A multi-family office that invests alongside the families it serves.
4Front Capital manages capital for families, family offices, and institutions across the Gulf. Since 2014 the house has invested not only on behalf of its clients, but alongside them, as principal.
A deliberately concentrated house.
We practice a small number of disciplines, and practice them to an institutional standard: financial engineering at the center, expressed through the ownership of real assets and the management of market portfolios. We hold our clients' capital to the standard we hold our own.
The clients are few, the mandates are long, and the judgment is our own. Conviction, for us, is measured in commitment: where we shape an opportunity, our own capital stands beside our clients'.
Experience that operates at the institutional level.
Ahmed Shehada
Ahmed Shehada leads 4Front with more than two decades at the most senior levels of the region's capital markets, a perspective shaped equally by markets and by a formal grounding in how institutions make decisions.
He was chief executive of FAB Securities, the securities arm of the UAE's largest bank, where he advised sovereign wealth funds, global institutions, and family offices alongside the major international investment banks. Before that he was deputy chief executive of QNB Financial Services and held senior positions at ADCB, working on the strategic initiatives that carried both institutions to the front of their markets.
He chairs 4Front Holding, the group within which 4Front Capital sits. He holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, with executive education completed at Harvard and Wharton.
Salah Habib
Salah Habib brings two decades across investment banking, real estate capital structuring, and large-scale sustainable development, and holds capital to the standard he held the communities he built.
He was chief executive of Diamond Developers, the developer behind The Sustainable City in Dubai, the region's first net-zero energy community, and deputy chief executive of SEE Holding as the model extended across the region, from Sharjah to Abu Dhabi and Oman. Few in the region can match that record of taking sustainable development from concept to delivered community.
His earlier career was built in capital markets and placement, raising capital for landmark developments at Omniyat and holding investment roles at International Investment Bank.
Hussain Abdulla
Hussain Abdulla advises 4Front on transaction structuring and international investment, bringing the judgment of an investor who has allocated capital at institutional scale for more than two decades across the GCC and beyond.
He served as co-chief executive of QInvest, Qatar's leading investment bank, directing investment strategy across asset classes. Over his career, spanning senior roles at Standard Chartered and Qatar National Bank, he has executed and managed transactions exceeding forty billion US dollars across venture capital, private equity, real estate, and the capital markets.
He is Founding Partner, MENA at Golden Gate Ventures and the founder of Investake Holding, and holds a degree in banking and financial studies from the University of Qatar.