Houssem Kheder is Founding and Managing Partner at Emergence Partners. He has 20 years of experience in Private Equity, investment banking and financial advisory gained at Swicorp Private Equity, KPMG Paris and UBS Paris

At Emergence, he has advised clients on domestic and cross-border M&A, fundraising and debt raising transactions in the fields of private education, healthcare, agribusiness, packaging and financial services

Prior to that, he held an Investment Manager position within Swicorp Private Equity investment team, managing circa USD 220m. While at Swicorp, he executed several PE deals in consumer goods, logistics and packaging industries in Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey. Previous experiences include KPMG and UBS investment bank in Paris

Mr. Kheder holds a Master of Science in finance from EM Lyon Business School, Lyon, France and a Bachelor of Science in management from IHEC Carthage, Tunis

Mr. Kheder is based in Tunis, he speaks French, English and Arabic