Prior to founding TriSpan, Fady Michel was the CEO of the Quilvest Group, CEO of Quilvest Private Equity, Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors, Chairman of its Advisory Board (asset allocation) and Chairman of all its investment committees. Over his tenure at Quilvest, the group grew its assets from US$3.7Bn to US$38Bn.

Fady Michel led a team that sourced and/or led investments in more than 250 private and real estate funds and over 110 direct company and property investments.

The investment performance at Quilvest during the 14 years under Fady Michel’s leadership translated into two global awards in 2012 and 2013 by PE Exchange Awards. He was also twice in a row, in 2013 and 2014, on the “100 Most Powerful Arabs” list and several times on the cover pages of leading private equity and wealth management periodicals.

Prior to Quilvest, Fady Michel was a co-founding partner of Delta Capital, a pioneering TMENA PE platform. He was also a Senior Manager at Bain & Company headquarters in Boston and an investment banker at Tucker Anthony in New York.

Fady Michel is a summa cum laude graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was also the only student to be concurrently awarded an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.