Aladdin Saba founded Beltone Financial in 2002 and co-founded BPE Partners in 2006. Mr. Saba was also a co-founder of Hermes Financial, which became EFG Hermes in 1996, after working as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc. in New York. He is a founding member of the Egyptian Investment Management Association and the Egyptian Capital Markets Association. Mr. Saba is the chairman of Basata E-Payments and Basata Finance and sits on the boards of B Investments and Madinet Masr. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Egypt, the Egyptian Exchange, and GB Auto. Mr. Saba holds a Bsc in Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University, an MBA from Wharton, and an additional Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.