MKS PAMP

Strategic investments and M&A fall under Tarek Shakarchi, Head of Strategic Opportunities, who oversees business development across the precious metals value chain. The group's mine-finance arm, Pandion Mine Finance, operates as a standalone fund structure with its own board that includes Chief Commercial Officer Omar Liess. Family principals Marwan Shakarchi (Group CEO) and Karma Shakarchi-Liess (Chairwoman) sit atop the governance structure.

MKS PAMP is one of only five LBMA-accredited referees, meaning it audits and certifies the Good Delivery status of gold and silver bars produced by other refiners worldwide. This referee role places the firm inside the standard-setting apparatus of the London bullion market, distinct from its commercial trading and refining activities.

It operates as a corporate investor — an integrated operating group with trading, refining, and minting businesses whose profits support principal investments. Unlike a pure single-family office, MKS PAMP runs commercial subsidiaries generating revenue while also deploying capital into mine finance, digital gold, and early-stage ventures like Seloxium through its balance sheet.

Pandion Mine Finance is an investment structure that provides financing to mining companies, effectively extending private credit to precious metals producers. It is backed by MKS PAMP alongside Ospraie Management, a New York-based commodity-focused investment firm, and sits on the board of Omar Liess.

The group operates a regional headquarters in Hong Kong, trading and distribution offices in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok, and a customer service center in Thailand. In India, the MMTC-PAMP joint venture runs a refinery in Haryana serving the domestic market, making MKS PAMP structurally exposed to the two largest gold-consuming nations — China and India.

Yes. The firm backed DGLD, an early digital gold product, and invested in Seloxium, a University of Oxford spin-out developing technology for recovering valuable metals. Tarek Shakarchi also holds a board seat at Seloxium, and the group's in-house GOLD AVENUE SA operates as an ecommerce platform for physical precious metals.

The family operates Fondation MKS as its philanthropic vehicle. Separately, the group has signed onto the Swiss Board for Agenda 2030, signaling formal commitments to sustainability and ESG reporting, with family member Tamara Jomaa-Shakarchi serving as Head of ESG.