Founder and Principal
Kifah Semaan
Capital assets are won or lost long before the first contract is signed. Kifah Semaan has spent more than twenty years where that happens, and has seen each asset through to the day it opens.
A global capital delivery executive, he has been the execution authority leadership turns to before an investment committee. Through opportunity screening, concept validation and pre-investment diligence, he has carried forward the investments that could be delivered, and filtered out those that were capital-inefficient or carried too much risk.
Then he has seen them through: execution-led feasibility, CapEx realism, delivery strategy and in-country risk, carried end to end through construction to an operating, revenue-generating asset.
Four sectors
Aviation
Terminals, runways and airside infrastructure
Ports and maritime
Terminals and trade-enabling infrastructure
Infrastructure
Economic zones, industrial platforms, utilities and roads
Mixed-use development
Master-planned communities, commercial and residential developments
He has built the functions that make delivery repeatable, from a central pre-construction function to a business development function, and led the turnaround of an infrastructure division.
Thirteen countries
- The Gulf and the Middle EastUnited Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt
- AfricaAngola, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon
- Asia and the CaucasusPakistan, Georgia, Singapore, Vietnam
Melkaris puts that judgment on your side of the table, from the first question of what to build to the day the asset goes live.
Education and affiliations
- MSc and BSc in Civil Engineering, University of Balamand
- Project Management Institute
- Lebanese Syndicate of Architects and Engineers