Harbour Investment Holding WLL ("Harbour Investment") is a Bahrain-based investment company.
Harbour Investment was founded by entrepreneurs, in order to establish and grow scalable businesses in Bahrain, GCC and MENA regions with a focus of technology that can change and help people live.
Harbour Investment combines the talent and experience of our Key People, the Partners and Opportunities we identify and develop, our Commitment to Corporate Governance, Experience and Entrepreneurialism and our access in and understanding of Bahrain, GCC and MENA regions.
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Tariq is a Bahraini national who was educated in business and marketing at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
Previous to his current board appointments, Fintan’s career as a Corporate Lawyer (Irish Solicitor), Chartered Accountant (ACA/CPA) and International Tax Consultant (AITI) took him from Dublin to Dubai.
Fintan is an Irish national who studied international law at the University College Dublin and Chicago DePaul Law School.
Bahrain is business friendly and widely recognised as the freest economy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (comprising Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (comprising the GCC and Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen) region.
Many multi-national companies (American Express, DHL, Gulf Air, JP Morgan Chase, Kraft and Microsoft) have already realised the potential of Bahrain as a gateway into the GCC and MENA region. Bahrain also has the regions most respected financial regulator, the Bahrain Monetary Authority (BMA), and is the regional base for many international banks.
Bahrain has a stable political/economic platform, a strong legal system based on the British model, the lowest taxation levels in the MENA and lowest cost of living and business establishment in the GCC. It also has the infrastructure to handle current and future economic growth, and it’s in the right location to easily service much of the GCC and MENA region.
The GCC and MENA is a broad region with a population about the size of the European Union. This is a unique region, it combines many wealthy nations, most of which have economies which are rapidly growing, have very young demographics, quickly developing global economic influence, and developing economic policies.
Many multi-national businesses see the growth potential of the GCC and MENA region and have pushed for a market share, particularly in the larger economies, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Harbour Investment focuses on opportunities in the GCC and MENA region using Bahrain as its launching point. Bahrain is connected to Saudi Arabia by a bridge (two thirds of the population is within a five hour drive from Bahrain) and is in the process of constructing a bridge to connect it to the world’s wealthiest nation per capita, Qatar.
Bahrain has significant influence in the GCC and MENA region with trade agreements with about 30 countries and free-trade agreements with the five Gulf neighbours who are part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Indeed, Bahrain with its liberal and well regulated banking market will benefit greatly from the planned monetary union between Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
This small island nation is also the only Gulf state to have a free trade agreement with the United States.
Harbour Investment works with entrepreneurs and businesses, always focussing on adding value, maintaining good management practices, with a core commitment to ethics and good corporate governance.
Our key personnel have built their reputations based on hard work and their commitment to good corporate governance. We believe that these CORE values are imperative components in building successful businesses for the long term throughout our home markets of the GCC and MENA region
In addition to our corporate values, we believe that the first principle of developing a successful business is to understand your market and related opportunities; the experience of the key members of Harbour Investment stands out in this regard, and is a key advantage for businesses with which Harbour Investment partners. There is no doubt that the right business ideas can succeed in Bahrain, the GCC and MENA Region, but to build a successful business you need a management team that understands the market and knows where to find opportunity.
In seeking partners and opportunities we look for business and entrepreneurs with common values to Harbour Investment. We look for opportunities where we can value add, which are scalable and underlined by good corporate governance.
Harbour Investment aims to identify scalable opportunities for Bahrain, GCC and MENA region. We are not looking to simply establish businesses, but also to use our experience to help businesses expand in the MENA region. Sometimes these business opportunities are part of a larger syndicate, and Harbour Investment will aim to ensure that our partners get in on the ground floor of worthwhile ventures.
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