Dhruva Poonia

Director, Investments and Project Finance
Tamasuk Holding Company

Biography

Dhruva is Director of Project Finance at Tamasuk, working from Riyadh and Dubai. He has over 16 years of experience in the field of energy and infrastructure finance, and financial modelling.

Dhruva’s role includes securing financing, leading financial structuring, and conducting financial due diligence for Tamasuk’s project development and investment activities. During his tenure at Tamasuk, he has supported raising over $4.3bn of non-recourse debt financing across multiple projects from a variety of Saudi and international lenders. He has also been instrumental in leading the financial due diligence for Tamasuk’s successful acquisitions of operating renewable assets in the Middle East.

Before joining Tamasuk in 2018, Dhruva had built, led, and grown some of the world’s best financial modelling advisory teams with a focus on infrastructure projects and project finance transactions supporting their clients all over the world.

Dhruva holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an MBA in finance.

Speaker at these events:

Capital Markets & ESG Finance Saudi Arabia 2023

• Saudi Arabia’s PPP from start to finish: How international investors and developers get a privatisation deal done

Capital Markets Saudi Arabia 2022

• Channelling domestic wealth into domestic projects: Understanding the key players, frameworks and incentives to build the Saudi project finance market from within