INVESTMENTS
The Arabian Group Fund is principally dedicated to alternative investments (private equity funds in developed and emerging markets). We are proud to announce that the hard work and solidly due-diligenced decisions of our investment team has resulted in significant growth in the size of the aggregate portfolio in a relatively short period of time.
Dr. Faisal Al-Monawer is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Arabian Group Fund. He is a serial entrepreneur and has invested in numerous startups at Angel & seed stage - several of which are now recognized as multibillion dollar corporations.
Dr. Al-Monawer has taught at Harvard University and conducted research at various Institutes in and around Boston. Working with several sovereign wealth funds within the GCC as well as private funds - primarily in the USA, China, London (and some emerging markets) Faisal was able to build a group of stakeholders to manage the Arabian Group fund.
The team constitutes of passionate and hard working professionals with world class experience (at institutions including: The London Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs International, CitiGroup Americas, World Bank-Washington, McKinsey-Dubai, etc). The team's educational backgrounds are also second-to-none and include some of the best Global Institutions (eg: Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cornell, USC, etc).
Faisal earned three master’s degrees from Kuwait, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University with his education culminating with a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Horacio divides his time between the Middle East and Latin America, analyzing markets and forecasting political and economic trends for the last three decades; he is helped in these tasks by his graduate work at Tulane University, where he earned, thanks to merit-based scholarships, an MBA in Finance and an MA in Political Science. A former naval officer, he is passionate about reading history and playing chess.
Mr. Du co-worked with Dr. Al-Monawer to establish the Arabian Group Fund which invested in numerous startupsat Angel & seed stage - several of which are now recognized as multi-billion dollar corporations.
Mr. Du works to promote the collaboration between GCC member countries and China through exploring potential investment opportunities under China's Belt and Road Initiative.
Lin earned his bachelor and two master’s degrees respectively from China University of Mining and Technology with a master degree of political science and philosophy, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a master degree of public administration. Lin also serves as a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in public finance and administration.