Chief Financial Officer
Essaid most recently served as global head of M&A at Barclays, after previously serving as the bank's co-head of global M&A and co-head of Americas M&A. He has more than three decades of experience in global investment banking, where he has provided critical advisory services for large M&A and capital markets transactions. While at Barclays from 2021 to 2024, he advised on more than $50 billion of transactions across a range of sectors. Prior to Barclays, Essaid was a managing director of media and telecom M&A at Credit Suisse from 2015 to 2021. Earlier, he was a partner at Perella Weinberg Partners.