Slim Ouali is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Emergence Partners. He has nearly 18 years of experience in Private Equity, investment banking and financial advisory gained at Swicorp Private Equity and KPMG Paris.

At Emergence, he led diverse transactions involving LBO’s, cross-border M&A, and capital increases for high growth companies in the fields of private education, healthcare, agribusiness and financial services among others. Slim is in charge of the firm’s finance function and leads business development efforts.
Prior to founding Emergence, Slim spent 5 years at Swicorp Private Equity as Vice-president within the finance and operations team. At Swicorp, he played an active role in fund and investments structuring, post-transactions operations and investor relations. He also served as a board member to companies active in packaging, construction materials, cosmetics, energy, etc.
During the first 5 years of his career, he served as manager at KPMG Paris where he executed several due diligence and audit engagements for French blue-ship companies.
Mr. Ouali holds a Master of Science from IAE Aix-en-Provence, France and a Bachelor of Science in management from IHEC Carthage, Tunis.

Slim is based in Tunis, he speaks French, English and Arabic.