Wholly owned ventures
Built and scaled with our own capital and execution.
About
Montfort
A premium holding and venture-building company focused on creating scalable businesses and enduring value across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
Who we are
Built on disciplined execution, strategic partnerships and long-term thinking, Montfort develops ventures with clear positioning, structured ownership models and the operating focus required to scale.
Its portfolio spans hospitality and wellness, entertainment, sustainable infrastructure, advisory and brand-growth services. We don’t build around short-term trends; we build around market relevance, strong partnerships and scalable operating models, each investment developed with strategic clarity, governance and accountability.
- Venture development
- Creating and structuring scalable businesses with clear positioning, ownership models and operating focus.
- Partnerships and investment
- Backing investments where Montfort contributes capital, market access, structure and execution.
- Portfolio management
- Driving performance and long-term value through governance, accountability and strategic clarity.
Rooted in the Kingdom. Built for the Region.
We focus on sectors where market transformation, premium positioning and long-term growth potential intersect.
Saudi ArabiaUAEQatarKuwaitBahrainOman
Hospitality and entertainment
Tourism, lifestyle and live experiences
Green energy
Sustainable infrastructure and BIPV
Business advisory
Strategy and transformation
Brand growth
Marketing and creative services
Strategic clarity
Focused opportunities and clear priorities.
Disciplined execution
Strong governance and accountability.
Strong partnerships
Trusted local and global relationships.
Sustainable growth
Long-term value over short-term gains.
Vision
To build a diversified portfolio of enduring businesses that create long-term value across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
Mission
To identify high-potential ventures, structure them for long-term value, and support them with the capital, partnerships and operating discipline required to scale.
Khalid AboudFounder & Managing Director
Message from the founder
Our ambition is not simply to build businesses that succeed in our time, but to build an institution worthy of the generations that come after us.
Khalid Aboud founded Montfort with a clear ambition: to build businesses that create meaningful value today while remaining strong enough to matter tomorrow.
His career spans more than a decade of leadership across commercial strategy, business development, operations, market expansion and P&L management in Saudi Arabia, working across complex industrial markets and with major public- and private-sector organizations.
Built for What Comes After Us
When I founded Montfort, I did not want to create another company whose success would be measured only by its size, revenue, or visibility. I wanted to build an institution.
An institution with the ambition to grow, certainly, but also with the discipline to know why it is growing, the confidence to decline opportunities that are not right for it, and the patience to build capabilities before pursuing scale.
Business will always change. Industries will evolve. Technologies will advance, markets will open, and opportunities we cannot foresee today will emerge. Montfort must be capable of changing with them. But there are things I believe should remain constant: the value of our word, the quality of our work, the fairness of our dealings, the responsibility we accept for our decisions, and the respect we show to the people who place their confidence in us.
These principles are not separate from commercial success. I believe they are what make sustainable commercial success possible.
I also believe that no company truly endures because of one person. A founder may establish the direction, but an institution is ultimately built by the people who carry its responsibilities, improve its systems, challenge its thinking, develop those who follow them, and leave what they received stronger than they found it.
Our ambition for Montfort is therefore larger than building a collection of successful businesses. We want to create ventures that solve real needs, partnerships that deserve to last, opportunities through which capable people can grow, and businesses whose presence leaves their markets better than they found them.
There will be moments when the faster decision is not the better decision, when an attractive opportunity is not the right opportunity, and when protecting a standard costs more than compromising it. Those moments will reveal more about Montfort than any statement written on a website.
My responsibility as founder is therefore not simply to determine where Montfort goes. It is to help ensure that, as Montfort grows, it never loses the reason it deserves to continue.
That is what Built to Endure means to me.
Khalid Aboud
Founder & Managing Director, Montfort
Our approach
Built to endure, step by step.
A disciplined path from first opportunity to long-term value, applied consistently across every investment in the portfolio.
- Identify
High-potential opportunities with real market relevance.
- Structure
The right ownership, governance and operating model.
- Partner
Trusted local and global relationships.
- Execute
Accountability and disciplined delivery.
- Scale
Sustainable growth over short-term gains.
Fit-for-purpose ownership.
We match each investment to the ownership, partnership and advisory model that best serves the opportunity.
Joint ventures
Co-built with aligned partners who share capital, structure and execution.
Strategic partnerships
Alliances where we contribute capital, market access, structure and execution.
Strategic stakes
Selected positions in investments where Montfort adds genuine value.
Contact
Let’s build what endures.
Whether you are a founder, investor, operator or partner, we would like to hear about the opportunity.
- General inquiriesinfo@montfortuk.com
- For investmentinvestment@montfortuk.com
- Strategic Partnershipspartnerships@montfortuk.com
- Phone & WhatsApp+966 50 818 7145
- Head officeRiyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia