Barclays Wealth boosts private banking team

Published: September 7, 2009

Barclays Wealth, a global wealth manager, has appointed Sahba Hadipour as director to its international private banking team in the Middle East. He will report to Fawaz Baba, general manager of the Dubai international private banking office.   

Based in the Dubai International Financial Centre, Hadipour will be a private banker focusing on the high net worth and ultra high net worth markets in the UAE.

Before joining Barclays Wealth, Hadipour was a director, private equity and wealth management for CIC Holding (Invesco Holding) where he developed strategic relationships with UHNWI, SWF and institutional investors. In his position, Hadipour created and developed the architecture and formation of several private equity funds in the real estate, technology and oil & gas sectors. Before that, Hadipour was with Vertical International and Coutts de Lisle Investments where he held a variety of roles.