Ahmad Saidali will join the panel Capital Allocation in the Middle East: How Regional Investors Are Partnering with Global Managers, at the Dubai Private Capital Summit at The Lana on 15 September 2026.
He will be joined by H.E. Maher Al Kaabi, Advisor to the Group Chairman and Independent Board Member, Alserkal Group; Rami Harajli, Chief Investment Officer, IVI Holding; Amine Bentaleb, Managing Partner, Patrimium MFO; Maryam AlAli, Head of Fund Investments, Mubadala Capital; and Dr. Sami Kamel, CEO, Dutco Cleantech, Dutco Group. Axe Ali, Partner, EY-Parthenon, will moderate.
“We design the system before we select the products. Governance defines the asset allocation and not the other way around.”
The family office view
The panel will consider how capital from the region is being allocated, and how regional investors are building deeper partnerships with global managers. Ahmad will bring the family office perspective: a family office should begin with the family, and every mandate should follow from the family’s own design.
A family office should begin with the family.
He will set out the sequence Redwood Heritage believes the work should take.
The family comes first. The family’s context, obligations and horizon define its capital structure.
The structure shapes the allocation. The capital structure sets the strategic asset allocation, and the allocation determines the mandates.
Managers follow the mandate. Only once the design is clear are managers and products chosen, so the family owns a coherent portfolio built around its own objectives.
Our thanks to CapLink Group and EY-Parthenon for the invitation.
Redwood Heritage Multi-Family Office FZCO is a Dubai-based multi-family office licensed by the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, headquartered at Sheikh Rashid Tower, Dubai, with established professional relationships in Geneva and Zurich. The firm advises families, founders and family offices on wealth architecture, governance, succession and the coordination of capital across jurisdictions.
Ahmad Saidali is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Redwood Heritage Multi-Family Office in Dubai, and a global asset allocator with sixteen years of family office experience. His career spans Swiss private banking and family office leadership, including leading one of the DIFC’s earliest multi-family offices from its incorporation, a firm recognised as Best Multi-Family Office MENA at the WealthBriefing MENA Awards under his leadership.
