Empowering legacies of families and business owners.
OUR STORY
Our journey commenced in 2016 with a clear mission: to preserve and enhance family wealth for a single family.
What began as a mission quickly transformed into a commitment to navigate the intricate landscape of family capital. We understood early on that managing a family portfolio over its lifetime involves a series of complex, multi-disciplinary decisions that collectively make a lasting impact on the family's legacy. Building on this foundation, our platform today empowers the families we advise, helping them make these crucial decisions.
OUR SERVICES
Personalized financial strategies for your present and future.
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We offer personalised guidance on crafting the right mix of assets tailored to your family's goals. Our ongoing role involves monitoring and adjustment of allocation, investment providers, and strategies, all aimed at keeping your investments aligned with your core objectives.
Creating and Managing Investment Mandate
Periodic Monitoring and Reporting
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We provide essential support across financial and strategic functions to operating asset management teams, with a clear emphasis on driving value creation. We work alongside you, offering guidance that spans both financial and strategic aspects
Governance Structuring
Strategic Support
Financial Infrastructure Support
Value Management
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We regard governance and reporting as essential disciplines to our approach given the amount of stakeholders, and conflict risk in the ecosystem. Setting out mission and objectives, assigning decision makers, compliance measures, and other governance tools are key to portfolio sustainability. We support our collaborative efforts by recommending various governance tools and strategies.
Family Charter
Communication & Confidentiality Guidelines
Committee Creation and Participation
THE OLIVEGROVE WAY
Tailored approach designed to secure your family's legacy and future prosperity.
Ecosystem Approach
Our mission is to create a robust infrastructure that empowers families to safeguard and grow their wealth and assets. By focusing on your needs, we build a custom and comprehensive ecosystem designed to help you achieve your clearly defined qualitative and quantitative objectives over the long term. This ecosystem includes essential stakeholders, such as investment and service providers, all centered around your goals. Our role is to manage and align these stakeholders, ensuring they work together seamlessly to support your overarching objectives.
Operating Assets
We recognize that your operating assets, whether legacy or acquired, are a cornerstone of your family’s wealth-building strategy. These assets have a multi-faceted positive impact on the transfer of wealth, from expertise to tangible benefits. Our platform’s objective is to provide your family with the right tools and support for managing these assets, whenever needed, and in alignment with our investment mandate.
Family Alignment
Family first and foremost. We position ourselves by the family, and aim to become an extension of it. This means we spend significant time understanding the nature and dynamics of each family, and incorporate it in our approach. We also make sure we fully align our incentives with the family, and eliminate any other incentives that might cause conflict.
Cross-border Partners and Solutions
Recognizing the diverse needs and global presence of high-net-worth families, we provide services with cross-border capabilities, eliminating any geographic limitations for you. Our extensive network of global partners is designed to complement your needs, ensuring seamless support wherever and whenever you need it.
OUR TEAM
Our team is committed to guiding families and their enterprises through complex challenges, supporting their pursuit of their overarching objectives.
TAREK EL HAJJ
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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With fifteen years of experience in investment banking, asset management, and financial structuring, Tarek is the strategic architect and driving force behind OliveGrove Capital. His last tenure in the family office space has equipped him with a deep understanding of the unique needs of families and small enterprises. As a result, he has built a company dedicated to supporting their growth and success. Aligned with his commitment to serving the needs of families and enterprises, Tarek actively participates on multiple boards and investment committees across the US and EMEA.
HADI DARWICHE
Co-Founder & Chairman
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Hadi is the visionary founder and Chairman of OliveGrove Capital. Hadi's entrepreneurial spirit and deep industry knowledge have been instrumental in forging strategic partnerships with leading financial institutions and promising enterprises. His forward-thinking approach drives OliveGrove Capital's focus on early-stage investments with the potential for significant long-term impact. As Chairman, Hadi sets the strategic direction for the firm and remains a pivotal figure in its growth and success.
WISSAM YASSIN
Junior Partner
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Wissam is a seasoned financial professional with a proven track record in capital markets and corporate finance. His expertise in structured products, derivatives, and financial modeling enables him to navigate complex transactions and challenges. As a junior partner, Wissam has been instrumental in building our investment management and reporting infrastructure, and he continues to be a key contributor to expanding our capabilities to better serve our stakeholders.
MICHEL SFEIR
Chief of Staff
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Michel is an operations and strategy executive with a proven track record in driving business growth and execution. With extensive experience in capital markets, M&A, private placement, and private equity, he brings a deep understanding of complex financial transactions to his role as Chief of Staff. Michel excels at translating strategic vision into actionable plans and delivering results.
