Director & Chairman
Freyan Avari joined at R.B.Avari Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd in 2001 after he graduated from King College London with a degree in Business Management. After spending the first few years rotating through various departments within the company learning about the industry he took his first management role as head of Marketing in 2007. He was elevated to the position of CEO in 2011 and then Managing Director in 2015 which is the role he currently holds. Freyan has helped to make RBAE a leading agrochemical distribution company in Pakistan with the sole aim of providing the best possible solutions for their customers. Under his guidance the company has evolved from being a family run business to being a fully professional organization which has helped the company grow faster. Freyan is also the CEO of R.B. Avari & Company which is a holding company for the families real estate assets. He has successfully managed to develop multiple industrial warehouse and office space projects over the past 10 years. Freyan is also a majority shareholder of Eugene Road Services (Pvt) Ltd which is a fleet management company with the major purpose of providing vehicles to mobile based booking platforms. He has been director of the EFG Hermes Pakistan Limited since 2018.
Business Address: SASI Arcade, Room # 4, 2nd Floor, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan.
Director
Mr. Johannes Gunnell joined Maris Capital as a Partner in 2010. Following Maris Africa Fund’s conversion into an investment holding company in 2014, he became interim CFO for Maris Ltd. Johannes now sits as the Commercial Director of Maris Ltd and is responsible for new investments, corporate actions and follow-on expansions across Maris’ 20 investee companies. He also sits on the board and heads the audit committee of Tatepa, a listed Tanzanian tea and avocado producer, and Equator Energy, the largest Commercial & Industrial Solar provider in EastAfriqa.
Previously, he spent seven years at UBS Investment Bank working as a Director in global equities in London and Amsterdam, serving European and international clients. He had a particular focus on socially responsible investments and was involved in the listing of various renewables companies, including the largest European IPO in 2008, EDP Renovaveis. Johannes graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Magdalen College, Oxford. Currently he has been director of the EFG Hermes Pakistan Limited since 2018.
Business Address: Maris Capital, 20 Little Britain, London EC1A 7DH, United Kingdom.
Director
Ms. Sarah Maja is the head of Frontier Equity Sales Trading at EFG Hermes. She has 18 years experience in Financial Services across Trading and Investment Banking covering some of the largest global institutional investors in Sub Sahara Africa and South East Asia. Over the last 8yrs Sarah has managed trading teams, interacted with regulators and other stakeholders in key SSA markets such as Nigeria and Kenya. Before joining EFG Hermes, Sarah was instrumental in setting up the Frontier platform at Exotix Africa and served as Head of the Nigerian Business. She has been director of the EFG Hermes Pakistan Limited since 2018.
Business Address: Suite 1104, Boulevard Plaza, Tower-1, Dubai, UAE.
Director
A 20-year veteran with EFG Hermes Holding, Mr. Mohamed Ebeid is currently the Co-CEO of the Investment Bank, a position he took in 2016 with a mandate to grow the business on the sell side and to expand its product offering in multiple continents. Since then, he has successfully built out the Firm’s Frontier Business with on-the-ground operations in four different continents, giving clients access to more than 75 markets around the world. He has also led the development of the Firm’s structured products platform, which has pulled in trades worth c. USD2 billion in its first two years of inception, and on the creation of the Fixed-Income business, which began operations in 2018.
Mr. Ebeid began his career with the firm in 1999 in the Brokerage division as part of the High-Net-Worth team and has since held numerous positions within the Firm, the most recent prior to his current post being Co-Head of Brokerage where he managed over just two years to restructure the business and streamline its activities all while boosting profitability. He held the post of Head of Institutional Sales beginning 2006 where he managed to add GCC institutional clients and sovereign wealth funds to the Firm’s client base. He led the team on every single ECM transaction that had taken place under his tenure, raising more than USD20 billion in ECM transactions across jurisdictions. Mr. Ebeid was also an integral part of EFG Hermes’s Institutional Desk, to head an endeavour to expand the Firm’s Western institutional client base and further root the business in its home market of Egypt. During that time, he was part of the team executing the Firm’s expansion plan in the MENA region and directing its capabilities in terms of research and corporate access to Western institutional clients to execute on-the-ground and offshore trades through the Firm’s brokerage network. He has been director of the EFG Hermes Pakistan Limited since 2018.
Business Address: Level 6, West wing, DIFC, The Gate, Dubai, UAE.
Director
Mr. Fayyaz is one of the partners of Falaknaz Properties/Group, a family owned firm/group engaged in the business of real estate development and a member of Association of Builders and Developers. He has a vast experience in construction and development industry comprising of over 18 years. He has expertise in sales, marketing, advertisement and architectural designs. He has attended various seminars/workshops abroad and also represented the firm/group on various forums both within the country and abroad. Mr. Fayyaz holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He has been director of the EFG Hermes Pakistan Limited since 2015.
Business Address: Suite No. M-6, Falaknaz Arcade, opposite Airport Police Station, Shara-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan.
The Directors may be contacted at Office No. 904, 9th Floor, Emerald Tower, Plot No. G-19, Block-5, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan.
