Youssef Kabbaj – the Finance Strategist with an Impressive Career and Successful Outcomes Youssef Kabbaj, currently serving as Managing Director at the Whitestones Partners has a spectacular career path over the past. He has served at decision making and strategy execution positions in top financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Exotix and GLG Partners, the latter being rebranded as Man GLG. At Goldman Sachs, the world’s topmost investment banking company, Youssef Kabbaj has a key role to play in its strategic initiatives as Head of the North Africa Coverage before he was moved to the position of Head of Strategic Coverage. Youssef Kabbaj served Goldman Sachs for more than three years where he built up his experience in a range of investment portfolio options including asset management, alternative finance, special situations and frontier markets. Setting up of a startup in 2014 Youssef Kabbaj Goldman Sachs former banker and few more seasoned professionals from other leading financial institutions including Merrill Lynch, McKinsey and J. P . Morgan later collaborated to set up an asset management firm with the name of Whitestones Partners in 2014. This merchant boutique bank has steadily been growing since then and been highly successful in the specific market niche that it competes. The successful growth of the firm made the board members to open up more branches of the firm in London and Rabat in addition to the one at Dubai to cater to the needs of global clients in various regions of the world. Providing strategic direction At the Whitestones Partners, Youssef Kabbaj is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company. He has been successful in providing the right strategic initiatives to the company, leveraging his experience as in-charge of the Sovereign Wealth Funds at Goldman Sachs. Whitestones Partners specializes in building solutions as per the specific needs of the investors. Their financial advisory services include capital markets, principal management, corporate and mergers & acquisitions. Whitestones Partners structure their investments in a way that are fully detained by the investors. They allow the investors to buy a share in the asset, usually through euro-clearable assets. Blogs by Youssef Kabbaj Youssef Kabbaj has done Masters in Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering, MIT. He is a passionate philanthropist and looks for the opportunities to give back to the society and help the deserving and needy ones with his monetary assistance. Youssef Kabbaj Goldman Sachs former strategist shares his insights on various investment opportunities, leadership and philanthropy through his blogs that can be viewed at http://youssefkabbaj.net/blog/. Some of his recently written blogs include:
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Successful Leadership The Importance of Feedback in Leadership What Defines a Great Leader
In his blog on the role of emotional intelligence, Youssef says that harboring high emotional intelligence benefits a leader with increased opportunities for successful employees’ management and can have a high impact on the overall condition of an organization. High EI makes the employees more productive that ultimately leads to more success for an organization. To keep yourself updated with what insights Youssef Kabbaj has to share with you, please read his blogs that he posts regularly.