Karim Ghannam

Karim has 24 years of experience in fund management and investment banking.
Prior to founding 8F, Karim joined Deutsche Bank Group in 2011 with 14 years of industry experience.
Karim was the Managing Director and Head of Alternatives & Fund solutions in Asia Pacific for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM).
Karim’s responsibilities included oversight of the bank’s hedge fund, private equity/private markets, third-party mutual funds and retirement/hybrids groups in the region.
He was a member of the Alternatives and Fund Solutions Executive Committee and the DeAWM Asia Pacific Executive Committee.
Prior to that, Karim was the global co-head of DB Private Equity & Private Markets - Deutsche Bank’s US$11 billion AUM primary, secondary and co-investment platform - and co-chair of the Global Investment Committee.
He was the Global Head of Private Markets within Deutsche Bank’s Wealth Management business with overall responsibility for product selection, structuring and management within the private equity, real estate and credit space.
Before joining Deutsche Bank Group, Karim was at Argan Capital, a European mid-market private equity fund whose predecessor was Bank of America Capital Partners, where he spent 10 years, most recently as a Partner responsible for principal investments.
Karim was a member of the investment committee at Argan Capital and helped oversee over €600m of investments.
Karim led a number of European private equity deals, including structuring financing, implementing strategic change and exercising executive and board control.
Prior to joining the Argan team in 2001, he worked with Merrill Lynch in London and Lehman Brothers in New York, where he concentrated on financing and M&A transactions for industrial growth, energy and power, and telecommunications companies.
Karim holds a Masters degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.