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Tayeb Dajani
Khalil Jaouni

 


Tayeb Dajani (Founder & Managing Partner)

Tayeb Dajani has multinational and multifaceted academic and practical experiences, and through his diverse positions with various organizations, he has gained a considerable amount of skill and experience in executive management, Islamic and Corporate Finance strategic planning, entrepreneurship and team building.

Tayeb Dajani is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1986, and the American University, Washington DC, in 1989, where he obtained his B.S. and Masters degrees in Applied Economics and International Finance respectively. He received the prestigious Hall of Nations scholarship during the Masters Program. In addition, Tayeb Dajani was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in 1997, where he researched and lectured on the core issues of Islamic Commercial law at the Comparative Legal Studies Program in the leading Harvard Law School. He also participated in classes related to global capital markets at Harvard Business School's MBA program.

In relation to the multifaceted practical experiences and entrepreneurship, Tayeb Dajani worked as a freelance writer and journalist in Washington D.C. while a college student in his teens and early twenties. He published extensively in leading Arabic newspapers and magazines including Al-Ahram Al-Iqtissadi, in Egypt, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat in London, Al-Watan and Al-Qabas in Kuwait, Al-Khaleej in the UAE, Al-Shaab in Jordan and Kul Al-Arab in Paris among others. He covered oil and global economic issues primarily as well as other strategic and international affairs.

After graduation in 1989, Tayeb Dajani established the a nucleus of a training center in Cairo, Egypt, where he lectured and prepared the training material for students in economics, commerce and business courses as well as for professional's continuing education and skills enhancement. Also, he joined Al-Dar Consultancy in Cairo as senior consultant, where he carried out financial feasibility studies, marketing research, cash flow analysis, forecasting balance sheets and income statements for expanding and newly established projects. At Al-Dar, he also co-managed the growing Intellectual Property Registration business and became familiar with IP laws and regulations in various Arab countries.

In March 1991, Tayeb Dajani joined the multinational Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia as an economist, where he carried out assignments in the Trade Development Department, Projects and Operations Department as well as the Unit Investment Fund. At the Islamic Development Bank, he became well versed in the financing modes and with the applied aspects of Islamic economics. He was also responsible for writing the weekly Capital and Money Markets proprietary report. During his tenure at the IDB, Tayeb Dajani joined the Association of Investment Management and Research (AIMR) in the United States.

In August 1994, Kuwait Investment Projects Company, the leading investment group in Kuwait, offered Tayeb Dajani an executive senior management position to establish and manage an Islamic finance and investment department. As a result of his and colleagues efforts, the United Islamic Global Equity Fund was successfully established and placed in the Kuwait market.

In April 1996, the National Bank of Kuwait, the most profitable bank in the Middle East and the largest in Kuwait, approached Tayeb Dajani to join as a Senior Manager to establish a specialized products unit. Tayeb Dajani was successful in introducing Shari'a compatible financial instruments in co-operation with the treasury, corporate finance, and asset management departments as well as the bank's subsidiary in the United Kingdom. The flotation of Al-Kawthar Islamic mutual funds was the most successful venture in terms of profitability and market penetration of all funds in the history of the State of Kuwait.

In 1998, Tayeb Dajani succeeded in promoting and founding Al-Mal Islamic Company with fifty million dollars in paid-up capital. He assumed the General Manager position upon establishment and steered the company into profitability from the first year of operating as a boutique investment banking institution in Kuwait replicating the Swiss private banking model. Tayeb Dajani resigned from Al-Mal as a General Manager in August 2001 and opted to establish Atlas Internatioanl W.L.L.

 


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