NEW YORK, January 29, 2014 – Teneo today made several new additions to Teneo Capital, expanding its regional presence in Dubai and its coverage capabilities across the firm.
• Karim Shariff: Mr. Shariff, formerly a Senior Advisor to Teneo, joins Teneo Capital Dubai as Vice Chairman. Mr. Shariff spent nine years at Lehman Brothers in the Emerging Markets, Global Power, and M&A Groups, having completed over $50 billion in M&A and capital-raising transactions involving companies principally in Asia and South America. In 2001, Mr. Shariff co-founded Marco Polo Network, currently the largest independent platform for electronic trading of securities listed and traded on emerging market exchanges. In 2009, Mr. Shariff founded Majlis Investment Management, whose focus is identifying and developing multi-strategy, multi-asset class global investment opportunities alongside substantial private clients across the Middle East, East Africa, and the Sub-Continent.
• Aamir Quraishi: Mr. Quraishi joins Teneo Capital Dubai as a Managing Director. He has over 15 years of investment banking experience in Europe, Asia and the Middle East having joined the Corporate Finance & Advisory Division of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (1996-2003) in London. He also lived and worked in Tokyo (2000) while on secondment. He left to focus on emerging markets with Libertas Capital Group Plc (2003-2011) successfully building its Capital Markets practice and then relocating to its Dubai office in late 2007. Immediately prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Quraishi worked with MAC Capital Limited (2011-2013), a DFSA regulated investment bank operating out of the DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre).
• Sanjeev Varma: Mr. Varma joins Teneo Capital as a Managing Director based in New York. Mr. Varma has over 28 years of experience in the automotive and manufacturing sectors, specializing in corporate finance, strategic planning, marketing, sales, business development, manufacturing and product development. Previously, Mr. Varma served on the Senior Advisory Board at Duff & Phelps Securities, LLC and Chanin Capital Partners. He has recently been involved in the following cases: Visteon Corp., Hayes Lemmerz, Internet Corp., Dura Automotive and Delphi Automotive.