Meet Our Team

Najib Fayyad has over 35 years of global work experience serving in leadership roles including Chairman, CEO, and Managing Director in the US, Europe and the MENA region. Mr. Fayyad serves in various roles within the National Holding Group. He is currently the GCEO at Scope Investments, an investment holding company with a well-diversified investment portfolio. Najib served as the Group CEO of National Holding Group (NH) until recently, where his role changed to Strategic Advisory to the Board of Directors. Other roles that Mr. Fayyad is currently serving include various directorship roles on the Boards of the various NH entities and subsidiaries including Chairman and Vice Chairman roles.

Also serving as Board Member of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and sits on various Board Committees for the bank; and is currently the Chairman of ADIB Capital, the Asset Management and Investment Banking Arm of ADIB regulated by the DFSA.

Najib brings hands on knowledge and proven leadership along with extensive work experience in investment banking and financial advisory services; formulating business strategies, executing business plans, and mustering transformation programs, and corporate governance, streamlining the decision-making process, with focus on the bottom line and the creation of value over time.

Over the years Najib has had the opportunity to work in various sectors with large multinational companies, including, KPMG Federal Services Group; PriceWaterhouse Capital Markets and Mass Privatization Group in Washington DC, where he served on USAID and World Bank funded projects in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s (Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia); and Arthur Andersen Global Corporate Finance in the MENA region. Najib also worked with a Turkish Bank in Istanbul in the mid-1990s, where he helped in establishing the research and marketing department and promoting Turkish equities and fixed income products to global fund managers in London and New York.

Najib helped in establishing a global Islamic investment bank in Bahrain in 2004 where he spent 7 years in leading positions such as Managing Director and Head of Global Asset Management and Real Estate; Managing Director and Head of Private Equity MENA region; and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank’s Turkey operations.

During his time in Advisory Services, Najib served as lead advisor to a wide client base, structured a number of unique investment products, and managed various assignments, including PE Investments, cross border M&A transactions, private placements, project finance, business valuations, financial advisory services, feasibility studies, and preparation and implementations of business plans and strategies; and worked on Mass Privatization and Capital Markets projects.

Najib arranged and executed full-fledged restructuring programs for a number of investment companies and family conglomerates, where he devised and implemented operational efficiency and cost cutting programs, change management and organization restructuring, liquidity management, restructuring of debt facilities, and corporate governance.

Najib has worked in the regulated environment for years and has developed respectful and well-regarded relationships with regulators such as the Capital Markets Authorities in Turkey, the Central Bank of Bahrain, and also worked closely with the Central Bank of the UAE during his time at ADIH.