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.