Leadership Commitment
“Since its formation, Investcorp was built on diversity and inclusion with our founding leadership comprising professionals from around the world with Middle Eastern, Turkish and American roots. We continue to build on this legacy today as our firm operating committee comprises 11 members hailing from eight different countries across four continents. Given Investcorp’s global origin and reach, maintaining and promoting a diverse and inclusive environment is a key priority. We recognize that this will be an ongoing journey as we continue to champion diversity at our firm and across our portfolios, drawing on each and every person’s unique background and experiences for the social good of our constituencies.”
Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman
Leadership Commitment
“Diversity and inclusion are core elements for Investcorp to ensure our world-class talent and unique culture continue to be key competitive advantages. We recognize the importance of having diverse perspectives represented across our Firm and maintaining an inclusive work environment that empowers our people to deliver the best solutions for our clients. To us, diversity & inclusion is a journey and we are focused on strengthening our practices across all levels of our organization.”
Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman
Key Statistics*
*As of June 2020
Diverse Global Representation
+450
Employees
0
Nationalities
- American
- Bahraini
- British
- Indian
- French
- German
- Italian
- Saudi
- Singaporean
- Chinese
- New Zealand
- Pakistani
- Spanish
- Irish
- Canadian
- Jordanian
- Swedish
- Greek
- Lebanese
- South African
- Korean
- Turkish
- Japanese
- Filipino
- Tunisian
- Palestinian
- Indonesian
- Omani
- Norway
- Brazilian
- Austrian
- Algerian
- Yemeni
- Lithuanian
- Kenyan
- U.A.E.
- Dutch
- Belgian
- Portuguese
- Polish
- Bulgarian
- Montenegrin
- Libyan
- Costa Rico
Global Gender
31%
Women
69%
Men
Average Age Profile
40yrs
Women
40yrs
Men
40yrs
Global
Gender Per Location
Current Age Profile
Years
“Diversity is the appreciation of differences between individuals and how their perspectives, attributes and characteristics can help organizations achieve their goals.”
Yong Ching Tang
Investor Relationship Management
Investor Relationship Management
“Embracing diversity means taking the time to understand differences among people and appreciating what makes them unique. A diverse culture enables individuals to be themselves and supports the growth of unique qualities. In return, diverse cultures achieve greater creativity, more flexible problem solving, increased collaboration, and a stronger, more unified team.”
Heather Mutterperl
Real Estate
Real Estate
“Diversity and inclusion is essential to growth in any workplace. It allows for more productive discussions and creative decisions, and empowers employees to perform their best work”
Sagar Vira
Credit Management
Credit Management
“I think 'Diversity & Inclusion' empowers more collaboration, better decision making, and higher performance. It is the right choice and the smart choice for Investcorp.”
Kevin Zhu
Technology
Technology
“Diversity and inclusion broaden an organisation’s talent pool and breed innovation through a wider collection of experiences which, when fused together, provide a fertile environment for diverse cognitive thinking. In my view, this is what drives success”
Fortune Chigwende
Internal Audit
Internal Audit
“Diversity, whether it is background, experience, skill set or perspective, is paramount to the success of business organizations in today’s world. We have to warmly embrace it.”
Owen Li
Private Equity Europe
Private Equity Europe
“Diversity is the truest form of equality. It creates an environment where different thought-processes come together in the most seamless manner and the learning and growth is more than expected.”
Anjana Sinha
Legal & Compliance
Legal & Compliance
“Each of us brings a unique perspective and expertise, but everyone sees the whole world as a marketplace.”
Andrea Davis
Private Equity, Europe
Private Equity, Europe
Key Highlights
Talent Acquisition
Our approach to hiring focuses on securing world-class talent with strong values and diverse representation across backgrounds, genders and socioeconomic status. Effective fiscal year 2021, all open positions are required to shortlist a 50% minimum of diverse candidates.
Training & Development
All employees and new hires undergo unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion training on an annual basis. In addition, Investcorp holds regular interactive workshops to further strengthen awareness and improve diversity and inclusion.
Enhanced Policies
We consistently review and enhance our internal policies to ensure that our employee benefits and resources furthers our organization’s strategic priority of taking care of our employees through an integrated approach to healthcare, wellness and work-life flexibility.
Diverse team
We are committed to fostering an open, inclusive and diverse culture, which starts with mutual understanding, transparency and dialogue. As such, we have appointed a diversity lead for each of our offices to ensure that diversity measures are taken and being enhanced across the Firm with a focus on each geography.
