Simon Edwards

Simon Edwards is the Chief Financial Officer of Dubai International Capital, responsible for overseeing the finance function including financial accounting and reporting, management accounting, taxation and treasury.
Prior to joining Dubai International Capital, Simon Edwards was Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of b-business partners, an Amsterdam-based venture capital/private equity firm.
Before b-business partners, he spent almost eight years in the telecommunications sector, initially at Cable & Wireless in London where he held a number of senior M&A and operational finance roles and was involved in establishing new fixed line and mobile telecommunications companies around the globe.
He spent a year on secondment to Mercury Communications, C&W’s UK subsidiary, then became Chief Financial Officer of PLD Telekom Inc, a NASDAQ-listed telecoms company based in New York.
Simon Edwards began his career at Shell International Petroleum, where he worked as a project engineer on a variety of on- and offshore oil and gas development projects, before joining Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked as a management consultant specialising in the communications, media and broadcasting sectors.
Simon Edwards holds a first class honours degree in Chemical Engineering from University College London.