Karachi: BMA Capital Management Limited, Pakistan’s premier financial services group, today announced the appointment of two senior management positions to strengthen its high-profile corporate finance & advisory team in Pakistan. The two executives bring with them rich and varied experience in the investment banking business.

Syed Hassan Ali, a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accounts (UK) has joined BMA Capital as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance & Advisory. Prior to joining the company, Hassan was associated with KPMG Pakistan for eight and a half years and was lately its Manager Advisory, Transactions & Restructuring.

At the same time, Usman Saeed has also joined BMA as Vice President, Corporate Finance & Advisory; he brings with him seven years of experience in corporate finance & equity research having previously been employed at Arif Habib and Taurus Securities. He is an MBA in Finance and Bachelors of Science (Honors).

Welcoming the two executives on the team, Moazzam M. Malik, Chairman & CEO at BMA said, “We are on a growth path, the general elections of 2013 coupled with the incoming Govt’s economic reforms agenda is providing us with many opportunities, with the induction of Hassan and Usman BMA plans to further strengthen its corporate finance product offering ranging from mergers & acquisitions advisory, capital raising via the debt & equity capital markets, privatization, restructurings, Islamic finance, transaction support services & private equity investments in Pakistan and regional markets; the team at BMA welcomes the two executives.”