Team
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Mirza Beg
Founding Partner
Mirza is a Founding Partner of Ruya Partners with over 28 years of global investing and investment banking experience from the U.S., UK, Asia and the MENA region.
Before establishing Ruya Partners, Mirza established and led the private credit business of Waha Capital in Abu Dhabi. Before Waha Capital, Mirza was HSBC’s Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Commercial Banking Origination for the MENA region.
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Omar AlYawer
Partner
Omar is a Partner at Ruya Partners with over 25 years of asset-raising and equity trading experience from the U.S., UK and the MENA region.
Before joining Ruya Partners, Omar was Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, responsible for re-establishing firm’s presence in the Gulf region. He also held similar senior roles covering the region for the past 15 years, including Director of Middle East Sales at Man Group, Director of Institutional Sales at Franklin Templeton Investments, and Head of Investor Relations at NBK Capital Partners, where he and Rashid Siddiqi worked together since 2008.
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Hussain Korji
Chief Financial Officer
Hussain is a Chief Financial Officer at Ruya Partners and brings over 24 years of experience in accounting, finance, treasury and capital markets from Australia, Asia and the MENA region.
Prior to joining Ruya Partners, Hussain led the Financial Instruments Centre of Excellence (FICOE) business as a Senior Director of Treasury and Capital Market of Deloitte Australia for over four years. Hussain was responsible for establishing the firm’s presence in Asia Pacific and managing 200+ clients across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore, offering private debt valuation, credit assessment, treasury internal control, derivatives products, and hedge accounting.
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Shweta Shastri
Vice President
Shweta is a Vice President at Ruya Partners with over 10 years of private equity, green infrastructure and investment banking experience from India & EMEA region.
Prior to joining Ruya Partners, Shweta worked at EverSource Capital, Everstone Group as Vice President – Investments & The Investment Office. Before that she worked in the Investment Banking division of Deutsche Bank (CIB) covering Industrials sector in the EMEA region and as an Equity Research Analyst covering the Indian Tire sector at Anvil Share & Stock Broking Pvt. Ltd.
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Badma Lidzhanov
Investment Associate
Badma Lidzhanov is an Investment Associate with over five years of experience in corporate finance, valuation, and leveraged finance. Badma’s most recent position involved working for VTB in the Leveraged Finance department, where he analyzed financing of M&A and LBO transactions. He has been involved in numerous deals across multiple sectors in Russia, such as agriculture, transport infrastructure, e-commerce, and IT.
Before VTB Capital, he had worked at EY as a Senior Consultant in the Department of Valuation, Modelling, and Economics. While working at EY, he developed a deep understanding of valuation and accounting concepts.
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Nasra Alhashemi
Office & Administrative Manager
Nasra is the Office and Administrative Manager with over eight years of experience managing critical roles in office management. Nasra is also the Company Secretary and works with the Board of Ruya Partners. She was previously an Executive Assistant at Waha Capital, working closely with our Founding Partners, Mirza Beg and Rashid Siddiqi.
She started her career in 2013 in an oil & gas company (IOTA) as a Secretary and Operation Officer. She was responsible for expense management, budget planning, and office activities.
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