Zineb Abbad El Andaloussi

Ms Abbad El Andaloussi has 23 years of relevant professional experience. She joined Helios in February 2017 and has significant transaction experience across multiple industries. Previously she was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Rothschild in Paris, having started her career there in 1999 working on European M&A deals in the Financial Services, Telecom and Consumer Goods sectors. From 2006 to 2013, she assisted in building Rothschild’s leading M&A advisory franchise in Morocco and French-speaking Africa. Ms. Abbad El Andaloussi worked on advisory mandates in a wide variety of sectors in this region, culminating in her appointment as Head of Africa. She held this position until 2014 when she left the bank to set up her own corporate advisory boutique, at which point she was retained by Rothschild as a Senior Adviser until joining Helios. Ms. Abbad El Andaloussi sits on the Board of Directors of MK Holding, a Helios portfolio company, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Banque Centrale Populaire, the second largest bank in Morocco, as a non-executive director and member of the remuneration committee. She received a degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, a leading engineering school in France, with a major in Economics. Fluent in French and Arabic, she is a French and Moroccan national.