Our friend Haitham Abdel Moneim (LinkedIn) has joined the Orientals Group as chief investment officer after a nearly eight-year run with EK Holding, where he was most recently director of investor relations. The Khamis family owned Orientals has a global footprint and holds investments of more than USD 3.1 bn spanning industrials, retail, real estate, education and petrochemicals. Haitham began his career at LinkdotNet and Raya Integration and was investor relations manager at Oriental Weavers from 2007 through 2013.