Kingdom Holding is a multi-billion dollar investment giant, founded by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has a vast investment portfolio facilitating an economic strategy that is a key component of the Saudi Vision 2030.
The fund is a financier of the kingdom’s biggest firms including Citigroup, Kingdom Schools, Kingdom Hotel Investments, Flynas, Four Seasons, Uber, Careem and Twitter.
Revealed here are the nine board members and executives leading the kingdom’s investment giant:
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
Chairman
The man and vision behind one of the world’s most successful international holding companies, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), has been named twice by Forbes magazine as “one of the smartest and most creative investors in the world.” Such a portrayal encapsulates the remarkable achievements of His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, founder and chairman of one of the world’s most successful and diversified financial investment enterprises.
Prince Alwaleed was born in 1955. He is the grandson of two remarkable, and in some ways legendary, historical leaders, King Abdulaziz Al Saud, founder and first ruler of Saudi Arabia, and Riad El Solh, an iconic statesman in Lebanon’s drive for independence and its first Prime Minister. The uncommon achievements of those two personages must have loomed large in shaping Prince Alwaleed’s propensity towards excellence, as became evident in his school years. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Menlo College in California in l979, and his Masters in Social Sciences with Honors from Syracuse University in New York in 1985. In recognition of his business and civic accomplishments, Prince Alwaleed has been the recipient of numerous honors and accolades from many organizations, societies, monarchs and heads of state. These include (24) Honorary Doctorates from universities in the the United States of America, Great Britain, Scotland, Korea, Egypt, Malaysia, Ghana, Palestine, Philippines, Tunisia, Uganda, Indonesia, Hungary, Jordan, Australia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Spain, Bulgaria, and Madagascar. The citations accompanying these honors particularly point to his financial contributions to education, international understanding, coexistence, and to the provision of assistance to the victims of natural disasters, as well as to the poor and needy, irrespective of nationality, race or creed.
Founded in 1980, KHC is a publicly traded company, listed on Tadawul (the Saudi Stock Exchange) in 2007. KHC is one of the world’s most successful and diversified business organizations, highly respected in the field of investments and recognized as an elite player in the Arabian Gulf region, and internationally.
Eng. Talal Ibrahim Almaiman
Chief Executive Officer
Eng. Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman is currently the CEO of Kingdom Holding Company after leading the Development and Domestic Division of the group for many years.
Since Eng. Talal joined the KHC team in 1996, he is responsible for overseeing KHC’s investment and operations, as well as identifying future private and public investment opportunities locally, regionally, and globally.
In addition to being a member of the KHC Board of Directors, as well as a member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Board of all domestic subsidiaries, Eng. Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman is also a Board Member and Executive Committee Member of National Industrialization Company, a multi-billion dollar publicly listed petrochemical diversified investment company.
Eng. Talal is a Board Member and Executive Committee member of National Air Services (NAS Holding), leading aviation company owning NasJet originally NetJets Middle East (NJME) and NAS Airlines, one of the leading regional low-cost carrier. Eng. Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman is Deputy Chairman of Banque Saudi Fransi Board of Directors.Eng. Talal is a Board Member and Executive Committee member of National Air Services (NAS Holding), leading aviation company owning NasJet originally NetJets Middle East (NJME) and NAS Airlines, one of the leading regional low-cost carrier. Eng. Talal Ibrahim Al Maiman is Deputy Chairman of Banque Saudi Fransi Board of Directors.
He serves also as a Chairman of the Board of Kingdom Real Estate Investment Company (KRED), the domestic arm of KHC. Eng. Talal is Chairman of Kingdom Investment and Development Company (KIDC), a newly formed closed joint-stock company overseeing assets above ($1) billion. Furthermore, he is appointed Chairman of Five Capital Fund I, a newly formed private equity fund with leading sponsors KHC and the French Sovereign Fund’s investment arm, CDC International Capital (CDC). In addition to being a Board Member of Five Capital Advisors (DIFC), a regulated investment advisory firm jointly owned with CDC.
He has served previously as a Board Member of Savola, a multi-billion industrial and retail listed company and Saudi Research and Marketing Group, a leading listed media company in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Prior to joining KHC, Eng. Talal was Director of Information Systems at Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (1986-1996) and Director of Operations and Maintenance at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior (1979-1986).
Dr. Lama Al Sulaiman
Independent Board Member, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors
Dr. Lama Al Sulaiman is a Shareholder and a Board Member of Rolaco Holdings, KSA and LUX, and a board member of the committee for the development of Jabal Al Laith. Currently she is a vice chair of Kingdom Holdings Investments in KSA, and a member of Coutts Bank advisory board, UK, and prior to that she was a board member of Club Med, France, and a former board member of Foras Investment, Saudi Arabia.
In 2021, she joined the Saudi Tennis Federation as a board member, and she was a board member of Saudi General Entertainment Authority between 2016 and 2021.
For the past 10 years, she has been actively involved in a wide range of non-profit organizations in KSA, where she led the Saudi delegation at ILO to represent the employers Group, and participated in L20 and B20 in France, Mexico, Turkey, Australia, Germany, and Argentina, and a member of the B20 Executive committee hosted in Saudi Arabia, and now she is a member of Employment and Education Task Force. She is an advisory board member of Effat University, and was a member of the fundraising campaign board in King’s college London. She was the Vice Chair and a Board Member of Jeddah Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and she was a board member of the Khadijah Bint Khuwailed Lobbying center for women.
She holds a PhD in health and nutrition from King’s College of London.
Abdulmajeed Ahmed Alhaqbani
Board Member, Non-Executive Director
Mr. Abdulmajeed Alhaqbani, is graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals with Bachelor degree in Finance in 2004, in addition to several specialized courses in accounting, credit and financial analysis, risk analysis and asset management. During his career he managed the Assets in the local investment portfolio for the Public Investment Fund in 2018, as well as numerous leading positions in banks, private sector of local and international origins, including Vice Chairman of Qassim Cement Co. between 2019 and 2020. He held several positions at HSBC Saudi Arabia, including: General Manager for Asset Management Dept. between 2016 and 2018, and Head of Investment at the Asset Dept. between 2016 and 2017, Head of the Procurement Research between 2014 and 2016, Senior Research Analyst between 2012 and 2014, and Director of Equity Research between 2008 and 2012. He also worked as a Senior Credit Analyst at the Saudi Industrial Development Fund between 2005 and 2008.
Reem Mohamed Asaad
Independent Board Member
Seventeen years of experience in Financial Management and Invest Funds, with many published articles in economics.
Worked in the Financial and Investment Sector for the development of product investment and individual investments management.
She lectured Finance and Financial Markets subject in Dar Alhekmah University, Jeddah.
In 2017, she joined Maaden Co. as a first Saudi lady to chair the Shareholders Relations. Currently, she chairs the Shareholders Relations in Al-Taaunia Co.
Passionate about financial and investment awareness for Arabic speakers in “Reem`s Advice” on Twitter.
Participated in many events as a spoke person in international forums and conferences in women financial empowerment.
Sarmad Nabil Zok
Chairman and CEO of Kingdom Hotel Investments
Sarmad Zok is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kingdom Hotel Investments (KHI) headquartered in Dubai, UAE and a non-executive director on the boards of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, AccorHotels, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts Management, BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust plc, and Kingdom Holding Company. Mr. Zok is an active member of the boards of the hotel management companies he sits on, being directly engaged in strategy, product, operations/guest experience, growth, and value creation.
In 2006, Mr. Zok led KHI on its Initial Public Offering on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (the predecessor to NASDAQ Dubai) and the London Stock Exchange. Since a successful take-private in 2010, he has headed KHI’s accomplished hotel investment management team in Dubai in managing an integrated luxury hospitality investment portfolio across the US, Europe, as well as growing and developing markets in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In 2016, he successfully led the KHI team on the sale and merger of Fairmont Raffles with AccorHotels, one of the largest recent transactions in the luxury hospitality sector.
During his early career, Mr. Zok worked at HVS International and Hilton International. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management from the University of Surrey and a Master’s of Arts in Property Valuation and Law from City University Business School in London.
Adel Abdulaziz Alabdulsalam
Executive Director for Finance and Administration
Adel Alabdulsalam holds a bachelor degree of accounting and Master of Business Administration with honor; he is a multidiscipline professional with vast experience in Finance, corporate governance, information systems, strategy and business development, and has a track record of accomplishments over his 20 years of working experience in local and international conglomerates.
Tamim Bassam Jabr
Executive Director for International Investments
Tamim is a seasoned executive with more than 18 years of investment banking experience, prior to joining KHC, he spent 16 years at Deutsche Bank in Riyadh and London most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Securities Saudi Arabia where he led the development of Deutsche Banks’s investment banking and wealth management business in Saudi Arabia.
Tamim has also worked as a Corporate Finance Executive at Capital Trust LTD a leading private equity boutique in the UK. He has held several board memberships including Deutsche Securities and Deutsche Gulf Finance. Tamim has a BA in communication from Emerson Collage and MA in multinational commerce from Boston University.
Nada S. Alateegi
Executive Director for Domestic Projects
Alateegi was one of the first ladies’ team that joined KHC over 13 years ago and held various positions including executive manager for humanitarian and development projects at KHC for five years, in 2000 she transferred to Kingdom Center and became part of the planning and development team that established Kingdom Center that was inaugurated by King Abdullah in 2003.
She held various other positions including manager of Ladies Kingdom. Additionally, she was a also a representative of Kingdom Center at many forums, events regionally and internationally in Dubai, Singapore, the UK and the United States.
Hisham Suleiman Al Habib
Independent Board Member
Hisham is the Deputy Chairmen of Business Development and Executive Board Member of Dr. Suleiman Al Habib Medical Group. Hisham holds a bachelor’s degree in finance in Business Administration, from the American University of Sharjah. He was the Director of Business Development at Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, a board member of Asala Holding Company, a member of the Health Committee, Riyadh Chamber of Commerce, a member of the National Committee of Hospitals, and a member of Tharwat Foundation as family businesses since 2009.
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