Fareed Asadi became Chairman in 2009. He joined Black Pearl Capital from Julius Baer, where he was founder and global head of the Client Advisory Group. In that role, he was responsible for establishing and managing a unit focused on the bank's largest and most sophisticated clients.

Fareed brings 17 years of financial experience in asset management and advisory services with a focus on global equities, structured products and real estate. Prior to joining JB, Fareed was at Credit Suisse, Zurich for three years starting in 2003 as part of CS Investment Partners, a team focused on large and global clients. He co-founded a private venture capital firm in 2000 that focused on IT in the MENA Region. Fareed was also at Morgan Stanley, London from 1996 to 2000 as a member of PWM team focused on the Middle East.

Fareed has a BSc from City University of New York in Management & Computing and an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Reza co-founded Black Pearl Capital along with Reza Abbas Jafarian. Together they had previously set-up Symphony Partners Plc in 2001, a UK based real estate and asset advisory firm.

Reza was previously with the Albert Abela Corporation as one of the youngest executives sitting on the Board of both Sogeres SA and the Abela Corporation. (Abela is one the largest privately held catering companies with over 42,000 employees and 40 offices worldwide).

In 1994, Reza partnered with Po Sang Bank, an affiliate of the Bank of China, to create a global financial services group. Prior, Reza managed the UK arm of MKS Finance SA, Management Investment & Trade Ltd ("MIT"). Under his management, MIT fleetly became a dominant force in the OTC foreign exchange markets increasing the company's daily trading volumes 10 times to an excess of $8 billion.

Reza graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Engineering and Commerce.

In 2007, Abbas Jafarian co-founded Black Pearl Capital. He did this on the heels of co-founding Symphony Partners Plc, a real estate and asset advisory firm that continues to be part of BPC today. At Symphony Partners, Abbas helped source and structure over several hundred million Euros of real estate and private equity deals within the euro-zone for a number of the firm's clients.  

Until he set up BPC, he sat on the investment committee of several large investment trusts that managed over $2 billion in a diversified portfolio of publicly quoted investments, real-estate and private equity investments.

Since 2006, Abbas assisted several prominent financial institutions in Europe to increase their funds under management globally with a special focus on Latin America. Over this period, he helped raise several billion dollars from the region. Previously, Abbas was an investment executive at Morgan Stanley in London.

In 1992, he qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and Touche. Abbas received his MBA from London Business School in 1998 and has an undergraduate degree in business administration and international relations.

Jean Paul is a partner and board member of Black Pearl Capital . His industry knowledge spans both the commodities and healthcare areas. He brings with him 20 years of senior and entrepreneurial management experience that has seen him start several successful businesses in the emerging markets, including a healthcare business that focuses on providing occupational health care for more than a 1,000 companies where he is still CEO. This is a featured case study for emerging healthcare business models in the Harvard Business Review.

He has served on the boards of several financial institutions in Latin America and over the past four years has been working on several mining projects in Africa and Latin America. He has been a guest speaker in many different conferences worldwide on Social entrepreneurship, as well as acting as a government advisor on social security issues, and personally finances schools and healthcare and social projects in both continents . JP attended UNIMET university in Venezuela where he studied Business Administration.