Mr. Essa enjoys more than two decades of experience in various leadership roles advising and managing investments for government and semi-government entities, multilateral development bank, leading investment holding firms, and members of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates as well as several ultra-high net worth individuals. Well-networked with close ties to individual & institutional communities.

Mr. Essa is results-driven financial expert with hands-on experience working across the full M&A and funding life cycles, in addition to conducting valuations and managing a broad range of consultancy mandates in compliance with international accepted standards. He participated in several cross-boarder deals totaling over USD 2bn within the M&A, corporate banking, investment banking and consultancy arenas.