Ahmed Mohamadein

Date of Birth: November 1962
 
Studies and certificates:

Cairo University, Bachelor of Commerce, 1984
 
Work experience :

National Bank for Development (NBD),

Cairo, Egypt, Assistant Manager, June, 1986 – March, 1992

Olympic Group (OG),
  Cairo, Egypt, Treasurer, Investor Relation Director and Board Member, March, 1992 – June, 2007
 
  • Established the consumer credit operation in B.Tech (the largest consumer finance program in Egypt), and the related debt back to back arrangements;
  • Executed the first IPO for a privately owned company in Egypt in 1997 for a total of EGP 25MM;
  • Executed the first private placement transaction for a privately owned company in Egypt by selling 4% of OG for institutional investors;
  • Executed another major private placement transaction for OG in both London & Cairo for a total of EGP 130MM;
  • Member of OG’s negotiating committee with the government to successfully acquire IDEAL (one of the pioneering and major privatization transactions);
  • Lead the valuation and due diligence process of IDEAL as part of the acquisition process by OG;
  • Lead the successful debt arrangement efforts to finance IDEAL’s acquisition in a pioneering LBO back in 1997;
  • Successful capital increase of OG credit balances and restructuring of the group companies which lead to considerable tax benefits;
  • Established the first privately owned holding company in Egypt (OGFI) in 1995;
  • Supervised the merger of five IDEAL subsidiaries with an EGP 757MM worth transaction;
  • Became an OG border member effective March 2003.
Egyptian Financial Consulting (EFC),
  Cairo, Egypt, Managing Partner, July, 2007 – Present
 
  • Execute the sale of the Egyptian Container Handling Company to Dubai Ports in a total transaction value of $4.2 billion, in cooperation with Ernst & Young;
  • Executed the acquisition of LORD group of companies by Soliman Holdings for a total of EGP 1.5 billion in conjunction with Magdy Hashish & partners;
  • Increase the paid in capital of Paradise Capital from EGP 5MM to EGP 1.5 billion and obtain the proper Capital Market Authority (CMA) approvals;
  • Executed Paradise Capital acquisition of 52% of Olympic Group with a total transaction value of EGP 1.5 billion;
  • Engineered & administered the spin-off of B.Tech (retail) and Namaa (real estate) from Olympic Group.