Our World-Class Team Drives High-Growth Ventures

  Faraj Benhamad is the Founder, Managing Director of Numerous Investment. A seasoned corporate builder and investor, he commands over 25 years of institutional leadership experience across high-risk, capital-intensive global industries. By seamlessly bridging deep engineering discipline with sophisticated corporate finance and transaction execution, Faraj directs the firm’s strategic growth mandate, positioning it as a premier engine for long-term value creation and cross-border expansion in the MENA region.

Prior to founding Numerous Investment in Dubai, Faraj spent several years with oil and gas top corporations including ADNOC Group, he held leadership roles including Team Leader, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Managing Director at regional energy ventures, steering them from inception to pre-IPO maturity. His foundational corporate tenure includes nearly 13 years at Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB), where he directed large-scale operations across multiple global geographies, culminating in his appointment as Country General Manager for the United Arab Emirates. His expansive international footprint stretches across the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Libya, and Oman.

Throughout his distinguished career, Faraj has built an exceptional track record managing robust corporate P&Ls, multi-million dollar budgets, and highly complex global supply chain frameworks. As a proven corporate architect, his expertise lies at the intersection of operational excellence and strategic financial advisory. He has successfully engineered and executed complex, full-cycle cross-border acquisitions—directing mandates from deal sourcing and rigorous asset due diligence through to post-merger integration and strategic turnaround.

In the institutional investment arena, Faraj brings unmatched fluency to fundraising, alternative capital deployment, and corporate governance. He has pioneered milestone financings, developed market entry strategies, and directed complex financial evaluations for high-stakes mergers and joint ventures. A trusted counterparty to institutional investors, private equity funds, and sovereign entities, Faraj’s global network is built on decades of execution and integrity. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Benghazi (1995), weaponizing structural analytics to unlock trapped market value and deliver superior returns for the firm's partners.

  Richard Murbeck is a visionary Senior Investment Advisor, venture builder, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of international experience developing, financing, and scaling technology, telecom, infrastructure, and financial platforms across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As the Founder of Seavus Group and Eferío, he blends deep technical and operational mastery with a sharp strategic focus on cutting-edge, disruptive technologies. Throughout his distinguished career, he has built a strong reputation for transforming complex operational frameworks into high-value, investable ventures with long-term global impact.

His work is fundamentally centered on venture development, corporate governance, and building scalable ecosystems that bridge innovation and infrastructure with global capital. Co-founding the Seavus Group, Richard successfully scaled the organization into a premier global ICT and software engineering powerhouse with over 1,000 employees, ultimately orchestrating its strategic exit to the ARICOMA Group.

As a premier architect of capital deployment and mobilization, Richard possesses a sophisticated track record in fund sourcing and capital structuring. He specializes in mobilizing multi-million dollar funding rounds, securing cornerstone institutional investors, and aligning alternative capital with high-potential market opportunities. He serves as an invaluable cornerstone for us and other elite investment groups, leveraging a deeply integrated, international network of institutional investors, private equity funds, and sovereign wealth networks.

Currently, as Strategic Capital Architect & Africa Lead at SIF Africa, Richard spearheads cross-border initiatives across the African continent. His primary focus is on originating, structuring, and executing scalable, high-growth ventures through structured finance, targeted mergers and acquisitions (M&A), infrastructure roll-ups, and AI-driven strategies. Through Eferío—his venture-building and investment platform specifically dedicated to African emerging markets—he drives critical projects in connectivity, digital transformation, and strategic investment.

Today, Richard works in close alignment with entrepreneurs, investors, governments, and industrial groups to build the next generation of African infrastructure, financial systems, telecom platforms, and tech ecosystems. By combining profound regional insight with financial discipline, he continues to build engagement within the global financial community, strengthen corporate equity positions, and drive the execution of investment objectives.

  Moath Al Rawi is a seasoned, cross-functional Senior Investment Advisor with over 30 years of international experience bridging deep technical mastery with sophisticated investment strategy and business transformation. His distinctive expertise spans geoscience, natural resources exploration, corporate strategy, and asset management. By seamlessly combining technical fluency in the energy and mining sectors with advanced financial analytics, he possesses a proven capability to translate complex operational frameworks into sustained, long-term corporate value.

Throughout his distinguished career, AlRawi has steered high-impact technical and leadership initiatives globally, operating across key markets including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Norway, Canada, and Jordan. He has collaborated extensively with tier-one global organizations such as Schlumberger and Baker Hughes, establishing a strong reputation for operational excellence and cross-border project execution.

Beyond his technical achievements, AlRawi has been a vital architect of corporate governance, asset deployment, and capital optimization. Within the venture management function of the Saudi Industrialization and Energy Services Company (TAQA)—a Public Investment Fund (PIF) subsidiary—he held central responsibility for evaluating high-growth investment opportunities, vetting multi-million dollar M&A prospects, managing diverse portfolio companies, and steering critical pre-IPO strategic frameworks.

Most recently, as Chief Executive Officer of the Arabia Geophysical and Surveying Company (ARGAS), AlRawi engineered a comprehensive corporate turnaround and diversification strategy. Under his leadership, the organization broke free from a traditional single-customer model, successfully expanding into mining, geotechnical, and technical services. By securing vital international alliances, driving aggressive knowledge transfer, and leading sophisticated fund sourcing initiatives, he expanded the company's regional footprint and directly transformed the business from a loss-making entity into a highly profitable market leader.

AlRawi holds a foundational academic background with degrees in Engineering Technology (specializing in Semiconductor Technology), Geoscience, and Strategic Management, with executive training from institutions including Heriot-Watt University and Yarmouk University. A Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), he also actively lends his governance and strategy expertise to prominent boards and academic bodies, including advisory roles with King Abdulaziz University and board engagements with the Iraqi Private Banks Association.

   Anand Kumar brings over two decades of deep industry expertise, technical sophistication, and strategic insight across the global chemical distribution, specialty manufacturing, and industrial infrastructure sectors. As a seasoned Chemical Engineer by qualification, his multi-regional experience spans the GCC, India, and Iraq, strengthening the firm’s structural capabilities in evaluating, executing, and scaling complex industrial and cross-border acquisitions. His deep functional knowledge allows Numerous Investment to rapidly identify operational inefficiencies within potential target businesses and engineer robust integration frameworks post-acquisition.

Prior to his current advisory capacities, Anand spent his early career honing his technical and managerial acumen across various chemical and industrial sectors at global conglomerate General Electric (GE). Driven by a clear vision to redefine the chemical supply landscape in the Gulf region, he later founded AquaChemie in Dubai, UAE, in 2008. Under his visionary leadership as CEO, the company rapidly transformed from a high-potential startup into a trusted regional powerhouse and leading player, delivering specialized chemical and operational solutions to heavy industries such as Oil & Gas, Refineries, Water Treatment, and Petrochemicals.

At Numerous Investment, Anand leverages his extensive track record in cross-border corporate growth, value-driven technical excellence, and regional compliance to optimize portfolio assets. His unwavering focus on quality, sustainability, and technological innovation is instrumental in navigating macroeconomic industry challenges and expanding the firm’s geographic footprint. By integrating localized Middle Eastern and South Asian market insights with advanced supply infrastructure, he leads strategic initiatives that deliver measurable financial impact, making the firm’s ventures a preferred partner for major state-owned affiliates and international corporate clients alike.

 Dr. Abd Fattah Sharif Muriby is a distinguished global industrialist, senior advisor, and veteran energy corporate architect with decades of institutional leadership. He spans highly complex engineering, drilling infrastructure, and cross-border energy solutions across the MENA region, North America, and Asia-Pacific. As a US-graduate Petroleum Engineer holding a PhD in the field, he uniquely pairs rigorous academic authority with half a century of hands-on operational dominance. His career is deeply anchored in programming and executing complex offshore well construction campaigns—particularly across Abu Dhabi's major maritime basins—and commercializing disruptive upstream extraction technologies.

Dr. Muriby has built unparalleled institutional expertise across the entire Exploration and Production (E&P) lifecycle. His core capabilities reside in maximizing asset lifecycle value through sophisticated automated drilling optimization, directional navigation architectures, and heavy oil production technologies. As the Chairman of the Wildcat Group, he expanded a localized enterprise into a cross-border industrial framework across the Arabian Gulf, North Africa, India, Canada, and the United States. He successfully engineered high-value joint ventures, distribution rights, and technical representations with world-class E&P leaders and service conglomerates, including Schlumberger, National Oilwell Varco (NOV), Baker Hughes, Mitsubishi Hitachi Industries, and ARAMCO.

At Numerous Investment, Dr. Muriby serves as an invaluable strategic anchor for the firm’s expanding energy and heavy infrastructure portfolios. He applies his extensive technical fluency to steer high-stakes mergers and acquisitions, conduct exhaustive subsurface and operational due diligence, and mitigate risk across capital-intensive oilfield concessions. By integrating advanced reservoir exploitation solutions with global supply chain networks, he accelerates post-acquisition scaling, optimizes production lifecycles, and drives sustainable, multi-regional financial returns for the firm's sovereign and institutional partners.

  Socrat Naim brings nearly thirty years of international leadership experience directing end-to-end supply chain strategy, cross-border procurement excellence, and large-scale business transformations across global markets. With a highly diversified career spanning high-stakes sectors like Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure Commodities, his multi-sector background directly strengthens the firm’s structural capabilities in evaluating, executing, and scaling complex cross-border acquisitions. His deep functional expertise allows Numerous Investment to rapidly uncover operational inefficiencies within potential target businesses and engineer robust integration frameworks post-acquisition.

Throughout his career, Socrat has specialized in designing resilient, global supply chain solutions that mitigate geopolitical risk, optimize working capital, and streamline transit pipelines. He is an expert in global vendor management, having established rigorous international procurement governance and compliance metrics that ensure optimal supplier pricing, strict SLA adherence, and long-term continuity of supply. His strategic approaches to global sourcing have consistently unlocked substantial bottom-line value. A core pillar of Socrat's operational philosophy is the modernization of warehousing and logistics infrastructure to outpace traditional industry growth. He possesses an extensive track record in warehouse lifecycle management, leveraging data-driven demand planning, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and advanced Inventory Optimization models to slash inventory carrying costs while eliminating stockouts. Socrat also brings significant regional institutional weight from his time with the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar). At Masdar, he spearheaded high-value capital procurement, commercial contract negotiations, and critical vendor infrastructure frameworks for international mega projects. At Numerous Investment, Socrat leads the post-acquisition operational scaling of portfolio companies, deploying optimized warehousing protocols, agile third-party logistics (3PL) solutions, and advanced Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes to accelerate long-term value creation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising & Marketing from Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon.

    Marthinus Vermeulen is a distinguished energy sector legal executive with more than 20 years of experience, including 17 years as in-house counsel and over a decade as General Counsel to major energy and technology companies. As the Founder and Managing Partner of Consura Legal Consultancy, a boutique legal consultancy serving oil & gas, energy, and technology companies across MENA and Africa, he brings a rare combination of legal, commercial, and operational insight to complex, high-value energy projects and cross-border transactions.

Throughout his distinguished career, Marthinus has held senior legal leadership roles at tier-one international organizations. As General Counsel & Company Secretary at PXGEO, he oversaw corporate secretarial functions, risk reviews, compliance, acquisitions, and contract negotiation for high-value projects. As General Counsel at OiLSERV, he established and led the Legal & Compliance function for over ten years, successfully negotiating major upstream oil & gas service agreements and Oil & Gas EPC contracts. As Region General Counsel for Weatherford, he led high-value upstream oil and gas service and supply agreement negotiations, directed the establishment of multiple subsidiaries and branches across jurisdictions, and managed all legal affairs across a Sub-Saharan Africa market spanning more than ten active countries. Earlier, as Senior Legal Counsel at Huawei, he acted as company secretary and negotiated complex commercial and telecommunications infrastructure agreements across Southern Africa, earning the Huawei President Award for Best Legal Counsel during his tenure.

Marthinus' core expertise spans upstream oil & gas services and supply agreements, turnkey EPC projects (EPC through DBOOM), charter party and offshore contracting, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, and corporate governance. His early years in private legal practice in South Africa built a strong foundation in litigation, contracts, and intellectual property disciplines that remain central to his executive legal work. He is a trusted adviser to boards and senior management on governance structures, directors' duties, and regulatory compliance, and provides legal and commercial support across the full transaction lifecycle, from due diligence through to closing complex cross-border deals.

Widely recognized as one of the Middle East's leading corporate counsels, Marthinus has been featured in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist (2019, 2022, 2023) and served as a Judge for the Oath Middle East Legal Awards (2019–2024). He holds LLM and LLB degrees from North-West University and an MBA (Oil & Gas) from Middlesex University. He was admitted as an Attorney and subsequently as an Advocate and is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN). At Numerous Investment Marthinus applies his deep sector-specific legal expertise to support the firm's investment activities strengthening transaction structuring, contract negotiation, legal due diligence, and corporate governance frameworks across the firm's energy and cross-border acquisition mandates.

  His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah bin Mubarak Al Balushi is a highly distinguished statesman, successful businessman, and Senior Advisor with decades of high-level leadership across the Sultanate of Oman and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Descending from an ancient and historically prominent Omani family celebrated for its enduring loyalty to the Sultans of Oman, His Excellency commands a prestigious position in Omani society. His exceptional reputation, community trust, and civic leadership culminated in his democratic election to the Omani Shura Council, where he served with distinction for two consecutive terms (eight years) representing the State of Sohar.

In the corporate and investment arena, His Excellency is a prolific entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Al-Joud Company for Development and Investment, the Chief Executive Officer of Granada Gardens Company. Through these vehicles, he has driven major regional economic development, establishing a world-class track record in high-value real estate investment and asset management across the GCC, with an extensive portfolio of landmark projects concentrated in Muscat and key international markets.

During his tenure in public office, His Excellency chaired numerous state service and strategic committees, bridging public policy with private sector growth. His sophisticated background makes him an invaluable asset for navigating sovereign relations, public-private partnerships (PPPs), and cross-border regulatory frameworks. His extensive, high-level diplomatic and commercial networks span the entire Middle East, serving as a powerful conduit for institutional investment and capital deployment.

His Excellency holds a Bachelor of History from the College of Education, complemented by advanced professional diplomas in both General Administration and Public Relations & Political Diplomacy. Born in 1966, he balances his extensive executive, advisory, and governance responsibilities with active contributions to regional economic committees, academic institutions, and philanthropic initiatives across the Gulf.

  Jonathan Jackson is a cross-border real estate developer, and entrepreneur with over 35 years of institutional experience pioneering high-value property development and asset management frameworks across Europe and East Africa. As the Chairman and Founder of Lordship Group, which he established in 1989, Jonathan has successfully steered the group from inception to international prominence. He bridges deep operational knowledge of frontier and emerging markets with sophisticated capital deployment strategies to unlock long-term portfolio value.

Born and raised in Kenya and professionally qualified in the United Kingdom, Jonathan seamlessly combines Western financial discipline with a profound on-the-ground understanding of high-growth markets. His foundational career includes critical UK market experience with premier development and construction entities, including Tarmac and London & Edinburgh Trust. Leveraging this technical background, he expanded operations to Prague, gaining invaluable, firsthand experience navigating the rapid transformation of the CEE region from a frontier market into a vital contributor to the European economy.

Throughout his distinguished career, Jonathan has demonstrated exceptional mastery over full-cycle property development, multi-million dollar capital budgeting, and strategic asset optimization. He is widely recognized for his unique ability to replicate sophisticated, internationally proven real estate development models within high-growth emerging economies. Currently focusing his strategic vision on East Africa, he has aggressively scaled a robust portfolio of landmark properties and strategic land banks across the Nairobi and Naivasha regions.

In the institutional investment arena, Jonathan brings highly sophisticated capabilities in deal structuring, cross-border joint ventures, and alignment of alternative capital with strategic real estate opportunities. Trusted by private investors, institutional funds, and international financial networks, his reputation is built on decades of transparent execution and market-leading returns. He leverages a powerful global network of senior executive and industrial relationships to mitigate investment risk, accelerate project timelines, and deliver sustained capital appreciation across the firm's real estate initiatives.

  Necib Çebi is a Turkish-qualified lawyer and senior legal advisor specializing in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, dispute resolution, and complex cross-border transactions. He advises entrepreneurs, investors, shareholders, and corporate clients on transaction structuring, contract negotiation, legal due diligence, regulatory risk, and the establishment and operation of corporate ventures.

Throughout his career, Necib has handled a broad range of sophisticated commercial matters, including business acquisitions, shareholder arrangements, corporate governance documentation, settlement negotiations, and high-value contractual disputes. His practice combines rigorous legal analysis with a commercially focused approach, enabling clients to identify transaction risks, protect their strategic interests, and develop practical structures for sustainable growth.

Necib’s experience extends across the full transaction lifecycle—from preliminary negotiations and legal due diligence to documentation, closing, post-transaction governance, and dispute management. He also advises on international commercial relationships, investment structures, compliance frameworks, and the legal coordination of multi-jurisdictional projects.

At Numerous Investment, Necib supports the firm’s investment and development activities as Senior Advisor for Legal, M&A and Corporate Governance. He contributes to transaction structuring, legal due diligence, contract negotiation, risk allocation, corporate governance, and cross-border investment frameworks, with a particular focus on connecting Türkiye-based commercial capabilities with opportunities across the MENA region.

Necib holds an LL.B. from Bahçeşehir University and an MBA from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He is admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association and works professionally in Turkish and English.