OUR TEAM

MARKUS has over 25 years of experience in structured trading and structured finance markets, and has been successful in creating many groundbreaking trades within a wide range of corporate and financial establishments. Markus has established himself as one of the most innovative structured finance professionals in the Middle East. His experience in the structured finance markets has led to the creation of bespoke funding solutions that suit borrowers and lenders alike. Markus can see solutions where others can only see issues.

Markus founded Fius in the summer of 2008 and the company gained its DIFC trade license in November 2009. 

Markus moved to the UAE in 2006 to be Co-Head of Trading for Emirates Bank (now Emirates NBD) Global Markets in charge of Structured Finance Business. Prior to moving to the Gulf, Markus was a partner at London Diversified Fund Management (“LDFM”), a top London Macro Fund. He was previously Head of Credit Trading at Enron Europe, based in London, and managed the structured trading business at Maple Securities (UK). He also held senior trading positions at CSFB, Credit Suisse Financial Products and before that, Society Generale and Royal Bank of Canada.

Markus holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration from Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

MARC has over 20 years experience in Financial Services having initially worked for Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) for 11 years where he qualified as a CPA. He then worked for Credit Suisse (CS) for over 14 years as a Managing Director in a variety of Financial Control roles as well as COO for the EMEA Fixed Income business. In 2011, Marc joined as CFO for Moscow based Renaissance Capital (RC) before moving to ANZ’s EMIA business before ending up in the UAE. For both PWC and CS, he was at various times based in New York, London and Zurich. At CS, RC, ANZ and CBI he was the regulatory approved functional key person.

Prior to joining Fius in 2019, he was CFO for Commercial Bank International (CBI) in Dubai for four years. Marc is based in London.

Marc holds a BS in Business Administration-Accounting and Finance and a Masters of Professional Accountancy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was a two time Big 8 Champion and represented Canada at the World Track and Field Championships. A keen competitive cyclist, Marc established and developed one of the most recognised and successful amateur cycling teams in the UAE.

TOBY comes from a background of formal training in Engineering Management and has been project managing large scale turnkey construction projects, internationally, for over 20 years primarily in Oil & Gas, Military, and Commercial Construction. Most of these projects have been in traditionally difficult locations such as poorly developed countries, politically instable or sensitive and even war-torn or hostile environments.

Toby was a founding Director of one of the largest non-American, US Military Contractors of the last two decades. As Operations Director, he was significantly involved in the oversight, bidding, and project management of more than US$2bn of Construction and O&M contracts. Having developed much of his career as a contractor, he is particularly knowledgeable in how clients can effectively assure the quality of projects performed by their contractors. As an experienced problem solver driving logistical and engineering solutions, Toby recognises the core of a business's issues and risks and tactfully advises its leadership on, not only, what steps are needed, but also on how to take those steps.

Toby holds a Masters Degree in Engineering and Engineering Management (MEng) from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

PAUL has over 30 years of experience, during which time he has been involved in a wide range of major corporate, financial and real estate transactions across the Middle East region. Paul has extensive experience advising on a mixture of M&A, debt and equity capital markets transactions, private placements, joint venture arrangements, inward investment agreements, structured finance offerings, corporate restructurings and investment funds (in both the conventional and Islamic spheres). Paul has also advised financial institutions on a range of regulatory issues. Paul’s clients have included leading multi-national and major local corporations, global financial institutions, arrangers, underwriters and sponsors, governments and quasi-governmental institutions. Paul joined Fius in 2011.

Prior to joining Fius in 2011, Paul worked at SNR Denton where he was a partner in their Corporate and Finance Departments in the Middle East and at Clifford Chance, where he oversaw a practice across the firm's Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices.

Paul holds a Masters in Arts (MA) from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from London University in the UK. Paul is a solicitor (non-practising) of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Marvin values his privacy and would like to maintain his anonymity but is very much a valuable member of the team.

Based in Asia, MARVIN is responsible for Fius' quantitative system development. Marvin has over 30 years of experience in the finance industry and has worked at Salomon, Lehman, ABN Amro and LDFM. His roles have included interest rate derivatives and macro trading, and the development of interest rate and credit derivatives risk management systems and decision support tools.

Marvin holds a Masters degree in Mathematics from the University of London.