Fareed Asadi became Chairman in 2009. He joined Black Pearl Capital from Julius Baer, where he was founder and global head of the Client Advisory Group. In that role, he was responsible for establishing and managing a unit focused on the bank's largest and most sophisticated clients.

Fareed brings 17 years of financial experience in asset management and advisory services with a focus on global equities, structured products and real estate. Prior to joining JB, Fareed was at Credit Suisse, Zurich for three years starting in 2003 as part of CS Investment Partners, a team focused on large and global clients. He co-founded a private venture capital firm in 2000 that focused on IT in the MENA Region. Fareed was also at Morgan Stanley, London from 1996 to 2000 as a member of PWM team focused on the Middle East.

Fareed has a BSc from City University of New York in Management & Computing and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Reza co-founded Black Pearl Capital along with Reza Abbas Jafarian. Together they had previously set-up Symphony Partners Plc in 2001, a UK based real estate and asset advisory firm.

Reza was previously with the Albert Abela Corporation as one of the youngest executives sitting on the Board of both Sogeres SA and the Abela Corporation. (Abela is one the largest privately held catering companies with over 42,000 employees and 40 offices worldwide).

In 1994, Reza partnered with Po Sang Bank, an affiliate of the Bank of China, to create a global financial services group. Prior, Reza managed the UK arm of MKS Finance SA, Management Investment & Trade Ltd ("MIT"). Under his management, MIT fleetly became a dominant force in the OTC foreign exchange markets increasing the company's daily trading volumes 10 times to an excess of $8 billion.

Reza graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Engineering and Commerce.

In 2007, Abbas Jafarian co-founded Black Pearl Capital. He did this on the heels of co-founding Symphony Partners Plc, a real estate and asset advisory firm that continues to be part of BPC today. At Symphony Partners, Abbas helped source and structure over several hundred million Euros of real estate and private equity deals within the euro-zone for a number of the firm's clients.  

Until he set up BPC, he sat on the investment committee of several large investment trusts that managed over $2 billion in a diversified portfolio of publicly quoted investments, real-estate and private equity investments.

Since 2006, Abbas assisted several prominent financial institutions in Europe to increase their funds under management globally with a special focus on Latin America. Over this period, he helped raise several billion dollars from the region. Previously, Abbas was an investment executive at Morgan Stanley in London.

In 1992, he qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and Touche. Abbas received his MBA from London Business School in 1998 and has an undergraduate degree in business administration and international relations.

Dominique Leimer joined Black Pearl Capital in March 2009 from Bank Julius Baer, where he was a Managing Director and member of the Client Advisory group since January 2008.

He brings 17 years of financial experience focused on emerging markets (Asia & Middle East), equities, bonds and structured products. Prior to joining the Client Advisory Group at Bank Julius Baer, he was the CEO of Julius Baer Middle East and Middle East & India Sub-Continent Global Head, where he successfully led, implemented and developed growth efforts in the region.

Prior to BJB, Dominique was at Credit Suisse for 14 years where he acted as an account manager and portfolio manager. He was relocated to Dubai as Regional Head for CS in 2003, where he was responsible for setting up the Credit Suisse regional office with a full DIFC banking license. 

Dominique has a Masters in Business from the Geneva University HEC and an Executive Masters from the International Bankers School in Chicago.