Senior practitioners with long careers in the markets where our mandates sit. They advise the practice, and they work on mandates alongside us.
Christopher Rogers
Private banking · Africa
Christopher Rogers is an international banking and investment executive with more than four decades of experience across private banking, investment management and African markets.
During a 28-year career at Citibank he became a leading specialist in African private banking. In 1985 he built a dedicated Citibank private-banking business for Africa and served as Global Market Manager, coordinating activity across Geneva, Zurich, London, Paris, Monaco, New York, Luxembourg, Jersey and the Bahamas. The business grew to more than 25 dedicated relationship and service managers and, on his own account, close to US$5 billion in assets under management by 2000.
He later served as First Vice President at EFG Bank (Gibraltar) Ltd, and subsequently continued his Africa-focused career in investment and trade finance, including as a non-executive director of Scipion Capital and Regional Head of Francophone Africa.
He brings the Advisory Board deep experience in cross-border banking, relationship management and strategic business development, together with a long-standing network across international financial centres and the African continent.
Osama Ali Fadaak
Investment banking · Gulf
Osama Ali Fadaak is a Saudi investment and financial adviser with close to four decades of experience across investment banking, corporate finance and infrastructure projects in the Gulf and the wider MENA region.
Based in Jeddah, he has advised sovereign wealth funds, family groups and high-net-worth investors on capital sourcing, private placement, private equity and Shariah-compliant structures. From 2014 to 2017 he was Senior Business Consultant at Kuwait Finance House, working on investment banking and corporate finance transactions including aircraft lease and lease-buyback deals. From 2004 to 2007 he covered the Middle East for EFG Bank in Geneva, and earlier held senior consulting roles with London Court Limited and Jasper Capital in London. Between 1993 and 1999 he was Senior Advisor in the International Division of National Commercial Bank in Jeddah.
Across his career he has worked on mandates involving Concord International, Petrobras, Banque Paribas, Chevron and the Carlyle Group, and on IPP and EPC power projects and airport and port concessions.
He brings the Advisory Board first-hand knowledge of Gulf capital, Islamic finance structuring and large-scale infrastructure.
Patrick P. Coppens
Quantitative investment · London
Patrick P. Coppens is a founding partner and chief executive of Altera Partners Management Ltd, a privately owned investment management company established in London in 2003.
He specialises in trading and investment systems that combine qualitative research with quantitative algorithms, and oversees large, complex projects through the development of custom software.
Before founding Altera Partners, he held senior positions in the fixed-income derivatives divisions of Lehman Brothers and Nomura International, and ran Bankgesellschaft Berlin’s US$15 billion trading book in exotic fixed-income derivatives.
His expertise spans portfolio management, risk management and software development. A frequent speaker at hedge fund symposiums, he holds a degree in financial engineering from the Solvay Business School at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
He brings the Advisory Board quantitative depth, derivatives experience and a practitioner’s view of how investment systems are actually built.
Mekki Saheli
Business development · Dubai
Mekki Saheli has more than three decades of experience in international business development across the Middle East and Europe, where he has led companies specialising in advanced technology, security and business integration.
In 2018 he founded the Waynah Group in Dubai, a portfolio spanning real estate, project management, consultancy and design.
He holds an advanced degree in computer science from Oklahoma State University and an advanced diploma in international relations.
He brings the Advisory Board a builder’s view of the Gulf — how companies are actually established and run there — alongside technology and security expertise the practice does not otherwise hold.
Faredine Fukeerah
Capital markets · Mauritius
Faredine Fukeerah is group chairman and chief executive of Maubex, working across Mauritius, Switzerland and southern Africa.
He has sixteen years in trading, market analysis and investment strategy, a decade of it in Switzerland’s financial sector across front, middle and back office. He has managed a United States equity fund with assets above US$100 million, and sat on investment committees where idea generation and risk discipline were the measure of the work.
He is chief executive and chairman of Maubex Capital, the group’s FSCA-licensed South African brokerage; chief executive and co-founder of Maubex Limited in Mauritius; and a director of Chancery, an institutional digital-asset brokerage platform.
He holds a BSc in Finance from the University of Mauritius.
He brings the Advisory Board a trading floor’s discipline on risk, experience of regulated brokerage in two jurisdictions, and a direct line into southern African and Indian Ocean capital.
George Mashinini
Mining & commodities · Johannesburg
George Mashinini is an international business development and strategic advisory professional with almost two decades of experience across mining and minerals, commodities, trade finance and cross-border transactions.
Based in Johannesburg, a gateway into the Southern African commodities markets, he works at the intersection of natural resources, capital and trade. As an independent consultant to businesses in the mining and mineral value chain, he has supported commercial strategy, transaction origination, market development and access to financing and offtake.
He is Regional Director for Del Gatto Finance Group, a specialist finance group serving the global diamond and jewellery industry, where he originates opportunities across Southern Africa and connects them to the group’s international financing platform — miners, De Beers contractors, dealers and others in the value chain.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Risk Management) from North-West University, and has studied law through the University of South Africa.
He brings the Advisory Board Southern African market knowledge and a network spanning mining and resource businesses, financial institutions and commodity traders.
