Adeeb Ahamed

Managing Director

Adeeb Ahamed is the founder and managing director of LuLu Financial Holdings, a financial services group operating in eleven countries across the Gulf, India and Asia Pacific, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, whose annual transactions exceed ten billion dollars across remittances, exchange, cross-border payments and digital financial solutions. He also leads Twenty14 Holdings, which he founded in 2014 to invest in luxury hospitality and which has invested more than five hundred million dollars, with a portfolio including the Great Scotland Yard Hotel in London, Pullman Downtown Dubai, the Sheraton Oman Hotel in Muscat and Port Muziris in Kochi. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Les Roches in Switzerland and a master's degree in international management from Royal Holloway, University of London. He chairs the Middle East council of FICCI, sits on the UAE International Investors Council, and writes for World Economic Forum platforms on financial inclusion and the future of fintech.