Steve Khayat, CFMP, CFM, is the Founder and Managing Director of Phoenix Venture Partners Limited. With more than twenty-two years of experience, he is a visionary leader who seeks out opportunities that others would overlook. As a strategist, he draws on the breadth of his experience in executive leadership, forging uncommon pathways that in turn lead to uncommon results. Because of the extensive tenures that he has held at world-class organizations, he has accrued a singular know-how with regards to recognizing and pursuing investment opportunities. He sees, in short, what is possible with the best investments available – and then precisely what he and his team need to do in order to make the most of those investments.

Mr. Khayat is a trusted steward of complex and valuable resources. As an investment banker, he approaches his work with all the care and consideration for which they call. He operates from a place of respect first and foremost. He has previously overseen more than $1.6 billion AUM, and he has achieved more than $6 billion in IB deals. Connecting with his team members and with his investors personally, he is constantly keeping his stakeholders’ needs into account and communicating precisely the benefits that everyone stands to gain from his decisions. Because of his prudence as an investor, the funds that he has overseen have grown consistently and impressively. It is this magic touch that in part makes Phoenix Venture Partners such an exciting movement forward.

Recognizing Mr. Khayat’s unprecedented ability to interpret and then act on the market, multiple boards of directors have invited him to sit among their ranks, so that he can provide them with the direction and insight inherent to his worldview as an investor. His expertise and advanced, finely-tuned knowledge of markets are positioning the Phoenix Venture Partners Limited team to identify and fortify the unicorns of tomorrow.

Faris Al-Obaid, M.A., is the Co-Founder and Director of Phoenix Venture Partners. He is an entrepreneur and investor with more than fifteen years of experience leading impactful, long-term projects. His service has extended throughout the MENA region, operating and contributing at the highest levels of impactful, fast-paced organizations. Repeatedly, he has taken on greater responsibilities, each time exceeding stakeholders’ expectations by delivering top-quality leadership and foresight, from his successful advisement of Kuwait on the New Kuwait 2035 vision to his major contributions on key national undertakings. From a young age and for more than ten years, he has participated in and experienced the highest level of government negotiations and processes. During this time, he learned to speak French fluently and also to facilitate deals neatly. He has proven his ability as a strategist, masterful at leveraging the large network he has built. He is a professional who recognizes the reality of the challenges in front of him and then proceeds toward them confidently, applying the solutions that he has devised based on what he has seen work in the business world already.

Most recently, Mr. Al-Obaid has taken a leading position at Tamara, a BNPL leader in the MENA region, successfully handling the regulatory guidelines for four countries through a transition from the startup stages to official oversight in two countries. A skilled organizer, he has navigated both the public and private sectors. He has on more than one occasion transformed projects from concept to execution. At every step, he is cognizant of all the details affecting the team and willing to take action whenever necessary. He has, in addition to managing and overseeing projects, founded multiple organizations of his own. His creative thinking and problem solving have led to improved productivity and engagement for his teams. As a matter of course, he pushes those around him to reach the goals that they have set and then to go beyond them. He accomplishes this through the cohesiveness of his planning.

Mr. Al-Obaid imbues Phoenix Venture Partners Limited with structure and innovation that fit the fund’s thesis perfectly. He is an early investor in multiple startups, including a rising US startup that is undergoing fast growth. Because of his capacity for seeing past the obvious, he is adept at capturing the greatest value possible. He is willing to go after his boldest ideas with ferocity and commitment.

Dr. Mussaad M. Al-Razouki is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Phoenix Venture Partners. He is a seasoned analytical strategist and investor operating globally. With more than twenty years of experience, he has served in multiple executive roles, his most notable results coming in his business development work. A scientific luminary as well as a great business mind, he is able to understand comprehensively the freshest and most promising new business concepts in medicine and technology. With his support, several high-profile funds and partnerships have expanded rapidly, one such fund even growing to encompass more than $1 billion in assets under management.

In all of the roles that he has taken on, Dr. Al-Razouki has sought out and driven forward unique innovations intended to serve large numbers of people and to raise the quality of life throughout the MENA region. He has exhibited a singular focus on improving life for others. Deeply compassionate, and with the intelligence and the persistence to turn his compassion into action, he sees the bigger picture when it comes to medicine, science, and entrepreneurship. In every field that he has entered, he has matured into an expert. He glimpses the promise of achievement, what is within reach through diligent study, and lets nothing come between him and the goal at hand. His experience with sovereign wealth funds is rare even among high-performers in the field.

Because Dr. Al-Razouki is a part of Phoenix Ventures Partners Limited, the fund is better positioned to deliver returns for stakeholders and to identify the next great investment opportunities of tomorrow. His mind is unrivaled in its acuity and its flexibility, perfect in our collaborations for making the world a better place through meaningful capitalization.