Sameer Meralli

Sameer Meralli has had extensive industry experience in finance and has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East and Africa. Sameer started his career working for Deutsche Bank in Madrid, Spain in an associateship on the award-winning Mid-cap Iberian equities team. Following his time at Deutsche Bank, Sameer went on to join the Quantum group at Goldman Sachs in London, UK. After a successful period at Quantum, Sameer left Goldman Sachs to join hedge fund Paradigm Capital as one of the founding principals assuming the role of Vice President. Paradigm was later successfully acquired by a family investment trust.

Sameer then moved on to join Rubicon Capital; a boutique asset management firm specializing in delivering real estate and commodity-based investment products for institutional clients in the Middle East and North Africa. As Executive Director, Sameer led the engagement with one of the world’s largest Exchange Traded Commodities providers managing over USD $26 Billion in assets under management. Rubicon Capital represented the firm in the Middle East and North Africa eventually creating a footprint of over USD $600 Million for the firm in 6 months. During his time there, he was also responsible for driving the Shari’ah approval for a client’s precious metals platform; establishing it as the world’s first Shari’ah-compliant Exchange Traded platform now holding more than USD $6.9 Billion in assets.

Following this success in the Middle East, Sameer was approached to join Dubai Commodities Asset Management; a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai World. Sameer, as Managing Director, was responsible for heading global strategy for the business and was a key driver in advising on the first derivative listing in the Middle East. Sameer was later invited to accept the role of Chief Executive Officer at Algebra Commodities; a joint venture company that was focused on advising global stock exchanges on the delivery of Exchange Traded products and Equity derivatives. The firm also possessed an investment management arm providing discretionary asset management specifically in commodities for a large privately-held Middle Eastern family office.

In early 2010, the investment management arm of Algebra Commodities was acquired by Alchemy Capital Advisors; an investment bank and Sameer assumed the role of Managing Director. As Managing Director of Alchemy Capital Advisors, he led the Advisory business and was also responsible for lead