Managing Director

18 yrs experience in Food, Media, Sales, Operations & Management, Zehra drives ESG Foods consultancy and trading business in key markets. She maintains global relationships with leading blue chip companies for CSR, NGOs and Distributors focusing especially in GCC region. 

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Sectors: Food, & Media

BA , LLB, UOP, MSc, Open University

Projects Director

Cyrus is Chief Technical Officer at Saahtain Foods. He brings 28 years of Manufacturing Experience& Technical Expertise in the UAE. He has been instrumental in set up of various Factories / Plants in Dubai. He was the Project Manager for Mapei SpA, Italy and executed their only manufacturing facility for Construction Chemicals in the Middle East (2007-2011). He was an Operations Manager for Meridian Technologies for Design & Construction of their Plant in Dubai Investments Park (2006). Prior to that he was instrumental in Setup & Operations of various plants at Falcon Chemicals, Dubai. (1997-2005). He also has sufficient experience in GMP Manufacturing Environment at Glaxo Smithkline Facility 1991-1996).

Partner - Acceleration Team

27 yrs experience in Private Equity, Management, Debt, M&A Advisory, Fund Management 
Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, J P Morgan, Integral, 
Sectors: Food, Finance & Tech
BEng Imperial, MSc Oxford, MBA Imperial

Partner - Acceleration Team

Layburn has 25 years of investments, venture capital and financial services experience with a focus on aquaculture, agriculture and consumer/industrial sectors. He has held roles at PwC, Agria Corp, EY and founded firms like Alune and Dalos. Layburn has worked extensively across Indonesia, having executed investments, joint ventures and M&A transactions in food and agribusiness. He holds an MA from the University of Oxford.

Partner - Acceleration Team

• 18 yrs experience in Investment Analysis,  Policy, Business Development, Strategy

• Prompt Marine, Massuterra Engineering, KMST Sdn Bhd. L&L Advisors

• Sectors: Oil & Gas, Food, Agri

• Harrow School, MA, Oxford