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Mirza Beg
Mirza Beg
Founding Partner

Mirza is a Founding Partner of Ruya Partners with over 26 years of global investing and investment banking experience in the U.S., U.K., Asia, and the MENA region.

Before establishing Ruya Partners, Mirza established and led the private debt business of Waha Capital PJSC in 2016. Before Waha Capital, Mirza worked in Dubai and was Head of Corporate Finance, MENA, and Head of Commercial Banking Origination, MENA at HSBC.

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Rashid Siddiqi
Rashid Siddiqi
Founding Partner

Rashid is a Founding Partner of Ruya Partners and brings over 24 years of direct investing and investment banking experience in the U.S. and the MENA region.

Before establishing Ruya Partners, Rashid was co-head of the private debt business for Waha Capital with Mirza Beg since joining there in 2017. Before Waha Capital, Rashid was Managing Director at NBK Capital Partners (NBKCP) in Dubai, which he joined during the founding stage of the alternative investment platform. Over the next nine years with the firm, Rashid led in pioneering the private credit asset class in the MENA and Turkey region and establishing the firm’s successful track record in private equity.

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Omar Al Yawer
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.

Omar has spent the last 15 years covering the Gulf region in senior institutional advisory and asset-raising roles focused on sovereign wealth funds, pensions, endowments, banks, and family groups.

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Farah Bou Abboud
Associate

Farah is an associate at Ruya Partners with over four years of corporate finance and investment experience in the MENA region.

Before joining Ruya Partners, Farah held the position of assistant manager in PwC Dubai’s M&A advisory team (PwC CF), where he advised large corporates, regional SMEs, and family businesses on M&A and capital raising transactions, including debt and equity.

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Nasra Alhashemi
Office & Administrative Manager

Nasra is an office & administrative manager with over eight years of experience managing critical 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, 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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