the house
An institution
for the crossing.
Afrabia is an investment house seated in Jeddah. We place Gulf capital in African ventures, open the hospitality of Makkah and Madina to the world's investors, and publish the intelligence our work produces.
The firm serves one geography, the corridor between Africa and Arabia, and accepts the discipline that geography demands: residence on both shores and a named office behind every commitment.
Fourteen
centuries of trade on the water between the two shores.
Two
shores of one sea, with the house resident on each.
Four
sectors worked inside one corridor: food, minerals, infrastructure and hospitality.
One
standard of conduct across every market the house enters.
the founding
Made to outlast the voyage.
For fourteen centuries the capital on this water moved the way the cargo moved, one voyage at a time. A merchant in Jeddah backed a sailing to Suakin or Massawa, took the return, and the arrangement closed with the ledger. The trade endured. An institution for its capital never formed.
Afrabia exists to carry what one crossing learns into the next. Founded in Jeddah, the house stays in the markets it enters and carries the obligations that residence brings. A partner who commits capital through us deals with one institution for the life of the position, and will find it at the same door in ten years.
the charter
What the board holds the house to.
i.
The house holds before it invites.
Afrabia's capital takes the first risk in every mandate. The partner joins a position the house already carries, on terms the house already lives with.
ii.
One book of rules.
The house carries one book of rules into every market it enters. A new market can add a page. None takes one out.
iii.
Presence through the cycle.
The house holds offices, licences and duties where it invests. It is there before the first survey and remains until the final distribution is paid.
iv.
The record stays open.
The house publishes its reading of the corridor. A counterpart can test what we believed, and when, against what we did.
the register
The names that keep the house.
A short register, kept on purpose. Every mandate the house accepts answers to a name on this page.
board of directors
Chairman
Dr. Mohamed Ali
The chair answers for the whole house: the mandates it accepts, the standards it keeps and the name it carries. Nothing enters the register of commitments without this seat behind it.
governance
General Manager
Abdulrahman Hamad Al-Oatibi
The general manager runs the house day to day: its people, its obligations and the work moving on both shores. When a partner needs an answer, this office owes it.
operations
team
Business Development and Strategy Manager
Sharjeel Khan
The strategy desk charts where the house goes next: new markets, new counterparts and the terms on which a crossing is worth making. Every opportunity the house weighs passes across this desk first.
strategy
the seat
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The house keeps its seat where the corridor's capital gathers, on the water it serves.
the ground
See the corridor mappedBoth shores of the Red Sea corridor
Coverage runs country by country, mapped in the open.
The whole of the house fits on a page. We expect to be held to every line of it.
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