Astarte Capital Partners, an alternatives co-investment platform, has appointed Omar Habboush, CFA, to its business development team as an Associate.
Habboush joins recent hires Richard Templer, Finance Director, and Bruno Fumach, Investment Director, in the London office.
Prior to his appointment at Astarte Capital Partners, Habboush gained seven years of experience at Citigroup in London, where he was part of the Institutional Sales team and worked with UK, European and Middle Eastern pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and central banks. Prior to that Habboush focused on operations, risk, regulation and balance sheet management within Citigroup’s Fixed Income Sales team.
Habboush is currently reading Finance for a Master’s Degree at London Business School. He is a CFA Charter holder and a graduate of the University of Exeter, with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance.
Founded in 2015, Astarte Capital Partners’ global team comprises more than 20 professionals in offices across London, Zurich, Sydney, Toronto and New York. The asset manager has attracted four new hires since April 2019 and the rapid expansion follows the recent establishment of a real estate investment platform.
Dr Stavros Siokos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Astarte Capital Partners, says: “We are delighted to welcome Omar to his new role at Astarte. The ongoing growth of our team reflects the strength in our pipeline of opportunities and Omar’s experience will be valuable as our investor base expands globally. We continue to see excellent potential for deals in the real assets space with our co-invest platform opening more than USD2bn worth of value-add opportunities to our partners.”
