Karim Khadr
	Head of MENA Equity Research for HC Brokerage

Joined HC in September 2008 to be based in Dubai with the aim of building HC’s Middle East research franchise. Mr. Khadr spent 10 years at HSBC working as an Equity Analyst as part of the Emerging Markets Equity research team. During the period of 2005 and 2007, he acted as the Head of Egypt Research at HSBC then worked as part of HSBC’s MENA research platform, which was ranked first by the II survey in April 2008. Throughout his career Mr. Khadr has covered banking, insurance, construction, and telecommunications sectors and was based in Cairo, London, and Dubai. Mr. Khadr graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Helwan University’s Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration in 1997.

	Mohamed El Saiid, CFTe, MFTA
	Executive Director & Head of Technical Analysis

Joined HC in 2004 to be responsible for developing the TA department and team in such a way as to provide reliable TA-based analysis and forecasts on key regional and global markets that are of strategic concern to clients. He began his career working for Momentum Wavers, Ltd., a Middle East technical analysis firm. Mr. El Saiid holds a master’s degree in business administration. He was previously awarded his Master of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA) certification in 2004 and in the same year, joined HC as an Associate/Lead Technical Analyst. Later, he joined Unifund, a Geneva-based international private fund as the Chief Technical Strategist and Co-fund Manager of the Middle East investments. Mr. El Saiid is a technical analysis instructor and Head of the Education Committee for the Egyptian Society of Technical Analysts (ESTA).