Asad Naqvi is a Managing Director at Apis, a private equity fund specializing in financial services and financial technology investments in growth markets. Asad is actively involved in originating, executing and managing the firm’s investments.

Prior to Apis, Asad was a Partner at Wolfensohn Fund Management, the financial services focused private equity fund founded by James Wolfensohn (former World Bank President). Asad headed Wolfensohn’s London office and managed several of the firm’s financial services investments, ranging from consumer finance lenders to stock exchanges. Previously, Asad was the Director of Acquisitions & Investments at The Resource Group (TRG), a global investment holding company, and started his career at Lazard where he worked on over 10 M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $14 billion. Asad has served on the Board of Directors of several investee companies, and has spoken on issues of financial inclusion and innovation at several industry events.

Asad holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.