Amer A. Mardam-Bey is Executive Vice President for Business Development & Project Management. With 22 plus year chronicle of success driving benchmark-setting growth and expansion for globally focused organizations, Amer has held a number of executive management positions in mature, start-up and turnaround corporate environments, delivering aggressive revenue growth and increased shareholder value.

With extensive international business background in multi-cultural environments, his experience extends to strategic operational planning and implementation, project development management, strategic alliances and marketing communications.

Amer has held a number of senior executive positions with Harris Corporation, AppTek, AEGIS and others, has a documented record of strong, decisive leadership expertise and has actively participated in the planning, development and launching of new enterprises and projects and has developed valued skills in PPM activities, venture capital funding and M & A transactions. He has also managed several international projects in Germany, Cuba, Moscow, Haiti, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Most recently he was the Senior Program Director for Harris Corporation, on The Iraqi Media Network, a $120 Million Television, Radio and Newspaper network centre. His responsibilities included overall project management including, construction, equipment integration and installation, logistics, security, training and site management for 31 locations throughout Iraq.

Amer holds a BA, in Management and Public Policy from New England College, New Hampshire, an MBA in Finance and International Marketing from The Kogod College of Business Administration, The American University, Washington D.C., has completed an Executive Leadership Program from the Wharton Business School, and is a Certified Project Manager from The Project Management Institute in Pennsylvania. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French.

Jonathan D. Strum, Esq. is General Counsel of Siraj Capital Ltd., and is Of Counsel to Patton Boggs, an international law firm based in Washington DC, with offices in New York, New Jersey, Dallas, Denver, Anchorage, Doha, Qatar and Northern Virginia. Jonathan has worked as both a lawyer and a principle in numerous transactions in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His legal practice includes a broad range of topics including, World Bank Development projects, Asset Backed Securitisation, Shariah finance, and project finance.

Jonathan has also served as counsel to several investment funds including venture capital funds, Shariah compliant funds, and conventional investment funds. For more than ten years Jonathan was an Adjunct Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, at the Securitisation World MENA 2006 in Dubai in April 2006 and the Islamic Real Estate Finance Conference also in Dubai in December 2005. He is a regular commentator and analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and CSPAN. Jonathan also serves as a board member and advisor to several philanthropic and non-profit organizations focused on peace, dialogue, the environment and global health issues.

Christopher R. Smith is Director Business Development of Siraj Capital Ltd. Christopher has over 20 years of experience as an international and domestic financial professional concentrating primarily on Securitization and structured finance, both conventional and Shariah-compliant transactions (Sukuk), mergers and acquisitions and business development. Most recently, Christopher was the US business development liaison for the first ever S&P rated Shariah-compliant gas backed US securitization, the US$ 165 million East Cameron Gas Sukuk. In 2004 Christopher co-founded Renewable Energy Funding, LLC (REF). REF provides financial advisory and business development services to the renewable energy industry in connection with arranging senior debt, subordinated debt and/or equity financing for renewable energy projects as well as oil & gas transactions.

Christopher served as a consultant and subsequently the North American Channel Partner of BSEC-SA focusing on conventional and Shariah-compliant securitization and structured finance transactions in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. From 1998 through 2004, Christopher served as CEO of Asset Capital Finance N.A., LLC, an Atlanta based business consulting, asset based lending and private equity financial advisory firm. Christopher assisted firms in business development, raising growth capital, mergers, acquisitions and reverse mergers into public entities and providing debt facilities in the hotel and resort industry.

Eoghan M.P. McMahon Vice President – Hospitality & Real Estate. Eoghan brings a wealth of experience to the company with an extensive network of hospitality personnel and an in-depth understanding of both corporate and consumer capabilities across the region. Prior to joining SIRAJ Capital, Eoghan was based in Ho Chi Minh City as Senior Operations Manager with Vina Capital, a leading AIM listed fund management financial institution involved in hospitality asset management and development, real estate & infrastructural development and private equity activities throughout Vietnam and the region, responsible for the evaluation of potential business development opportunities and the realization of hospitality development projects involving Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Accor Hotels, Minor International PCL and a team of top international designers, architects, surveyors and construction professionals.

While in Vietnam Eoghan also founded and managed a boutique Hong Kong-based entrepreneurial venture in the Hospitality consultancy sector catering to small to medium hospitality and catering operators.

Eoghan studied Hotel and Catering Management in Ireland and started his career working for Hyatt Hotels & Resort USA in San Francisco and was later transferred as part of the pre-opening team to Grand Hyatt Muscat, Oman. After a successful opening and operational period Eoghan moved to Dubai and joined the Jumeirah Group, The Jumeirah Beach Hotel. After gaining a further 5-star international experience he accepted an offer to relocated to Hong Kong and joined the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG). With over 10 years international management experience in hospitality, development and asset management Eoghan is now based in Dubai, U.A.E.

Khalid has extensive experience within the world's leading banking groups. He has been Managing Director of the Financial Institutions Group at Bank of America in the UK. He also worked at Citibank in the UK, Turkey, USA, Belgium, Greece & Pakistan, his roles included Country Operations Officer and Vice President Positions.

His areas of banking expertise span over Operations, IT, Treasury Management, Risk Management, Financial Control and B2B e-Business Solution. In addition, he has held a number of key Business Development roles in both Islamic and traditional banking products & services, transaction banking and capital market instruments.