Our Team

Omar Al-Gharabally is the Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer, President, and a Partner at Greenstone. As a founding member of the firm, he has been instrumental in shaping Greenstone’s vision, investment direction, and operational leadership from its inception.

A veteran investment banker with over 25 years of experience, Mr. Al-Gharabally brings comprehensive expertise across fund placement, asset management, portfolio advisory, risk management, private banking, and capital raising. His international career spans major financial centers including New York, London, and the Middle East at both global institutions and specialized investment firms.

Since co-founding Greenstone more than 15 years ago, Mr. Al-Gharabally has built one of the most extensive and influential investor networks in the GCC. He manages relationships with over 2,000 institutional and private investors, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate conglomerates, leading family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. His ability to secure capital commitments, close complex transactions, and structure strategic partnerships has been critical in helping global fund managers establish and grow their presence in the region.

As a member of Greenstone’s Executive Committee, Mr. Al-Gharabally is a key architect of the firm’s long-term growth strategy. Under his leadership, Greenstone has been recognized by Preqin as one of the world’s top 10 firms by number of funds raised, reinforcing its position as the largest fund placement firm in the Middle East.

Prior to co-founding Greenstone, Mr. Al-Gharabally served as Executive Vice President at Wasserstein Middle East, the regional arm of Wasserstein & Co., a $2 billion private equity firm. There, he pioneered an independent investment placement model for GCC investors and significantly expanded the firm’s regional presence. He was previously Head of Investor Marketing at BMB Investment Bank, where he led multiple private equity placements and established an investor relationship program that attracted strategic capital flows.

Earlier in his career, he held investment roles at Awal Bahrain, managing a diversified portfolio of regional and global assets, and at Lloyds TSB Plc in London, advising high-net-worth clients on wealth management strategies.

Mr. Al-Gharbally is a British and Kuwaiti national, a proud member of Kuwait’s distinguished Al-Gharabally family renowned regional merchants whose legacy is embodied in Souk Al-Gharabally, a historic marketplace in Kuwait City that has stood for over 90 years, Mr. Al-Gharabally draws on a long tradition of entrepreneurship and financial acumen.

In addition to his leadership at Greenstone, Mr. Al-Gharabally serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee, a member of the Executive Committee, and a Board Member of Greenstone Saudi Arabia. He also holds key regulatory responsibilities across several Greenstone entities.