Team Background

Suketu Sanghvi

Management Team

Suketu is a veteran in finance industry with over 32 years of experience. He is a rank holder Chartered Accountant, rank holder Company Secretary (2nd rank on all India basis) and was ranked first in Computer Systems in Mumbai University upon graduation. He also has a diploma in computer programming.

He started his career in investment banking by managing venture and angel capital investments, executing corporate finance transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, managing ipo’s and rights public issues and then moved on to the banking side doing credit trading, debt underwriting, syndications and derivatives. He executed many innovative and ‘first type’ financial transactions and was part of a team that won multiple Euromoney awards (the most prestigious in the industry) while working in India, Singapore and Hong Kong.

He then become a co-founder, senior managing director and chief investment officer of an investment advisory and asset management company regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority with a hedge fund strategy to invest in special situations/ distressed assets. After liquidation of the fund, he returned back to India in the year 2014 and became a very active investor in global capital markets and ideated, co-founded tech start-ups in India. During his marquee career he has advised sovereigns such as central bank and ministry of finance and advised sovereign wealth funds, some of the biggest corporate and financial institutions globally and worked on multiple financial products in financial markets in all the domains such as Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, Structured Markets such as securitisations, project finance, derivatives and Treasury Markets such as credit trading, equity trading and derivative trading.

Mohamad Sotoudeh

Mohammad holds a Masters Degree in Management from Harvard University and a B.Sc. in Engineering and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts and lives in New York.

Mohammad has more than 30 years of experience at senior levels in global banking and capital markets. Highly accomplished banker with extensive MENA and US track record.

His focus has been sovereign and corporate debt financings and investments, fixed income, credit trading and structured finance across the globe from the U.S. to the Middle Eastern and Asian markets. Prior to co-founding Essdar Capital group Mohammad served in senior roles in the United States and the MENA region in organisations like Citigroup, Daiwa Securities, JP Morgan and Nomura Securities amongst others.

Mohammad has a unique insight in managing complex global transactions for Sovereign and corporate financings and investments involving G7 and Emerging Markets.

Mohammad along with his colleague Suketu Sanghvi and some of the most prominent families from the UAE set up Essdar Capital Group in the year 2007, just after the first phase of global financial crisis started and together they set up one of the most successful investment advisory and asset management platform in the special situations space regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority up to the year 2012. Thereafter, Essdar Capital Group decided to concentrate on niche advisory services such as Investment Consultancy, Management Consultancy and Strategy Advisory Services for tech start-ups and committing themselves to innovation and environmental/ social objectives.

Antony Hatter

Antony lives in United Kingdom after living in the Middle East for many decades (Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates). A highly experienced Global Markets Banking professional with an extensive and consistent proven MENA and UK regional track record.

Experienced in establishing and developing coverage models at senior / principal level predominately focusing on; Sovereign Wealth Funds, Central Banks, Financial Institutions, large Regional Corporate clients and family offices.

Competencies include solid product knowledge; Financial Markets, DCM, M&A, Real Estate, Private Equity, Private Banking, Asset Management and Wholesale Banking activities.

Experience includes over 30 years in the capital markets working with highly rated institutions like Standard Chartered Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, Alawwal Bank/ Saudi Hollandi Bank and Credit Lyonnaise.

Heading Global Markets and Origination and Distribution coverage across the MENA region and the UK with an extremely strong network coupled with an entrepreneurial approach to anticipate business and product needs in an ever-changing market environment.

Antony also has significant experience in the real estate property markets of United Kingdom and Middle East. He is a Managing Director at Hive Property & Investments Ltd.