LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY

NuCassa’s leadership model rejects the “generalist” approach common in traditional real-estate organisations.

Instead, responsibility is distributed across clearly defined executive roles, each accountable for a specific pillar of institutional performance.

This model enables:

• Clear decision authority
• Reduced execution risk
• Strong governance accountability
• Institutional-grade transparency

Every executive role exists to reinforce long-term value creation.

Gerardo Gonnella is the architect of NuCassa’s vision, governance philosophy, and institutional identity.

His leadership defines the Fund’s alignment with UAE national strategy, global sustainability trends, and Tier-1 investor expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining NuCassa’s long-term mission
• Overseeing governance and ESG alignment
• Ensuring strategic partnership quality
• Embedding sustainability into fund philosophy
• Chairing the Investment & Governance Committee
• Leading sovereign and institutional relationships

Leadership style:
Visionary, governance-driven, structurally disciplined.

NuCassa was built to be more than a fund it was designed as a sustainable luxury institution representing the future of UAE real estate.

Arif Tosun leads NuCassa with the mindset of a championship race strategist combining speed, precision, and consistency under pressure.

His role is to transform strategy into controlled, high-performance execution while maintaining zero-tolerance governance standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Operational execution
• Performance control
• Team leadership
• Compliance discipline
• Stakeholder alignment
• Multi-project coordination
• Strategic scaling

Leadership strengths:

• Zero-tolerance governance
• High-speed decision-making
• Institutional execution discipline
• Strategic planning mastery

Arif Tosun ensures NuCassa operates like an elite global institution, not a conventional developer.

Rebecca Daoud is responsible for shaping NuCassa’s long-term investment identity and capital allocation discipline.

Key responsibilities include:

• Market intelligence and macroeconomic analysis
• Asset evaluation and selection
• Capital allocation strategy
• Risk-adjusted decision-making
• Valuation and financial modelling
• Asset lifecycle forecasting

Core strengths:

• Strategic foresight
• Global market awareness
• Data-driven decision-making
• Advanced financial modelling

Rebecca Daoud ensures NuCassa invests only in assets capable of delivering multi-decade value and institutional resilience.

Omar Baraky ensures NuCassa remains the ESG leader in super-luxury development.

This role governs sustainability engineering, environmental performance, and ethical compliance across all developments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Sustainability engineering review
• Supplier ESG verification
• Environmental performance modelling
• Compliance with global ESG standards
• Lifecycle sustainability oversight

Core strengths:

• Deep ESG expertise
• Environmental systems integration
• Sustainable materials intelligence
• Ethical governance discipline

Omar Baraky ensures every NuCassa development becomes a next-generation ESG benchmark.

Henry Landridge is responsible for delivering transparency, governance, and institutional reliability through disciplined financial management.

Key responsibilities include:

• ADGM compliance
• FINMA-aligned reporting
• Capital management
• Financial risk governance
• Investor reporting
• Audit and control discipline

Core strengths:

• Institutional-level reporting expertise
• Compliance mastery
• Data-driven financial leadership

Henry Landridge ensures NuCassa meets the highest global standards of financial governance.

Haidara Ali is responsible for safeguarding NuCassa’s regulatory integrity, risk discipline, and compliance framework across all jurisdictions in which the Group operates.

Key responsibilities include:

• Enterprise risk management and risk framework design
• ADGM regulatory compliance and ongoing supervision
• FINMA-aligned compliance oversight and documentation controls
• AML, KYC, and counterparty risk governance
• Regulatory reporting, policy enforcement, and audit readiness
• Oversight of internal controls, breaches, and remediation processes
   

Core strengths:

• Institutional-grade compliance and risk governance expertise
• Deep understanding of cross-border regulatory frameworks
• Strong documentation, control, and audit discipline
• Data-driven risk assessment and mitigation methodologies
   

Haidara Ali ensures that NuCassa operates within a robust, transparent, and institutionally defensible risk and compliance framework protecting investor interests while enabling disciplined, long-term growth.