Saad Achkar

Background

About Saad Achkar

A seasoned business development executive with over 20 years of experience in trading, sales, and distribution of alternatives and specialist credit products. I currently serve as managing director of business development at Ancora Invest, where I focus on expanding the firm’s institutional relationships and supporting capital formation across its investment strategies.Until March 2024, I served as senior director of business development at Lakemore Partners Ltd, a private credit investment firm specializing in control CLO equity.Throughout my career, I have collaborated with sovereign wealth funds, banks, insurance companies, wealth managers, and family offices. My expertise spans fund raising, public markets sales and trading, private placements, capital introduction, risk management, and yield‑enhancement solutions.Prior to my tenure at Lakemore, I was Head of Trading at GPP Group in London, where I played a pivotal role in establishing and expanding the firm’s fixed income sales and trading business. I also founded Kadmus Capital, a boutique advisory firm, and worked at Barclays Investment Bank in London, where I covered the Middle East institutional client base and ultimately served as Co‑Head of MENA Sales and Risk Solutions Group.Areas of expertise: capital markets, risk management, risk solutions, hedging, fixed income, derivatives, bonds, credit analysis, investment advisory, trading, capital advisory, prime brokerage, fund services, custody services, clearing, capital introduction, institutional sales, SWFs, banks, non‑bank FIs, official institutions, family offices, private banking, wealth management, interest rates, structured products, structured financing, structured credit, specialist credit, alternative assets, emerging markets, MENA.