Rudolph Waels
Founder & investor — private equity, direct investments, and strategic partnerships
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Joined May 2025
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Experienced private-equity and direct-investments leader focused on the MENA region and emerging markets, with senior roles at sovereign-related investors and banks (Aabar, First Gulf Bank, ICD) and founder/CEO of Armalia Partners; known for structuring cross-border deals, fund design and advising institutional investors. armaliapartners+2
Bridged academia and practice: led investment & commercialization at Khalifa University (VP, Investment), taught as an adjunct at Paris Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, and combines legal/technical study (LLM at King's College London) with an MBA from Wharton and technical grounding from Paris Dauphine. smartcatalogiq+1
Advisory experience with global consultancies and institutional investors: served as a Senior Advisor (affiliate) to Mercer providing investment governance and manager research support, and has a visible public profile commenting on jobs, development and venture topics. wiza+1
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