OUR PEOPLE
Founders
Our leadership team represents a combined 100+ years’ of experience, having advised on or raised over $1 trillion in capital for corporates, financial institutions, sovereigns and supranational entities across the world.
FOUNDING PARTNER
Mark Aplin
Mark has over 25 years of financing experience and has provided independent advice since 2008. Mark has advised on over US$ 90 billion of transactions in the sovereign, oil and gas, financial institutions, metals and mining, power and utilities, infrastructure, telecom and technology sectors.
FOUNDING PARTNER
Ahmet Bekçe
Ahmet has over 32 years of international banking experience at Citi. He has held number of senior leadership positions in global products as well as Corporate & Investment Banking. Ahmet left Citi in October 2022.
FOUNDING PARTNER
Atiq Rehman
Atiq has 37 years of international banking experience at Citi. During this period, he has held several senior leadership positions in regional management and global products.
SENIOR ADVISOR
Glen Ireland
Glen has over 34 years’ experience in advising mining companies, financial institutions, governments and other stakeholders on significant mining projects and transactions.
SENIOR ADVISOR
Philip Cullingworth
Philip has over 35 years of local and international banking experience, and has held a number of leadership positions in risk and portfolio management in both emerging and developed markets.
DIRECTOR
Maciej Bartosinski
Maciej joined RB&A Partners in 2023, bringing over 10 years of experience in the project and corporate finance space, where he worked on assignments covering power, water, refining, LNG, telecom, transportation and mining sectors.
VICE PRESIDENT
Luke Taylor
Luke joined RB&A Partners in 2023 bringing over 10 years of experience in project finance and corporate finance advisory roles.
ASSOCIATE
Omar Nakouzi
Omar joined RB&A Partners in 2023 bringing 7 years of international banking experience, covering assets and liabilities management, scarce resources steering, and regulatory reporting.
ASSOCIATE
Tondani Netshiavha
Tondani joined RB&A Partners in 2024 bringing 6 years of Corporate and Investment Banking experience whilst working for Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest bank by assets.
ASSOCIATE
Prem Patel
Prem joined RB&A Partners in 2024, bringing over 6 years of experience in Finance and Private Credit, focused on structured credit products namely Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLO) in the European and US markets.
HEAD OF OPERATIONS
Nicole Beechey
Nicole joined RB&A Partners at inception bringing 18 years of international administrative and operations experience.
OPERATIONS
Priya Joshi
Priya joined RB&A Partners Operations Team in 2023, bringing over 12 years of experience across the areas of HR Administration, Office Management and Corporate Banking whilst working for Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Dubai.