Mr. Jalal is passionate about synthesis of impact in business ventures to create scale-able and sustainable operating models. In addition to commercial ventures with extensive experience in private equity, investment banking, finance and operations, this led him to social entrepreneurship. His career straddled private, public and not-for-profit sectors that gave him 360 degree insights into operational value creation and stakeholder management in Asia & Europe. He led creation of $93M Small Midcap Fund, created an initiative to rank high growth SMEs in Arabia, made private equity investments in Levant and the GCC, structured financing of utilities in Europe and restructured and turned-around an 1800 employee strong social enterprise in health and education.

Mr. Jalal holds Masters degree in Public Administration /International Development from Harvard Kennedy School, BSC Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and ACA certification from ICAEW.