Retained search, exclusively for the Kingdom.
FirstMena was founded in Riyadh in 2009 on a simple premise: that executive search in Saudi Arabia deserved advisors who understood the Kingdom's institutions as well as its ambitions. Fifteen years later, we remain focused solely on this market.
Since FirstMena's inception in 2009, Adly Ben Aicha has been instrumental in transforming the firm into a leading recruitment agency in Saudi Arabia. Under his leadership, FirstMena has converted more than 100 corporate and family office clients into active partners, and now fills more than 40 executive positions each year across the Kingdom.
Before joining FirstMena, Adly spent six years as Senior Finance Manager at Swicorp, a Riyadh-headquartered private financial services group providing investment banking, private equity, and asset management solutions across the Middle East and North Africa.
Prior to that, he was an Internal Audit Manager at KPMG in Tunisia, where he handled a range of reporting mandates including SEC reporting, statutory audit reporting, and inter-office opinions under multiple international standards.
This background — spanning finance, audit, and institutional governance — informs how FirstMena evaluates leadership candidates today: not only on track record, but on the financial and governance judgment the Kingdom's most consequential organisations require.