Ms. El-Ghazaly has over fourteen years of experience in the Egyptian financial services industry. She currently serves as the Egypt Country Advisor at Mediterrania Capital Partners; a EUR 450Mn AUM Africa-focused private equity firm with HQ in Barcelona, Spain. She is also an investment committee member at SANAD ESF II, a KfW-initiated, Luxembourg-based, impact investing private equity fund investing in regional MSME-focused financial institutions and fintech startups. She is also an independent board member at Middle East Glass Manufacturing Company; Africa’s second largest container glass manufacturer.
Ms. El-Ghazaly has led and participated in the successful consummation of over 25 M&A, ECM and debt transactions with c. USD 1.4Bn in transaction value; predominantly in Egypt. She was the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Pharos Holding for Financial Investments and the Executive Director at HC Securities and Investment as well as a Board Member at HC Brokerage.
Ms. El-Ghazaly has been recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Power Businesswomen (2020) and Top 100 Most Influential Women (2018) in the Middle East and by Financial News London as one of the Top 50 Women in Middle East Finance in 2019. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School and a Bachelor of Economics from Cairo University.