Nabil Katabi

Project Finance Director

Nabil Katabi leads project finance and commercial structuring for MMEX, with responsibility for financial negotiations with lenders and private equity partners and for commercial and offtake negotiations with multinational companies and trading houses.

He has worked alongside Jack Hanks for more than thirty years, dating back to the Aguaytia gas and power project in Peru. He led the buyout of Maple Energy’s refining assets in the Peruvian Amazon and the strategic development of the Pucallpa refinery operations, and directed the development and financing of a sugar cane to ethanol project.

His current focus is the development and financing of refining and power assets in the West Texas Permian Basin.

Education: MBA, Columbia Business School; Master’s in Political Science and International Relations, La Sorbonne, Paris; International Business and Finance, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris

Areas of expertise: Project finance, capital structuring, commercial and offtake negotiation, international project development