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Ali is a financial technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the executive chairman of Lesaka technologies (Nasdaq:LSAK), a leading Southern African fintech. He is the co-founder and chairman of Teya, a leading European fintech unicorn. He is a non-executive director on the board of Thunes (Singapore based fintech) and Kushki (pan-Latin American fintech) and is the president of The European Digital Payments Industry Alliance (EDPIA).
He was previously on the board of several other leading fintech companies globally including StoneCo (Nasdaq: STNE) in Brazil and Network International Holdings Plc (LSE:NETW) in the UAE. He was a partner at Actis, a London based emerging market private equity firm, where he led multiple landmark fintech investments globally. Prior to his career at Actis, Ali advised private equity and corporate clients for OC&C Strategy Consultants in London and served as lead strategy consultant for First National Bank based in Johannesburg.
He holds postgraduate degrees in Economics from the University of Pretoria, Oxford University and the London School of Economics, an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters in Business Law from the University of St Gallen.
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