Advisor. Coach. Mentor
Advisor. Coach. Mentor
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.