Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mehmet is the founder & CEO of Imaad Holding, Mehmet has over 10 years of experience in capital markets, structured finance, intermediation and trading. After graduating from Collège St Viateur d'Abidjan with a BAC in the C (Scientific) series, he went on to study at the International University of Grand-Bassam in 2007.
In 2009, he flew to the United States where he was admitted to Georgia State University in Atlanta, where in 2011 he obtained an Honours Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Actuarial Sciences, with a major in finance. Actuarial Sciences, with a major in Finance.
In 2012, he began his professional career as an Algorithmic Trader at SMB Capital, a trading firm investing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street New York.
In 2013, he was appointed Director of Business Development Africa at E&I Global Consultants, an intermediation company specialising in the trading of oil and mining products based in Arlington, Virginia. based in Arlington, Virginia.
At the end of 2013, he returned to Côte d'Ivoire and in 2014 was appointed Senior Trader at the Conseil Café-Cacao the regulatory body for the coffee and cocoa industries in Côte d'Ivoire.
In 2016, he founded BlackPearl SA, which later became BlackPearl Financial Group Ltd, an investment bank specialising in the structuring and financing of infrastructure projects in Africa. infrastructure projects in Africa, based in London, UK, with representative offices in offices in Abidjan & Nairobi.
Partner, Executive Vice-President
A product of the Ivorian school system, in particular the Université F.
Houphouet-Boigny d'Abidjan and the company, Henri is a business lawyer and banker with
and banker with 20 years' professional experience in several sectors
After learning the banking business Bank of Africa CI from 2004 to 2009, where he held the positions of Legal Officer and Legal Officer - Account Manager. Lawyer - Account Manager, he was Legal Adviser at Access Bank CI from 2010 to 2012, then General Counsel, CSR and
Ethics of Orabank CI and its branches in the WAEMU from 2014 to 2018; As a lawyer, Henri has also worked for several companies in the electricity, telecoms telecoms, industry, commerce and services in general, where he has held
in general, where he held positions as Legal Counsel, Head of Department and
Group General Counsel. Henri has a thorough understanding of
corporate governance in the OHADA area, securing conventional banking
securing operations in both conventional and Islamic banking.
Islamic finance. His cross-disciplinary knowledge of business law, finance and accounting
finance and accounting enable him to devise original and pragmatic
pragmatic solutions to the challenges faced by the companies and institutions
he advises. Henri is probably one of the few lawyers to have actively participated in the drafting of 03 draft bills and bills in 03 different sectors of activity sectors, namely Electricity in 2003, Telecoms in 2004 and Advertising
Advertising in 2021. His multi-sector experience
rapid understanding of the diverse issues facing the companies and
companies and institutions. Henri is also,
Environmental and Social Risk Analyst certified in November
2014 by the Financial Initiative of the United Nations Environment for the Protection of the Environment (UNEP FI).
Associée, Directrice Buisness Développement
Rym cumule plus de 10 années d’expérience dans le domaine du
développement de projets économiques, sociaux et politiques, du conseil
en stratégie de développement, de financement et de levées de fonds
Après son bac série ES
(économique et social) à Paris, elle s’oriente vers un Master en
communication et stratégie Marketing à La Sorbonne, et s’en suit un
Master en développement des territoires à Sciences-po Paris, en 2008.
Rym cumule une expérience
pluridisciplinaire dans divers secteurs, notamment l’immobilier (Icade
Property), l’énergie (Total), la finance (Union des Banques Arabes et
Françaises), et enfin dans l’Insertion & l’emploi, en tant que
chargée de mission pour le Fonds Social Européen
En 2012, Rym fait un retour aux
sources en Afrique, sa terre d’origine, où elle est consultante auprès
de structures étatiques et d’ associations en matière d’insertion des
jeunes et l’emploi, de leadership et d’entrepreneuriat, d’
autonomisation des femmes, d’autosuffisance alimentaire, mais aussi de
lutte contre l’extrémisme violent, la radicalisation, la pauvreté etc..
Rym went on to work with several organisations, including the G5 Sahel, and has taken part in several conferences of the African Union, UN Women, UNOWAS, UNDP and many others... and realised that Africa needs capital to help develop projects with development of projects with a strong social and economic impact, in all sectors, to combat injustice, political instability and migratory flows...
To do this, it has chosen to go to the source of the "sinews of war" by prospecting for the financing needed to build a better present and consolidate a better future for the people of Africa, and thus enable the continent and each country to benefit from sustainable development, with dignity in terms of education, training and a good way of life by developing key sectors to create growth, employment and raise a country's economic and social level;
It was with this in mind that the company into investment fund-raising in 2017, by setting up the firm creating Timeline Origine, a strategy and fundraising consultancy in Paris, Timeline Origine. Her career path has enabled her to build up an extensive network of contacts throughout Africa.
