managing Director at Gulf Capital’s private credit business, which he joined as a founding member in 2011. Prior to joining Gulf Capital, Adam worked at UBS in London as Associate Director in its special situations team and at MezzVest, a mezzanine fund manager with over EUR 2 billion of assets under management. He started his career in leveraged finance at Royal Bank of Scotland.Adam holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.

Rami Matar

Founder & Director
Rami is the Founder and Director of BluePeak Private Capital. He has 10 years of experience in corporate finance and investment in emerging markets. Rami was previously Vice President at Gulf Capital’s private credit business, which he joined in 2013. During his time at Gulf Capital, Rami led transactions across Africa and the Middle East and executed investments in the education, business services, agri-business, manufacturing, industrials, and oil & gas sectors.Prior to joining Gulf Capital, Rami worked at Ernst & Young in Beirut and in Dubai in the corporate finance team, covering numerous sectors and transactions in the MENA region.Rami is a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration – Finance (BBA-F) from the American University of Beirut.
Fulton Shiundu
Director
Selma Cherif
PRINCIPAL, Sustainability & Stakeholders’ Engagement
Malih Turki
FINANCE & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Fulton Shiundu

Director
Fulton joined BluePeak in September 2021 having spent more than 10 years in private equity and corporate finance.Fulton was previously an Investment Manager at Catalyst Principal Partners, an East Africa focused private equity firm where he spent 4.5 years originating and portfolio managing several deals across multiple industries. Prior to that Fulton was a Manager at KPMG Corporate Finance in London, where he spent 6 years focused on executing buyside and sell-side mid-market M&A transactions within the Industrials sector in Europe and North America.Fulton graduated from University of Warwick with a Bsc Economics and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Selma Cherif

Principal, Sustainability & Stakeholders’ Engagement

Selma joined BluePeak Private Capital in 2019. She looks after investor engagement and is in charge of driving the fund's sustainability and impact strategy.

Selma has 8 years of experience in corporate finance and investment management. Selma started her career at EY in the Transaction Advisory team where she worked on numerous due diligence, valuation and M&A mandates before joining  the Caisse des Depôts et Consignations as an Investment Manager.

Selma holds a Bachelor in Management & Economics, as well as a Master’s in Banking & Finance from Université Paris Dauphine.

Malih Turki

Finance & Operations Director

Malih has more than 20 years of experience in audit, accounting, and financial controls. He started his career as an auditor at one of the largest audit firms (former Coopers&Lybrand) in Tunisia before joining Ciments d'Enfidha (Grupo Cementos Portland Valderrivas), as a financial controller. Since 2008, Malih has been with Swicorp, a regional investment firm, where he managed and coordinated financial aspects of the company entities in Saudi Arabia, United
Arab Emirates, Tunisia, and Switzerland.

Malih holds a bachelor degree in accounting from Institut des Hautes Etudes de Carthage and an advanced diploma in accounting and management from Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et 'Administration des
Entreprises, Tunis. Malih is a Certified Public
Accountant and member of the Tunisian Certified Public Accountants Institute.

Emma Farthing
E&S Officer
Malek Charfeddine
Associate
Nesserine Kallel
ASSOCIATE

Emma Farthing

E&S Officer
Emma has more than 30 years working as an environmental and sustainability professional in many international jurisdictions. She has experience and expertise in operational reviews of EHS strategy, management systems, procedures and practice to national and local compliance standards, industry best practice and IFI guidelines / standards; transaction support (vendor and acquisition) to national and local compliance standards (EHS), industry best practice including project finance lender due diligence; training and capacity building; and environmental program, project management. Emma works with clients from the financial sector including private equity firms and banks, and with industrial and commercial clients in a variety of sectors including but not limited to real estate, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food processing and packaging and general manufacturing and ICT. Emma has a BSc. (Geography) and MSc. (Hydrogeology) and is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS) and a member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA).

Malek Charfeddine

Associate

Malek has 4 years of experience in corporate finance. Malek was previously a Senior Associate at PWC Tunis in the Transaction Services Department where she worked on several valuation, business plan and due diligence projects. Fulbright Scholar, Malek holds an MS in finance from the University of Tampa as well as a Research Master’s Degree from Faculty of Economic Sciences & Management, Tunis.Malek is a certified Financial Modelling Valuation Analyst (FMVA) from the Corporate Finance Institute.

Nesserine Kallel

Associate

Nesserine has more than 3 years of experience in investment banking as an M&A Associate at Attijari Finances Tunisie.
Nesserine holds a bachelor’s in accounting from IHEC Carthage as well as a master’s in finance from Université Paris Dauphine. She is a certified Financial Modelling Valuation Analyst (FMVA) from the Corporate Finance Institute and she received the International Certificate in Corporate Finance (ICCF) from HEC Paris Executive Education.

Sirine Rouissi
Analyst

Sirine Rouissi

Analyst

Sirine joined BluePeak as an Analyst. She holds a bachelor degree in business administration from Tunis Business School.