Sofiane Lahmar

Chief Executive Officer

Sofiane joined DPI in April 2010 and has extensive finance experience spanning private equity investing, M&A investment banking, and option trading. Prior to joining DPI, he was a Partner and co-Chief Investment Officer at Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management, a Pan-African private equity investment firm majority owned by Kingdom Holding Company, the investment vehicle of HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a member of the Saudi Royal family and international investor.

Prior to joining KZAM in 2005, Sofiane was a Vice President in the M&A group at JP Morgan in New York where he helped advise on over US$25 billion worth of M&A transactions. Sofiane started his career on the foreign exchange option trading desk of FleetBoston in Boston.

Sofiane currently serves and has served on the boards and board committees of the companies in which he has invested. He was named as one of the Financial News 100 Rising Stars in 2008, as one of the Africa Private Equity Managers of the Year by Jeune Afrique in 2010, and as one of the Africa Leaders of Tomorrow by Jeune Afrique in 2013. Sofiane holds an MA in International Economics & Finance from Brandeis University’s International Business School (Boston) and a Maitrise in Management from Dauphine University (Paris). Sofiane was born and educated in Algeria and is a citizen of Algeria and France.