Hisham Akram
Mr. Hisham Akram is a co-founder and an executive committee member of Beltone Financial and is currently the global head of Beltone Asset Management. Mr. Akram was a main player in the core team that was instrumental in Beltone's prominent position as one of the leading investment banks in the region. Since the establishment of Beltone Asset Management in 2004 he lead the asset management operation to become the largest in Egypt with assets under management in access of USD 4 billion and has built a team of high-calibre professionals that are ranked among the best in the industry in the region. During this short period of time the asset management team has launched different products that cater to different needs in different markets that have always been characterised by superior quality and impressive performance.
Before his role in Beltone Financial, and until August 2002, Mr. Akram was the Managing Director of the Egyptian Portfolio Management Group, a subsidiary of EFG-Hermes, where his responsibilities included managing money for the segregated accounts in Egypt and the region as well as developing net-worth management solutions for local and regional investors. Mr. Akram also managed money for institutional investors such as the government pension fund, an endowment for the Fulbright Commission and others. Prior to joining EFG-Hermes, Mr. Akram worked as a financial analyst in the Investments and Securities Group in Cairo and as a foreign exchange trader at the Arab Bank where he headed the capital markets operation before joining EFG-Hermes in late 1995.