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FinVelo


Advisor. Coach. Mentor

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FinVelo


Advisor. Coach. Mentor

 

you can change

Sustainable and fundamental change has to start with your own desire to change. Change the way that you look at things. Change the way that you live your life. And ultimately you can feel content and become more successful.

 
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What we can do together


FinVelo is founded on belief in Balance. Purpose. Life and Work. I believe that I can help you to find sustainable success in your business while helping you and the communities you touch. I firmly believe that only you can truly unlock your own potential. I can help with that.

What we can do together


FinVelo is founded on belief in Balance. Purpose. Life and Work. I believe that I can help you to find sustainable success in your business while helping you and the communities you touch. I firmly believe that only you can truly unlock your own potential. I can help with that.

Advisor

Senior Confidential Counsel

I understand how important getting the right key advisor is to a chief executive and to the company. I also understand individual corporate cultures and possible future challenges.

 My role is that of a "confidential navigator”. One who helps create clarity and purpose with a focus on sustainable transformation at the C-Suite level in family enterprises and medium sized ventures. 

 A trusted strategic advisor, who brings experienced counsel and challenges traditional corporate behaviours with unique and executable ideas. A collaborative board member with a strong suite of business skills. 

Coach

Family Business Owners and Chief Executives

People in senior positions too frequently find themselves in prolonged high stress or high anxiety periods. Often they feel isolated and unable to talk in confidence with others around them. They feel they can't share their inner challenges. They become disoriented and often make disastrous decisions, which then start a vicious and entirely avoidable negative cycle. I offer you the opportunity  to work with a trusted and experienced guide who helps you design your own positive path forward.

Mentor

Entrepreneurs and Founders of Startups

I leverage over 35 years of experience across the globe working with thousands of leaders in a multitude of Industries. The foundation lessons of success and failure among this multitude of leaders leads to wisdom in leadership.

Having your own unique independent mentor might be the difference between the path to a thriving business or to one that struggles. This is a two way commitment and requires exceptionally good chemistry between the Founder and the Mentor.


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Feedback


Feedback


As a relatively young CEO life could become difficult. Balancing between oneself, family, and community while maintaining a sharp focus at work, is definitely challenging. There is nothing more helpful than having someone who has been there and successfully done it, to guide you and teach you how to live your passion, at your best performance and with no stress.I thought I am getting coaching in business but what amazed me is that I got a coaching in life as well. I learnt how to balance the various aspects of my life and live in order. I developed a methodology to navigate through whatever life throws at me, at my best performance and with no stress.
— CEO - 9000+ Employees - Construction & Engineering - Middle East
Tarek facilitated the ALI-C Executive Coaching program I participated in last year. Like none I’ve ever met, he integrates top-tier corporate business skills with joy, awareness and generosity that immediately draws out the best in people. I loved working with Tarek and highly recommend him to C-Suite leaders and teams.
— Owner of a Successful Psychology, Coaching & Group Facilitation Practice , USA
Tarek has been a long standing and trusted friend and mentor, sharing a similar background of working in the banking industry and then setting up our own businesses, which brings with it an entirely new set of challenges has meant that having someone you can talk and sometimes vent to has been of unquantifiable value, hopefully for both of us. Tarek is always kind and gentle in both listening and offering advice and is a positive role model personally and in business.
— Co-Founder Specialised Recruitment Firm - Asia Pacific

Tarek is, in one word, a Connector. He is fantastic at putting business people together for them to build great things. He did that for me, twice, and I can honestly say I have never thrived more.
— Co Founder - Social Impact Tech Company - United Kingdom
I have had the pleasure of both having partnered with Tarek as the Co-Head Of the Bank , and witnessed his efforts on the Board and as a chair of several committees. He is immensely visionary - whilst keeping the steps to implement said visions well grounded. He uniquely empowers those around him that he leads, or coaches, to become much better confident leaders , but always with good ethics , armed with the right tools and framework(s) to ensure a solid foundation
— Former Co-Head at FTSE 100 Bank
Tarek is a great mentor and strong leader, empowering and enthusing those that work for and with him. His open and inclusive style, cultural awareness, courage and positive attitude make him bring the best out of all of us!
— Senior Executive - Financial Services - US, Asia & Europe
Tarek is a highly creative thinker, great listener and thoughtful strategist for busy professionals who want to have a ‘thinking partner’ who will not only listen to them and challenge them, but also someone who will help you surface the most ingenius ideas. A professional with heaps of expertise and experience at the highest levels within international organisations and with a passion for people
— Highly Experienced International Executive and C-Suite Coach, Strategic Facilitator and Author
‘Tarek is great at spotting opportunities and getting the right people together to execute on them
— CEO, Founder & Serial Entrepreneur Award winning Tech Company - United Kingdom
Tarek is a voice of reason who can always be relied upon for sound and thoughtful advice
— Former EMEA Head of Corporate Communications - European Global Banks
Tarek is an inspirational leader and mentor. I had the pleasure of being his Head of HR for a period of time and found him to be solutions focussed, passionate and most of all, a great listener. He is at his best when he is working in partnership with individuals and teams towards a common goal. He has the mind of a banker and the heart of a poet.
— Regional HR Head - Global Bank - Middle East
Tarek has supported me as both coach and mentor in addition to making an excellent conversation partner. His generosity of thought and spirit is really quite rare; his attentive questioning has led to profound personal realisation about how I work and the development of new skills in my decision making toolkit. Less than 5 minutes with Tarek will show you that he is out to make the world a better place and his positivity, commitment and demonstrable action are infectious.
— Senior Retail Industry Leader
I worked with and for Tarek and experienced him as leader and a mentor. He is strategic, inspirational, a fantastic communicator and truly caring and compassionate person. Tarek has been one of the most influential people in my life and I don’t know anyone that has worked for him that does not speak highly of him and has fond memories and anecdotes to share
— Former Regional Chief of Staff - Global Bank - UK
Absolutely the most inspirational leader and mentor I have worked with (and I have worked with many)
— CEO - Bank in the Middle East
Having worked closely with Tarek I consider him to be a great colleague, leader and compassionate person, a joy to be around
— Former Regional CEO FTSE 100 Bank and Currently Chairman of a European Bank
Deeply thoughtful, helpful, balanced and creative - a pleasure to bounce ideas off - created clarity on my own way forward with a few very simple questions
— Former Group COO - Global Bank - UK
Tarek is an exceptionally creative leader, with an ability to bring unique insight and perspectives to multiple problems and situations. He is passionate about diversity and harnessing the best in everyone, both for their own personal development and the benefit of driving businesses forward.
— Managing Director, Head of Change & Strategy, for Cyber and Information Security Risk - Global Bank - Europe
Tarek is an inspirational leader with an ability to think beyond the obvious. He challenges the path well-trodden to expose the best in people and organisations. As a mentor, Tarek has guided me through complex decisions for both personal and professional development.
— A senior Financial Services Leader

The Founder


The Founder


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Tarek has found his life purpose. It is helping others unlock their own potential.

Tarek has had a career in building successful and sustainable multibillion dollar businesses. There is no question in his mind that this was all due to the super people he worked with. The bulk of this time was with 2 global financial services companies : a Fortune top 30 company and a FTSE top 30 company; where one of his last roles was Managing Director and Corporate Banking Co Head of Europe. In 2021, after 4 years of being an NED on the Group Board, he took on the role of President & Group CEO of a privately held multi Industry group with a 200 year history in the Middle East.

Working around the globe with amazing people, Tarek has always believed that we all have a choice. A choice to build a far better world, starting with ourselves. In his opinion, it always starts there. He believes that it is a choice that we can all make every single day. One step at a time.

Earlier, in 2016, Tarek founded his own company, FinVelo with a focus on three areas - coaching senior leaders at the top of their game, mentoring entrepreneurs and advisory & board work. At the same time, he joined the Asian Leadership Institute and trained in their triad coaching model which he has applied to his work across a range of clients in multiple industries and geographies including financial institutions, governments, multi-lateral agencies, large private sector corporates and family owned multi-generation businesses. Tarek was a trustee in a young British Charity called ASTRiiD - which helps talented people with long-term health issues connect with brilliant employers. A powerful purpose leveraging Tech to make magic happen. Over the past several years, he has engaged around purpose, a few Social Impact Tech founders, and has done so with passion, curiosity and admiration.

Tarek has a unique way of blending his in-depth understanding of the corporate and business world, with a mindfulness based approach to individual leadership transformation. His passion and energy is contagious and he has a talent for combining both eastern and western business philosophies in a way that is both creative and fun.

His interests include music, art, nature walks, Tai Chi, photography and humour. His love of music goes beyond listening to actually creating and recording and the adventurous part of him is indulged by exploring the world on two wheels both with and without an engine.