Doug McPhee
Doug McPhee is Senior Director - Head of Valuations at the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Prior to joining PIF, Doug was a Corporate Finance Partner and Global Valuation Leader for KPMG. He was a Panel Member at the UK's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) from 2016-2022 and Vice Chair of the CBV Institute Board of Directors from 2017-2020.
Jennifer Samarco
Jennifer Samarco is a Vice-President Investment Finance & Valuations at the pension fund OMERS. Jennifer is part of a leadership team responsible for the valuation of the infrastructure and private equity asset classes. Prior to joining OMERS, Jennifer was a senior manager within the financial advisory practice at Deloitte in Toronto.
Muhammad Ahsan Nabeel Sheikh ("Nabeel")
Nabeel (preferred name) has over 15 years of global experience in providing reliable valuation opinions to financial institutions, investment firms and corporations on the realizable value of businesses, intangible assets and other specialized investment entities for financial reporting, transactions, corporate finance and lending purposes.
Nabeel’s primary focus has been on valuation of alternative asset classes, including direct & co-investment and funds based Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate and Infrastructure assets, ensuring all private investment valuations are recorded in accordance with IFRS and U.S. GAAP fair value guidelines.
Nabeel’s role over the last several years has entailed pre and post investment valuation review and working extensively with the Deal & Asset Management teams, Valuators, Auditors and Risk & Compliance functions, among other key stakeholders within institutional funds.
Nabeel has been engaged as an independent valuation expert on multiple occasions in relation to fair value and transaction advisory opinions.
Hakim Abdeljaouad
Hakim Abdeljaouad is a managing director and leads the Valuation Advisory Services practice in the Middle East, based in Dubai. Hakim has 14 years of experience in valuation and corporate finance, and he specializes in the valuation of illiquid securities, businesses and intangible assets. Before relocating to the UAE, Hakim was part of the Valuation Advisory Services practice in London.
Hakim has performed valuations of equity and debt instruments across a broad spectrum of industries and geographies under the IPEV Guidelines. His clients included a range of alternative investment fund managers, including private equity, private debt fund managers, hedge fund managers and sovereign wealth funds. Previously, he has assisted alternative fund managers in establishing valuation policies and procedures that meet investor and regulator standards of top tier governance and independence.
Hakim’s valuation experience also includes assisting a broad range of international clients in determining values for financial reporting, tax, business strategy planning and restructuring, transaction advisory support and M&A purposes. In addition, Hakim has worked on numerous assignments valuing intangible assets for IFRS 3, IAS 36 and IAS 38 requirements (and U.S. equivalents), including the valuation of customer and other relationships, contracts, licenses, assembled workforces, covenants not to compete, patents, technology and trade names. He has also performed fairness opinions and conducted purchase price and goodwill impairment tests.
Prior to joining Kroll, Hakim was a manager in the Valuation department of EY’s Global Financial Services practice in London. He has also worked as an analyst in the Financial Advisory Services division of Houlihan Lokey and as a credit analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Hakim holds an M.Sc. in finance from the Kedge Business School. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
