Ahmad Saidali

Programme biography

Ahmad Saidali is a global asset allocator with 16 years of family office experience, and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Redwood Heritage Multi-Family Office, a regulated multi-family office in Dubai serving entrepreneurial and sophisticated families around the world. His career brings together Swiss private banking, family office leadership, global real estate investment, fund structuring and a close reading of geopolitics. Together they inform his perspective on how family wealth is built, invested and preserved across markets and generations.

Before founding Redwood Heritage, he led the incorporation of one of the earliest multi-family offices in the DIFC and served as its Chief Executive Officer; the firm was recognised as Best Multi-Family Office MENA at the WealthBriefing MENA Awards. He was previously Head of Family Office Services at a leading Swiss independent asset manager, and Head of Investment at CBRE Middle East.

Ahmad writes regularly for the financial press in Switzerland and the Gulf, including Market Magazin, Swiss Banking & Finance Magazine, Finews and L’Agefi, and is quoted in The National, Gulf News and Emirates Business. He brings investment experience and independent judgement to global asset allocation, family governance and long term stewardship. He holds an MBA and an MSc in Finance, with a major in Wealth Management, from the University of Geneva.