AsiaOne Magazine April-May 2018 Issue

achievements
Khaldoon Khalifa
Al Mubarak
As Managing Director and Group CEO of the Mubadala
Investment Company – which is active in 13 business
sectors in more than 30 countries globally – Mr Khaldoon
Khalifa Al Mubarak ensures that its business strategy is aligned
with Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification efforts. In addition, he
is efficiently leading as the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive
Affairs Authority (EAA), which provides strategic policy advice to
the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, of which he is
also a member. He is also the Chairman of the Emirates Nuclear
Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA);
and board member of First Abu Dhabi Bank (formerly First Gulf
Bank) and a member of the UAE Supreme Petroleum Council.
Spearheading an organization on the move, originating from
a merger of Mubadala Development Company and IPIC in May,
2017, Mr Al Mubarak, is quite pleased with company’s progress so
far. “We continue by the way today to evolve, as we enter into new
sectors, and we’re deploying capital in a swift effective way,” he
says. Citing an example of Mubadala Investment’s US$15 billion
(Dh55bn) commitment to Softbank’s $100bn technology-focussed
Vision Fund, announced in May 2017, in which Saudi Arabia’s
Public Investment Fund is also a participant, he asserts that the
investment has opened up a whole avenue of fresh opportunities in
new and disruptive companies for Mubadala Investment: “We have
been active [for] the last six weeks over this partnership; we have
deployed significant capital already into very different companies
around the world, from China to the United States to Europe. That
gives us insights into very attractive deal flow in a sector that is
important for us as we look to the future diversification of Abu
Dhabi and our portfolio within Mubadala Investment Company.”
The multifaceted & multitalented entrepreneur & an
experienced leader, Mr Nasser Butti Omeir Bin Yousef,
is spearheading Union Properties as the Chairman & is
efficiently facilitating restructuring of the business to establish
a highly efficient & fully integrated real estate developer and
property manager. Mr Bin Yousef is also serving as the Chairman
of several prestigious companies, including Bin Butti International
Holding, NBB Capital, OBN Oil, & Sky Telecom Group. Looking
forward to propel Union Properties to greater heights, he states,
“By developing some of the city’s most with exciting & upscale
communities, Union Properties has proudly contributed to the
Dubai success story for 30 years. Our list of completed projects,
from MotorCity & Index Tower to Uptown Mirdiff & The Green
Community, are some of the most sought after neighbourhoods in
the region, while our pipeline of future developments will set new
standards for integrated community living.”
He has also garnered an extensive experience in the field of Travel &
Tourism, owing to his multiple erstwhile roles as Honorary Chairman
of the United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations, Chairman of
the Abu Dhabi Travel & Tourism Agencies Council, Gulf Travel and
Tourism Agencies Association Committee, and the Tourism and Renta-Car
Committee at the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce. His passion
for the Travel & Tourism industry is quite explicit in his assertion: “No
one can promote the travel and tourism industry like the sons and
daughters of those who have been closely involved with the industry.
It’s my bread and butter; I was taught to love it since birth.”
Nasser Butti
Omeir Bin Yousef
42 | ASIA ONE | april-mAY 2018