Omar Al Yawer

Partner at Ruya Partners

Interviewee

Omar is a Partner at Ruya Partners with over 25 years of asset-raising and equity trading experience from the U.S., UK and the MENA region.

Before joining Ruya Partners, Omar was Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, responsible for re-establishing firm’s presence in the Gulf region. He also held similar senior roles covering the region for the past 15 years, including Director of Middle East Sales at Man Group, Director of Institutional Sales at Franklin Templeton Investments, and Head of Investor Relations at NBK Capital Partners, where he and Rashid Siddiqi worked together since 2008.

Before moving back to the Middle East, Omar spent the first nine years of his career in asset-raising and institutional sales roles in the U.S., including Director of Investor Services at John W Henry & Co. and Principal at TradeStation Securities. Omar started his career in 1999 as an equity trader for JGM Securities in Miami.

Omar holds a B.A. in Business Management from Florida Atlantic University.