About Ruya
Ruya (pronounced “Ruo-yah” means “Vision” in Arabic) was established with the mission of providing flexible capital solutions to private sector companies in emerging markets where traditional financing markets leave a significant funding gap, particularly in the small to the medium-sized enterprise segment. This segment is vital for the regional economies and plays an essential role in achieving GDP growth, diversification, and advancing the goals of regional socio-economic agendas. We provide bespoke funding solutions to this segment while delivering a superior risk-adjusted return with regular current income to our investors.
What We Do
We provide innovative, alternative financing solutions for mid-market private sector companies within the region in situations where the funding needs are not well served by the traditional financing markets. We provide capital solutions to companies with strong business fundamentals, cash generating capabilities and proven management teams with a demonstrated track record of successful execution.
Team
Mirza Beg
Founding Partner
Mirza is a Founding Partner of Ruya Partners with over 26 years of global investing and investment banking experience accumulated in the U.S., U.K., Asia and the MENA region.
Omar Al Yawer
Partner
Omar is a Partner at Ruya Partners with over 23 years of experience working for leading global and regional asset management firms covering the Middle East and underpinned by asset-raising and equity trading experience in the U.S.
Farah Bou Abboud
Associate
Farah is an associate at Ruya Partners with over four years of corporate finance and investment experience accumulated in the MENA region.
Nasra Alhashemi
Office and Administrative Manager
Nasra is office & administrative manager with over 8 years of experience managing key roles in office management. Nasra is also the Company Secretary and will be working with the Board of Ruya Partners in that capacity. She was previously an Executive Assistant at Waha Capital, where she worked closely with our co-founders Mirza Beg and Rashid Siddiqi.
ESG
We believe that integrating consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into our investment process will allow us to generate superior risk-adjusted returns across market and economic cycles and create positive socio-economic impact. ESG integration is consistent with our fiduciary duty to our investors and our corporate values.
