AbdelJaber brings 28 years of global board and management experience with extensive expertise in alternative asset management and a particular focus on the GCC.

Currently, Ramzi is a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) working mainly with the Principal Investors and Private Equity (PIPE) practice worldwide.

He is also a Non-executive member of the Investment Committee (NED) of the Investment and Development Office (IDO) mandated with generating sustainable financial returns and driving economic growth for Ras Al Khaima and its people (Ras Al Khaimah’s investment arm).

Ramzi serves as an Independent Director on the board of the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance (HBTF) in Jordan, where he chairs HBTF’s Risk Management Committee and has chaired HBTF’s Compliance Committee in the past. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the IT Governance Committee. HBTF is a publicly-listed company operating in multiple geographies.

Ramzi is the Vice Chair of the Regional Board of Directors of INJAZ Al Arab, one of the largest NGOs in the Arab world and one of the 100 largest NGOs worldwide reaching ~1 million youth across the Arab world annually. He is also a former board member of INJAZ Bahrain. He serves as an independent member of the board of directors at the Microfund for Women (MFW), the oldest and largest private not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs in Jordan, where he is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

Ramzi also serves as an Advisor to Lesha Bank LLC, an independent bank authorized by the Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority and a listed entity on the Qatar Stock Exchange. Ramzi’s 19-year tenure at Investcorp Holdings, a global alternative asset manager with $52 billion of assets under management, saw him serve in various senior executive roles including most recently as Senior Managing Director and Global Chief Administrative Officer. Other roles in the firm included CEO and Chairman of Investcorp Investments LLC (Qatar), Global Head of Business Development, and Chief of Staff for Placement and Relationship Management. Ramzi was a member of the firm’s Investment Council and Operating Committee. He also chaired the firm’s Human Resources Council, Internal Audit Council, and Technology Advisory Council.

Ramzi is an overseas member of the UK Institute of Directors and a lifetime Honorary Fellow of the GCC Board Directors Institute (GCC BDI). He has served on a number of boards in the past including Hydrasun (Scotland-based market leader in the provision of integrated fluid transfer, power and control solutions to the oil and gas sector) where he was a member of the Renumeration and Nomination Committee and Mercury Capital Advisors (US-based full service placement agent advising and raising private equity, credit, infrastructure, and real estate funds from institutional investors globally).

Ramzi has worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.’s Silicon Valley Office in Palo Alto, CA. He has also worked with Accenture (Andersen Consulting) in the Middle East. Ramzi holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also holds a B.Sc. in Computer Information Systems (with Honors and Highest Distinction) from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington.