Mehdi Sethom
Founding Managing Partner
Mehdi Sethom is the founding Managing Partner of MCF. Mehdi has over 20 years of extensive corporate finance experience working in investment banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Today, he advises a large number of private groups and institutions in their fundraising, investment and development or restructuring projects. He also serves as an independent member of boards of directors and specific investment or governance committees of several institutions.
Prior to founding MCF, Mehdi was Swicorp’s managing director and head of the investment banking division for 7 years. In his role, he advised several regional and international groups in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs and fundraisings. He also represented Swicorp in the international network of financial advisory firms, M&A International (renamed lately as Oaklins).
Mehdi previously worked for over 10 years at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance in Paris, where he headed the advisory activities covering the Middle East and Africa region. He also led the bank’s business valuation team. He was also a member of the corporate finance power utilities team as well as the London-based Mining and Metals equity research team.
He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the Ecole des Mines de Paris and speaks Arabic, English and French.
Walid Ayad
Partner
Walid Ayad joined MCF as a Partner in 2014.
Walid has over 12 years of extensive experience in corporate finance and investment banking across the Middle East and North Africa.
Today, he advises several groups and investment funds in their acquisition, divestment, debt and equity raising transactions.
Prior to joining MCF, Walid worked at Swicorp for 9 years and was a Director in the investment banking division. He advised a number of regional and international clients in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs and fundraisings in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Prior to Swicorp, he worked for over 1 year at MasterCard International.
Walid graduated from the IIHEM in Morocco and speaks Arabic, English and French.
Mehdi Ayadi
Vice-President
Mehdi Ayadi joined MCF in 2016 where he is a Vice-President today.
Mehdi has over 7 years of experience combining financial advisory, strategic consulting to management, private equity and audit. He has been exposed during his career to different sectors of the economy alongside active clients in Europe , the Middle East and North Africa.
Previously, he worked for more than 3 years in strategy consulting at Bain & Company in Paris. During his experience at Bain & Company, Mehdi participated in numerous consulting projects for world class companies with a double exposure to: i) different sectors: Financial Institutions, Industrial Goods & Services, Retail, Luxury, Healthcare, Financial services, Logistics, etc. and ii) different challenges: design of strategy and vision at management level, strategic due diligence, business diversification vs. focus on core business etc.
Before Bain & Company, Mehdi worked for almost a year in Private Equity with Axa in Paris mainly on targets based in the Middle East and operating in different sectors. Besides, he has a 6 month experience in Audit with Ernst & Young in Tunis.
Mehdi graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris and was an exchange student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business at MBA Level. He is specialized in Corporate Finance and Strategy and speaks Arabic, English and French.
Mohamed Amine Boudhiba
Associate
Mohamed Amine Boudhiba joined MCF in 2014 where he is an Associate today. Mohamed Amine has more than 4 years of experience in financial analysis, corporate finance and financial advisory in Tunisia.
Prior to joining MCF, Mohamed Amine worked for 1 year as a financial analyst at the bank ODDO, covering the telecommunications and IT services sectors in Europe.
During his time at ODDO, he gained knowledge of the telecommunications industry in Europe.
He covered several major operators and initiated the coverage of IT services companies.
Mohamed Amine graduated from the IHEC Carthage and the College of Europe and speaks Arabic, English, and French.
Sonia Danguir
Analyst
Sonia Danguir joined MCF in 2017 as an Analyst.
Sonia has more than 3 years of experience in financial analysis, corporate finance, financial advisory and Private Equity.
Prior to joining MCF, she worked for 1 year as a private equity analyst at Swicorp. Prior to Swicorp, she participated to a financial sector modernization mission organized by the World Bank in Tunisia.
Besides, Sonia has 1 year experience in Private Equity with Turenne Capital and Bpifrance in Paris.
Sonia graduated from Paris-Dauphine and Sorbonne in Paris.
She is specialized in Corporate Finance and speaks Arabic, English and French
