The people behind the work

Ahmad Din has spent more than twelve years in corporate finance and transaction advisory across Saudi Arabia, the GCC, and Pakistan. He is an ACCA member (UK), FMVA certified, and AFM accredited. The work has been concentrated where the numbers have to survive scrutiny: multi-billion riyal mixed-use developments, project finance for renewable and industrial assets, and the valuations and due diligence that decide whether a buyer proceeds.

What that brings to a mandate is judgment about which assumptions will hold. A model is only as good as the thinking behind its inputs, and knowing which of them survive diligence and which give way under questioning is what separates a defensible number from a plausible one. Where a figure will not hold, you will hear it from him early, while there is still time to change the structure.