Syed Kashif K. Haqqi
Track record

Twenty five years, measured in outcomes.

Every engagement below reconciles to a number: a margin moved, a facility financed, a system corporatised, a sector taken to market, an exit returned. The record spans regulated infrastructure, healthcare, and private equity across the United Kingdom and the Gulf.

Transactions & funding
$1.2bn
Private equity exit
2x
EBITDA growth, y‑o‑y
+43%
Projects delivered
$600mn
Health budget reform
$32bn
Utility asset base
$40bn

Selected outcomes

InfrastructureSaudi Arabia

A national sector, taken to market

Mandated under the National Water Strategy 2030 to lead the distribution sector's privatisation: six clusters moving from management contracts to long-term concessions, from business case to financial close. The mandate spans concession design, cluster readiness, the sector PSP plan, and the client-side concession management function.

2026

Public SectorSaudi Arabia

$32 billion health budget, corporatised

Seven years inside the Health Sector Transformation Programme under Vision 2030, architecting the corporatisation into a holding company and 20 care-delivery groups. Built the payer-provider separation, the two-volume capital handbook, and the unified chart of accounts that made national reform operational.

2017 - 2024

HealthcareUK

$500 million in exit value, inside a year

As CFO of Aspen Healthcare, led the 25-year, $300mn sale-and-leaseback with Welltower across four hospitals while operations ran uninterrupted. With the $215mn sale to Tenet Healthcare counselled alongside, the disposal mandate was completed within the year, with reporting to the regional corporate board and the US global board.

2014 - 2015

Private EquityUK

Over 2x PE exit, auction sale

Operating partner in a buy-and-build portfolio, growing it from two companies to five across highway infrastructure, technology, and EV charging. Delivered the exit of APT Controls to SWARCO AG at over 2x cost through a competitive process, leading disposal, due diligence, and sale agreements to completion.

2009 - 2014

InfrastructureSaudi Arabia

$160 million finance transformation, designed

Engaged to make the finance function of a $40bn utility investable. Delivered an eight-initiative, $160mn portfolio with $80mn in modelled benefits, rebuilt the $5.3bn Budget 2026, and released more than $200mn in transformation and concession scopes to market, laying the foundation for the sector's move to concessions.

2025 - Present

HealthcareSaudi Arabia

43 per cent EBITDA growth

Drove the margin and performance turnaround as CFO of a 400-bed Jeddah provider, anchored by a 12 per cent tariff renegotiation with BUPA and Tawuniya. Secured $107mn in credit facilities funding five facilities, all operational today, and designed the approved 25-year, $270mn growth plan.

2016 - 2017

HealthcareUK

$120 million cancer centre, delivered

Prepared the feasibility study and investment appraisal for The London Clinic's Cancer Centre from inception to the inauguration by HM Queen Elizabeth II, within the $500mn+ Quantum Leap estate renewal. Alongside, lifted EBITDA margin from 20 per cent to 27 per cent and cut debtor days from 47 to 35.

2002 - 2009

InfrastructureSaudi Arabia

Concession gates, anchored in law

Built the commercial gate architecture anchoring water purchase, transmission, treatment, and long-term O&M agreements in Saudi PSP law. Co-authored the concession RFP as a member of the technical committee, the tender that now brings the sector to market.

2025 - 2026

The advisory practice is built on this record: capital strategy, finance transformation, governance, and concession finance for boards that need ambition translated into bankable, governable execution.