Michael McKinlay
Executive Director, Private Equity

Prior to joining Ithmaar Bank, Mr. McKinlay founded and led Stormberg Partners WLL, a GCC based advisory firm directed at the Chairmen and CEOs of leading family groups in the region. Before that, Mr. McKinlay had spent 15 years in wealth management ‘start ups’, working inter alia for Credit Suisse and HSBC, establishing operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Jersey and the UAE. He also served 10 years as a transactional commercial banker with what is now JP Morgan in positions of country leadership. Mr. McKinlay has 20 years of experience in the GCC dealing with investors in a range of asset classes. He has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and is an Alumnus of the London Business School’s Investment Management Programme.