Our team

Kamal F. Tabet is the CEO and Founder of Adon Capital.  He is a member of The Wharton School’s Executive Board for EMEA. He has over 30 years experience in the financial services industry, mostly in investment banking, and was personally involved in transactions in excess of $130 billion across advisory, equity and debt products.

Mr Tabet also worked in private equity, as Head of Terra Firma’s Investor Relations and a member of its Executive Committee in 2011-12. During his 15 year tenure at Citigroup, Mr Tabet was the Global Head of private equity coverage, fund raising, and private placement activities for the bank. He was also a member of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank’s Operating Committee and on the Advisory Board of Bridges Ventures, a UK government sponsored, socially conscious, private equity firm.

In 2007, under his leadership, Citi’s Financial Entrepreneurs Group was voted by the financial sponsor community “Coverage Team of the Year” both in Europe and in Asia. Prior to joining Citigroup in 1994, Mr Tabet spent 8 years at Lazard Freres & Co. in New York where he was a leading M&A banker focused on buyouts and cross border transactions. He joined Lazard from Republic National Bank of New York where he spent 4 years, mostly as an options trader.

Mr Tabet received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1984 and his B.S. in Economics cum laude from Pepperdine University in 1980.

  • 13th November 2018

    Kamal F. Tabet

    Kamal F. Tabet is the CEO and Founder of Adon Capital.  He is a member of The Wharton School’s Executive Board for EMEA. He has over 30 years experience in…
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  • 13th November 2018

    Professor Jeffrey Golden

    Jeffrey Golden is Chairman of The P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in The Hague, and a member of the Foundation’s Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance, a Governor and Honorary…
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    Fanglu Wang

    Fanglu Wang is CITIC Capital’s Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner of CITIC Capital Silk Road Fund. He is also the Chief Investment Officer of CITIC Kazyna Investment Fund I.  Mr…
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  • 13th November 2018

    Noëlla Coursaris Musunka

    Noëlla Coursaris Musunka is the Founder of the nonprofit Malaika and Ambassador for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ms Coursaris Musunka uses her platform to raise…
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  • 13th November 2018

    Sir William Blair

    Sir William Blair is the Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, based at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies.  He served as a High…
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  • 13th November 2018

    William H. Neukom

    William “Bill” Neukom is the founder and chief executive officer of the World Justice Project, an organization devoted to promoting the rule of law throughout the world. He is a…
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  • 13th November 2018

    Aliko Dangote GCON

    Aliko Dangote is the Founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, the largest conglomerate in West Africa, based in Nigeria. The Group, which has subsidiaries that cut across…
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