Investors

Hisham Ibrahim

Executive Director, Investment

Malaysia

Hisham serves as an Executive Director at Gobi Partners, focusing on early-stage and growth investments across Southeast Asia.

Before joining Gobi, Hisham co-founded Amsara, a blockchain company specializing in tokenizing real-world assets (RWA). Previously, he worked for Baring Private Equity Asia (now part of EQT Partners), managing private equity and growth investments across Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region. His work included the US$1.6 billion sale of precision manufacturer Interplex to Blackstone. He also served as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia), overseeing the Bank's equity, corporate bonds, and outsourced portfolios across emerging and developed Asia, as well as in the United States and Europe. He has also held positions at ADV Partners, Navis Capital Partners, PwC, and the Strategic Investment Group.

Hisham holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and a BSBA from Georgetown University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).