Our team comprises of individuals from varying backgrounds including financial services, venture capital and technology. With our expertise, we’ve helped some daring businesses grow.
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Salaal is the Managing Partner and CEO of Infiniti VC B.V. ("Infiniti VC"). Salaal is tasked with helping Infiniti VC scale globally via investments in high-growth businesses that solve for the economic needs of their markets and deliver sustainable, de-risked returns for its’ stakeholders.
In 2022, Salaal was appointed as the youngest member of the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s Task Force on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Advisory Council for IT & Telecom in 2022.
He serves as Director Venture Capital at the JS Group ("JS"). Salaal also currently serves as a Board Member for technology start-ups Decibel HRMS (HR-tech), Ailaaj (health-tech), Knowledge Platform (ed-tech), Brandverse (e-commerce) and kuickpay (fin-tech). Salaal serves as a member of the Advisory Board to invygo (mobility), State Affairs (media-tech), THE LIST (E-commerce).
He served as a Member - Board of Director’s at JS Global Capital Limited (listed on the PSX) and Chair – IT & Digitization Committee. During his tenure as a Board Member — JS Global Capital delivered Pakistan’s first technology IPO (largest private sector IPO to date) of Airlink Communications Private Limited raising USD 37+ Mn in an over-subscribed offering. Prior to JS, Salaal was at PE+ Capital Advisors in Dubai, where he was a part of the investment team and specialized in venture capital in MENA and EU based high-growth companies. Salaal started his career at the World Bank in Islamabad.
He earned his B.Eng. (Honours) in Chemical Engineering & Business Management from the University of Birmingham where he was awarded an excellence scholarship. He was schooled at Stowe School (UK) and Aitchison College (PK) where he received academic colors and led the basketball and cricket teams.
He is passionate about technology diplomacy as a way of democratizing access to information and services for his nation.
Salaal is the Managing Partner and CEO of Infiniti VC B.V. ("Infiniti VC"). Salaal is tasked with helping Infiniti VC scale globally via investments in high-growth businesses that solve for the economic needs of their markets and deliver sustainable, de-risked returns for its’ stakeholders.
In 2022, Salaal was appointed as the youngest member of the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s Task Force on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Advisory Council for IT & Telecom in 2022.
He serves as Director Venture Capital at the JS Group ("JS"). Salaal also currently serves as a Board Member for technology start-ups Decibel HRMS (HR-tech), Ailaaj (health-tech), Knowledge Platform (ed-tech), Brandverse (e-commerce) and kuickpay (fin-tech). Salaal serves as a member of the Advisory Board to invygo (mobility), State Affairs (media-tech), THE LIST (E-commerce).
He served as a Member - Board of Director’s at JS Global Capital Limited (listed on the PSX) and Chair – IT & Digitization Committee. During his tenure as a Board Member — JS Global Capital delivered Pakistan’s first technology IPO (largest private sector IPO to date) of Airlink Communications Private Limited raising USD 37+ Mn in an over-subscribed offering. Prior to JS, Salaal was at PE+ Capital Advisors in Dubai, where he was a part of the investment team and specialized in venture capital in MENA and EU based high-growth companies. Salaal started his career at the World Bank in Islamabad.
He earned his B.Eng. (Honours) in Chemical Engineering & Business Management from the University of Birmingham where he was awarded an excellence scholarship. He was schooled at Stowe School (UK) and Aitchison College (PK) where he received academic colors and led the basketball and cricket teams.
He is passionate about technology diplomacy as a way of democratizing access to information and services for his nation.
Steve serves as the Managing Director of Infiniti VC.
Steve also serves as Director of JS Group where he oversees the JS private equity business, which has raised and managed two funds investing in Pakistan. He is also responsible for JS activities internationally.
Steve has been a director of Jahangir Siddiqui & Company, JS Group’s investment holding company, and JS Bank (both Pakistan-listed companies) and is a director of Jura Energy Corporation, JS Group’s Toronto-listed upstream energy company, as well as various private companies where JS Group is invested.
Prior to JS, Steve helped found Techpacific Capital, a Hong Kong firm investing in early-stage Asian technology companies. He led the investment team for 2 years before being promoted to CFO after Techpacific’s IPO.
Steve has a joint honours degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Bristol and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young, London. He has worked in London, Hong Kong and Dubai.
(HE) Ali J. Siddiqui serves as the Ambassador-at-Large for Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") for Pakistan, previously serving as the Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States until December 2018 and as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan with the status of Minister of State.
Prior to his term in government, he founded and chaired the board of JS Bank, which is Pakistan’s fastest growing banking institution, and JS Private Equity Management which is Pakistan’s largest domestic private equity asset management firm. Previously, he was based in Hong Kong and was a Director with Crosby Capital, an Asian private equity asset management firm where Mr. Siddiqui and his colleagues were responsible for investing into and growing some of Asia’s largest technology companies.
In addition to founding JS Bank, (HE) Siddiqui built several successful businesses in partnership with other entrepreneurs including Airblue which is Pakistan’s second largest airline and AGSI which is the second largest steel producer in the United Arab Emirates. He served on the Advisory Board of Afiniti (AI) till 2021.
He received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Ahileas is an investor and venture capitalist. He is the principal of a proprietary investment firm managing controlling stakes in consumer companies.
He is a founding investor in Kepler, The Long Drink Company, Kyoot, State Affairs, Onda, and formerly in Radish Fiction (sold to Kakao Entertainment) and Frontier Car Group (sold to OLX).
Ahileas serves as an Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Diesel and Duke Holding LLC, as well as on the board of directors of Kepler Global Holdings B.V. and its MEA and China corporate subsidiaries.
He holds a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude, phi beta kappa, and with double honors in Philosophy and Economics from New York University.
Andreas Skorski is the founder and CEO of THE LIST, the Middle East’s leading marketplace for luxury goods. Currently based in Dubai, UAE. Andreas started his first tech company in Germany at the age of 17 and has since successfully founded and invested in several lifestyle and tech start-ups.
Prior to launching THE LIST, he founded Rocket and Sons - a boutique private equity investment corporation for digital start-ups, technology and ventures in the MENA region. In addition, he is also the co-founder of V Media Group, Australia’s most respected marketing agency.
He received his Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Business and Management from Middlesex University.
Brady Evan Burns founded Olympia Media Group, a content and marketing company for Millennials in 2009. The company, which operates The Odyssey, enables community thought leaders to create and distribute content across multiple platforms. The Odyssey currently has 20-50 content creators in each community and is expanding to 400 universities. Notable clients include Procter &Gamble and Red Bull Media House.
In 2018, Burns co-founded The Long Drink Company, a top selling category of alcohol in Finland and is currently leading the company as CEO. Furthermore, in 2020, he expanded his portfolio in the beverages sector by co-founding AniEnergy, an energy drink with vitamins and caffeine from green coffee beans to promote all-day energy.
He received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from IndianaUniversity Bloomington.
Hannia was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, for Enterprise Technology in 2021, particularly for her accomplishments as one of the lead product managers of Pakistan's pandemic tech response under the Digital Pakistan initiative. She launched a WhatsApp bot to spread Covid-19 awareness in seven local languages that has connected to 500,000 users and was endorsed by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Hannia also grew the Health Ministry's Facebook page from a hundred-fold to 1.8 million followers. Prime Minister of Pakistan recognized her for her contributions with a WHENTK award.
Hannia is a former Google product manager with several patents under her name and was responsible for launching the GooglePay app in Singapore, which was integrated with top banks for peer-to-peer payments with open banking. She was also responsible for advising regulators on building payment systems and open APIs. She holds multiple mentorship positions notably for ‘Venture for Pakistan’, ‘Code for Pakistan’ and various start-ups.
She received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science & Psychology from Yale University.
Seung-Yoon Lee co-founded Radish, a mobile platform for reading and publishing bite-sized fiction stories which enables writers to monetize their content through micro payments. Radish was acquired by Kakao Entertainment for $440million in 2021, however Seung-Yoon held onto his role as Radish’s CEO, while also taking on the responsibility of becoming Kakao Entertainment’s Global Strategy Officer, overseeing the firm's global strategy, investment activities, and M&A opportunities.
For his commitment to media innovation, Seung-Yoon was recognised by Forbes as one of the members of the inaugural class of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2017.
Before launching Radish, Seung-Yoon founded Byline, the world’s most visited crowd funded journalism platform. As its CEO, he secured exclusive interviews with media thinkers like Noam Chomsky, Julian Assange, Sir Harold Evans, and others.
He received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, where he was the first East Asian President of the Oxford Union.
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