Nasr-Eddine Benaissa Nasr-Eddine is a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation and Nominations Committee of the Board of Avendus.
Nasr is a Managing Partner at Eastgate Capital Group, the Private Equity and Real Estate investment subsidiary of NCB Capital.
Prior to joining Eastgate, Nasr was a Partner with McKinsey & Company, where he spent eight years successively in their Paris, Madrid and Dubai offices. While at McKinsey, he served leading international and regional firms. He co-founded the Islamic Banking practice at McKinsey and co-authored several articles in the McKinsey Quarterly on this topic. He was a leader of the financial services and retail practices in the Middle East and North Africa region. He was also co-leader of the Emerging Markets Financial Services practice at McKinsey.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Nasr-Eddine was Regional Director of the Middle East and South Asia for TAG Heuer (LVMH group) where he set up and operated their Middle East and India/Pakistan businesses. Previously, Nasr worked at Ernst & Young in London and Paris in the Financial Services Group and at the United Nations in Geneva.
Nasr holds a Masters in Management Science (MSc) from École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in Paris.