Leadership
A management team with a proven track record in creating value and driving long-term growth. Manara’s
team has a rich and varied investment experience in commodities and global finance.
Our senior leadership team has operated at the highest level, managing globally significant investments.
Board and Committee Members
Turqi Alnowaiser
Chairman of the Board
Turqi is an experienced investment professional with a wide range of expertise in local and
international investment markets.
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Bob Wilt
Non-Executive Director
Robert has over 30 years of executive and operational experience in metals, mining and multinational
corporate leadership.
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Sofia Bianchi
Non-Executive Director
Sofia is an experienced investment professional with expertise in the international mining sector
and managing investment in emerging markets.
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James Rutherford
Non-Executive Director
James Rutherford has over 25 years’ experience in investment management and investment banking,
specialising in the global mining and metals sector.
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Muhammed AlDawood
Non-Executive Director
Muhammed has wide ranging experience in academia, consulting and in investment.
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Eng. Sajjad Cheema
Non-Executive Director
Sajjad is an experienced risk and strategy professional with strong expertise across the entire
risk
spectrum with a particular focus on investment risk.
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Farid Habib
Executive Committee Member
Farid has wide ranging experience in international investment and the metals and mining industry,
and a strong background in mergers and acquisitions.
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Hassan Korji
Audit Committee Member
Hassan is an audit expert with extensive experience in auditing multi-asset class transactions and a
track record of advising large funds on managing investment risk.
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Assaf Alquraishi
Executive Committee Member
Assaf has extensive expertise in leading human resource teams in global markets with a focus on
talent development, culture change and organisation effectiveness and analytics
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Johan Van Vuuren
Executive Committee Member
Johan is currently Vice President Merger and Acquisitions at Ma’aden, a position he has held since
2023.
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Management Team
Pierre Chenard
Chief Executive Officer
Pierre’s extensive experience of over 40 years includes senior roles in corporate development,
strategy and legal.
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Fawaz Al Enazi
Chief Financial Officer
Fawaz’s 22 years’ experience includes corporate finance, strategic planning and funding.
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Tarmo Haehnsen
Chief Investment Officer
Tarmo has 20 years’ experience in the global metals and mining industry, leading M&A transactions,
investment evaluations and capital planning projects.
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Remi Goron
Chief Risk Officer
Remi’s 17 years’ experience includes Head of Investment Risk at leading Australian pension fund
Brighter Super, and Head of Analytics at MSCI Australia.
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Elizabeth Breen
Chief Legal Officer
Liz’s more than twenty years’ experience as a senior partner at Stikeman Elliott LLP, a top tier
Canadian law firm
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Tariq Taibah
Head of Corporate Affairs
Tariq has over two decades of experience in corporate affairs, government relations and business
development in energy, finance and mining.
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Sahar Sewaralthahab
Investments Director
Sahar has more than ten years’ experience in investment banking in Riyadh, New York and Toronto,
where she primarily focused on global M&A in the metals and mining industry.
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Muhammad Jaffer
Investments Director
Muhammad is an investment and finance professional with over a decade of experience in the metals
and
mining industry.
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Nick Slade
Technical Director
Nick has over 27 years’ experience in mining, working internationally in operational roles at mines,
in project development, management and as a non-executive director.
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Abdullah Almoqren
Financial Controller
Abdullah has over 10 years’ experience in financial management and reporting at public and private
equity companies.
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