Taimoor Labib

Founding Partner, Head of MENA & Chairman of Africa at Affirma Capital

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Taimoor Labib is a global emerging market investor based in Dubai, UAE with 28 years of direct private equity and investment banking experience (22 years private equity) working with leading international and regional financial institutions; deep relationships with family groups, regulators, limited partners, and sovereign wealth funds. Long successful track record includes creating four premier regional platforms and building teams and processes.

Since March 2010 to present, previously a Managing Director of Standard Chartered Private Equity and currently a Founding Partner of its spinoff firm, Affirma Capital, a leading independently owned global emerging market private equity firm with $4billion AUM.

Prior to founding Affirma Capital in 2019, Taimoor was Head of Africa & Middle East Private Equity business for Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) investing and overseeing an approximately $1.5 billion direct investment portfolio in leading companies across sectors throughout Africa and the Middle East and has sat on approximately 15 Boards throughout his career including: Al Jazeera Poultry, Copperbelt Energy Corporation, Eaton Towers, FINE Hygienic Holding (Vice Chairman), Group Amana, GZ Industries Limited, Nerhadou International, Topaz Energy & Marine, Souq.com (observer), and Union Bank of Nigeria.

Previously he was also Head of Global Private Equity Portfolio Management (2013-2016) overseeing the overall global portfolio throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Taimoor began his career with Bear Stearns investment banking in New York and The Carlyle Group in Washington D.C. He later joined EFG-Hermes in both Cairo and Riyadh and then Jadwa Investment in Riyadh where he established the private equity practice for the firm.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University.