Who Are We?
We are a team of highly motivated, efficient and skilled professionals working in the financial advisory and finance capacity building fields. We carry a combined experience of +30 years in the field working in the Middle East and North Africa region. We live in a fast-changing world and we pave the way for our clients to keep up. We own an in-depth understanding of the complicated issues our clients face and we enjoy transforming obstacles to learning experiences.
Our Mission
We are committed to delivering superior solutions to help our clients grow while maintaining the highest ethical standards.
Our Team
We are a small, yet highly effective, team of individuals who are highly experienced in financial advisory and finance capacity building.
Partner Profile
Bilal Ghattis, CFA, MBA
Partner - Advisory
Bilal is a Partner for Advisory services at Lead Associates. Bilal holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration – Accounting, from Haigazian University in Lebanon. Additionally, Bilal earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charter after passing all three levels of the CFA exam in September 2014 and he is currently a member of the CFA Institute and Lebanese CFA Society. Bilal has earned his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at West Texas A&M University in Texas USA.
Bilal has more than 15 years of solid experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Modeling, Corporate Finance, Deals Structuring, Due Diligences, Valuations, Internal Audit, and Risk. Bilal’s experience goes beyond Lebanon, where his past job requirements included analyzing companies (Private and Publicly Listed) in the Middle East and North African Region.
Bilal is also an expert CFA Trainer and Finance Coach at multiple academies in the MENA. Additionally, Bilal runs our Finance Capacity Building function, in which he has offered dozens of trainings to publicly listed companies, governmental agencies, small and medium enterprises, and high level finance executives.