Hazem Ben-Gacem

Co-CEO, Investcorp

Hazem Ben-Gacem is Investcorp’s Co-Chief Executive Officer leading the firm's Private Equity business in Europe, Middle East and Asia, its infrastructure investment business, its GCC Private Wealth platform and its Investor Relationships team globally. Hazem currently serves in the board of the Italian luxury clothing retailer Corneliani, and the Hong Kong based premium food retailer City Super. Prior to his Co-CEO appointment, Hazem led Investcorp's European private equity and Technology private equity teams. Before joining Investcorp in 1994, Hazem was a member of Credit Suisse First Boston's mergers and acquisitions team in New York. Hazem holds a bachelor’s degree with honours from Harvard University. He is also the founder of the Harvard Office in Tunisia, the first formal presence for Harvard University in the Arab world and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Oxford's Middle East Centre. Until 2020 Hazem was a serving member on the Tunisian National Shooting Team, achieving a bronze medal in the 2017 African Shooting Championships.