Leadership

Ifty Islam

Chairman

The Firm is led by Ifty Islam, the Founder Chairman at Asian Tiger Capital Partners and Co-Founder of Red Green Consulting (RGC), investment banking firms based in Dhaka and London respectively. Ifty was the advisor to the China Consortium on the 25% strategic partner investment by the Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchanges in the Dhaka Stock Exchange. AT Capital also has a joint venture partnership with leading Chinese Fintech Kingdom Shenzhen Sci. Tech. focused on capital markets technology. He is also the CoFounder of Infiniti Tech, a UK-based technology company. Prior to this, Ifty was the CEO and co-founder of Miup, a University of Tokyo based Health AI company that has developed a primary healthcare platform to leverage AI and big data technologies to promote pre-emptive medicine in the battle against NCDs. Ifty has a passion for technology and has been working as an advisor and investor in innovative startup companies. Prior to establishing AT Capital in 2007, Ifty was a Managing Director at Citigroup, London from 2004-2007 where he was Head of Macro Strategy/Hedge Fund Research. From 1997-2004 Ifty spent 8 years at Deutsche Bank Securities in London and New York, latterly as Managing Director and Chief US Strategist. He graduated from the Queen's College, Oxford with a BA/MA (First Class) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.



Khurram Waheed

Partner & Managing Director, Investment Banking (Middle East & South Asia)

Khurram is Partner & Managing Director, Investment Banking (Middle East and South Asia) and the Head of Conventional & Renewable Energy and Healthcare at Asian Tiger Capital Partners. He is a seasoned corporate advisor and financer with over 20 years of green & conventional Energy, Healthcare, Infrastructure and sustainability experience. Throughout his career, Khurram has been involved in or led advisory in several transactions in Middle East, Africa, Turkey, Europe and Asia in sectors ranging from Oil & Gas, Power & Water, Healthcare & Life Science, Infrastructure and Mobility/transportation. Prior to joining AT Capital, Khurram served as Managing Director, Corporate Finance for Dalma Capital in Dubai; as Executive Director, International Banking for First Abu Dhabi (FAB); and has worked with other international banks such as Barclays and Emirates NBD. He was involved with electricity privatization program of GCC country, structured National Oil Co acquisition transaction, many PPP/renewables power transactions, govt. healthcare financing program etc. Khurram has an ex. Master in Finance with Distinction (Top 10%) from HEC, Paris and also has an MBA with specialization in Finance & Marketing from ICFAI Business School. He is also an Mphil candidate, and his research topic is “From Shareholders’ Capitalism to Stakeholders’ Capitalism: Transition of Private Capital into ESG-based Investments/Responsible Investments”.



Sohel Rahman

Chief Executive Officer

Sohel is the Chief Executive Officer at Asian Tiger Capital Partners, leading the finance and accounts, business strategy & development, business operations, and human resource management and administration teams of the Group. He is also CEO of the Group’s asset management company. An alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley, the Mitsubishi-UFG Finance and Capital Markets Group, and the International Data Group -- he is an internationally certified expert in strategic business management and industrial psychology with differentiated specialization in behavioral finance, market psychology, trading psychology, heuristics, consumer psychographics, psychometric assessment, and neurocognitive and behavioral systems. He has 34 years of extensive international and local management and financial leadership and advisory experience across a spectrum of corporate practice areas ranging from finance and manufacturing, to education and enterprise IT.