Hussein Abdel-Halim brings more than 25 years of diversified industry experience to Paradigm Invest. Before joining Paradigm Invest, he was Vice Chairman at Sigma Capital Holding, one of Egypt's leading investment banks and a member of its executive committee. In this capacity,

Hussein oversaw the Investment Banking and Asset Management divisions of the company, and was a member of the board of its brokerage division. Hussein had joined Sigma Capital after leaving investment bank Beltone Financial where he was responsible for corporate finance activities at its investment banking division,

Working on both debt and equity transactionsin Egypt and Lybia. Prior to that, he was at investment bank Naeem Holding, where he served as Managing Director of its Corporate Finance advisory subsidiary and worked on transactions with a total value exceeding US$15Bn in Egypt and the GCC. These transactions encompassed various industries, including banking, building materials, real estate, aviation, telecommunications, oil and gas and petrochemicals. Before joining Naeem Holding.

He founded research and institutional sales departments at Sigma Capital as well as National Securities, the securities brokerage arm of the National Bank of Egypt.