Baihas Baghdadi is Chair for the Middle East and North Africa of the Atlantic Basin Initiative. He brings more than thirty years of international corporate banking experience to our initative, developing global banking businesses across numerous industry sectors and in different corporate banking areas and geographies. He spent 30 years supporting Multinational Corporates and Financial Institution clients to develop their business overseas working for Global banks (Arab Bank, Fortis “now part of BNP” & Barclays Bank) with large international networks in different parts of the world.

After leaving Barclays Bank where he was the Managing Director and Global Head of Trade & Working Capital unit, he launched in 2019 “Trade & Working Capital” (TWC), an NBFI (Non Bank Financial Institution) Spain based fully dedicated to support the southern European Mid corporates working capital. TWC today is a market leader in Spain with more than 2 billion euros of invoices financed, supported by top institutional investors funding of 500 million euros.

At the end of 2023 Baihas launched Higher Bridge Capital, a US based NBFI fully dedicated to support global working capital platforms and the US Mid corporates working capital financing needs. In early 2024 Baihas launched Tamuwil Capital, a Spanish based NBFI that provides trade finance sharia’a compliant products to mid corporates globally. And he launched BNB Private Equity, an M&A Boutique targeting the SME segment.

Baihas has other interests in Residential and Commercial Real State. He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration, a Master in Finance, and he attended several executive trainings at Instituto de Empresa (Madrid ) and Harvard Business School (Boston).