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Aamir joined BRL in 2022 and is a seasoned investment banker and experienced board director. He has some 25 years of investment banking experience in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, having worked in both bulge bracket and mid cap institutions.

Between 1996-2003, Aamir worked in the Corporate Finance Advisory division of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London advising some of the bank's highest profile M&A and capital markets clients. In 2000, he spent most of the year seconded to the bank's Tokyo office. He moved to Libertas Capital Group plc in 2003 where he successfully built its capital markets practice in London, completing over a dozen IPOs, and relocating to its Dubai office in late 2007 where he built up a network of SWFs and Family Offices across the GCC and Asia regions until he left in 2011.

After a short stint with MAC Capital Ltd (2011-2013), a DFSA regulated mid-cap investment bank in Dubai, Aamir was appointed Managing Director at Teneo Capital, the New York headquartered advisory and investment banking firm where he was responsible from 2014-2018 for the group's GCC, Africa and Asia coverage. Aamir left Teneo to join as executive director a privately owned investment holdings company with equity interests in public and private companies across several geographies and industry sectors including mining, healthcare, consumer and real estate.

During his career, Aamir has completed over US$20bn in M&A and capital market transactions across a number of industry sectors globally. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a qualified Nominated Adviser for the purposes of admissions to London's AIM Market, and has sat on the board of a number of public companies. Aamir began his career at PWC in London where he qualified as a chartered accountant and remains a member of the ICAEW. He graduated in Economics from the University of Cambridge.