investment firm established in 2014.
Investments team
Administrative Manager
Administrative Assistant
Personal Assistant to the Chairman
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CEO and Chairman
Mr. Waleed AlBanawi has over 25 years experience as Vice Chairman, Director and C-suite Executive of a diversified manufacturing corporation in based in Saudi Arabia and spanning the MENA region. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the operations of the entire group in addition to various senior corporate functions.
Mr. AlBanawi is now an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, spending most of his time as Chairman and CEO of JISR Investment Group, and now more recently Banvest Group.
Mr. AlBanawi is a Board member of numerous organizations and non-profits, including Education for Employment Foundation, Ashoka Arab World, Founding Board member, INJAZ Saudi, International Institute for Strategic Studies, member of the advisory council (MENA) for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. His participation in these organizations influenced him to become a vocal advocate of education development to address the workforce skill set gap in the Arab world. He’s a Founding Board member of two leading digital start-ups, Reserveout and Waitrr and an Entrepreneur-in- Residence at INSEAD Business School. He also served as Regional Chairman of YPO Middle East/ North Africa
Mr. AlBanawi received his BA in Managerial Studies and Political Science from Rice University and his AMP and IDP from INSEAD in FontaineBleau
Managing Partner
Omar Albanawi is managing partner at Banvest. He leads overall investment strategy in addition to overseeing both public and private equity investment efforts. Before joining Banvest, Omar was an investment banking summer associate at J.P. Morgan in New York. Prior to that, he was principal at JISR Investment Group where he led investments in the technology and consumer space. Omar started his career at Deloitte Corporate Finance before joining Hassana Investment Company.
Omar received a Bachelor’s in Finance from Syracuse University and an M.B.A from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Managing Partner
Yossuf Albanawi is a managing partner at Banvest, a boutique family office that invests in an array of different asset classes across North America and Europe. Yossuf leads venture investments and operations at Banvest. On the venture side, Yossuf is passionate about finding opportunities in sectors that have been positively impacted by the rise in digitalization, including healthcare and finance. He sits on the board of Waitrr, an F&B tech company with operations in Singapore, Europe, and Asia, as well as Pilleve, a digital health company that seeks to improve medication safety and compliance, which he founded in 2017. Yossuf is also an investor in Bitoasis, the first crypto exchange platform in MENA that recently raised a $30M series B round from notable investors across MENA and Silicon Valley. Yossuf is a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur (2019) as well as a TED speaker (Riyadh 2019) with a focus on advocating for better mental health solutions and treatments. Yossuf is a fellow at Halcyon incubator, a nonprofit that seeks to empower social entrepreneurs across the world. When not “working”, Yossuf enjoys competing in Triathlons (he completed the iron man 70.3) as well as playing tennis and enjoying long runs. He is currently based between London, Dubai, and Saudi.
Administrative Manager
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Administrative Assistant
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Personal Assistant to the Chairman
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