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May 4

44m 24s

From funder to founder with Adel Alateeq...

Yasmin AlKhowaiter

About this episode

Can you make investing as easy & fun as shopping?

How can you put more money in the right places?

Adel Alateeq is the former CEO of Jada Fund of Funds, and the current CEO of Awaed, a wealth management platform. He joins us to discuss how investment has evolved in the Kingdom since his days building the first real estate fund at Riyad Capital after the Saudi stock market crash, to founding PIF's fund of funds during COVID, and his latest journey as a fintech CEO.

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