Thriving in the Middle East 2021

Adeem Altaf

EMEA Head of Sales

Bloomberg L.P.

Adeem has been working for Bloomberg for the past 20 years in various position's. He recently became the Head of EMEA Core Sales department, after spending the past three years leading the region’s European buy side-sales group .

Prior to this, Adeem ran both our EMEA Product Specialists team, as well as our London Major sell-sides group, building a significant expertise across both the buy and sell-sides, in addition to areas of market specialisation.

Adeem graduated from the London School of Economics in 2000 with a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics.

Benjamin Grolimund

Head of Sales, Middle East & Africa, Chair of A Fair Share

Bloomberg L.P.

Benjamin is the Regional Head of Middle East and Africa at Bloomberg LP. He joined Bloomberg in London in 2008 where he focused on business development for the French market. He moved to Dubai in 2012 to head the UAE and Middle East Sales teams. Benjamin holds a bachelor degree from the University of Brighton and a masters degree from ESCE Paris.

Femi Okulaja

Head, GCC Sellside Sales

Bloomberg

Femi is the Head of the GCC sell-side sales at Bloomberg LP. He joined Bloomberg in London in 2008 where he focused on Operations and Analytics. He moved to Dubai in 2011 to join the Africa Sales team and then managed the regional Global Markets business for the Middle East and Africa. This experience brought him back to core sales where he was in charge of the Africa ex SA enterprise sales. He is also the Co-chair of the Black Professional Community. Femi holds a bachelor degree from Brunel University and a masters degree from Cass Business School.

Rieko Tada

Team Leader, Dubai Global Data

Bloomberg

Rieko Tada is an experienced Team Leader who manages the Global Data team in Dubai. Having started her career in Sales and Analytics for Bloomberg Tokyo, Rieko also spent 3 years in New York and 5 years in London managing a diverse group of talents. Her passion is always developing team and talents, building relationship with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the business goals. She is also a member of BPAC (Pan Asian), BABLE (Ability) and LGBT & Ally communities.

Kamel Hajri

Enterprise Data Sales, Dubai

Bloomberg L.P.

Kamel is a Enterprise Sales Specialist at Bloomberg, covering Middle East & Africa. His area of focus & expertise include Enterprise Data Solutions across classes and data categories. Kamel has been with Bloomberg since October 2000 . He has experience across Bloomberg offices in Asia mainly, Japan and Singapore where he run Both Operations and Product for Emerging Markets. Prior to Bloomberg , Kamel was running Tokyo Technical Sales for a Japanese Company while he was pursuing his PhD in Economics.

Mungid Ali

Enterprise Sales, Dubai

BLOOMBERG/ DUBAI OFFICE

Mungid is a buy-side account manager for Sovereign Wealth Funds in the UAE and Saudi Arabia at Bloomberg LP. He joined the firm in 2019 after spending 3.5 years in the financial data industry covering regional SWF's and local buy-side asset management firms within the GCC. He has been based in Dubai since 2016 and holds a bachelor/masters degree from Kings College London.

Morenike Oyagbola

Account Manager - Africa

Bloomberg L.P

Morenike Oyagbola is an Account Manager, responsible for driving and maintaining the relationship with Bloomberg's Clients across various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. She has been at Bloomberg for 5 years, previously as a Content Specialist in Bloomberg's Africa Data Contributions Team where she acquired and managed all OTC content from Africa on Bloomberg. Prior to Bloomberg, Morenike worked as a Corporate Finance Associate in Standard Chartered Bank's Financing Solutions Division in various locations including Dubai, London and Lagos. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Master's degree in International Relations.