Saudi Arabia Overview

Ayad Alhadi is Partner, Client and Product Solutions at Apollo, where he is responsible for covering the Middle East. Prior to joining in 2010, Ayad was Managing Director in the Marketing Group at Galleon, and Managing Director in the Marketing Group at EIM before that.

Ayad is a graduate of Babson College.

Shaun Collins is a Partner based in Apollo's London office, he joined in 2013 as European Chief Financial Officer and progressed to CFO for Europe and Asia. In 2023 he took on additional responsibilities, becoming the COO for Europe and COO for ISGI. Previously, Shaun was with Goldman Sachs, most recently as Managing Director and European Corporate Controller. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Shaun spent four years with NatWest Bank and qualified as an accountant in 1992 with Ernst and Young.

Shaun received a degree in Chemistry from the University of Durham.

Bandar AlOmran is a Principal responsible for Middle East coverage for Institutional and Wealth clients. Based in Riyadh, he is responsible for coverage across family offices, banks, asset managers and other institutional investors. Prior to joining Apollo, he was the Head of Asset Management at The Family Office up to end of 2022, having held various positions at the firm from 2017 to then, across Bahrain, Riyadh and Zurich. Prior to that he was part of the Debt Capital Markets team in Bahrain at GIB Capital from 2014 to 2017. Bandar started his career as part of the public investment team focused on real asset at O-Cap Management in New York, NY.

He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Finance from Syracuse University, NY. Mr. AlOmran speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

Mr. Karim Hussain joined Apollo in 2014 in the Fund Controllers team and is responsible for the EPF Funds. Prior to that time, Karim was a Fund Controller at Anacap Financial Partners,  from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that, Karim worked in the audit team within the EY Asset Management department.

Nicholas Kinghan joined Apollo in 2019 in the Client Product and Strategies Group. Prior to that time, he was a member of the UK Business Development team at Wellington Management and also a member of the Global Wealth Management sales team at PIMCO in London.

He is a CFA charterholder and graduated from Queens University Belfast with a BSc degree in Finance.