Mr Ashraf Hameedi

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Ashraf Hameedi is Venture Partner and Advisor with ePlanet. Mr. Hameedi has 18 years of banking experience, most recently with Goldman Sachs, and previously with Citibank, where he helped global companies value, structure, and finance $100bn of high value strategic investments, mainly in the emerging markets. Mr. Hameedi’s clients have spanned key sectors, including telecoms and media, power, energy, and FMCG, and included private sector companies, financial sponsors, and governments and their related enterprises. In his role as Head of Emerging Markets Structured Finance within Goldman Sachs’ European Finance Group in London, Mr. Hameedi led a number of landmark, award winning capital market financings. In his role as Head of Emerging Markets Financing Strategies within Citigoup’s Corporate and Investment Banking team in London, Mr. Hameedi advised a number of emerging markets based, transformational growth companies to help them manage through their most challenging growth stages, including advising on the important issues of capital structuring, value optimization, and financial risk management. He has led deals and advised clients in Asia (Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia), the Middle East (Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt), Russia, Poland, Turkey, and Africa (South Africa, Nigeria). Mr. Hameedi is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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