Mr Ali is the Chief Investment Officer of the Abu Dhabi Capital Group (‘ADCG’). He has been with the Group for nearly a decade and has considerable experience in managing multiple asset classes, investing in mainly listed equities, fixed income and hedge funds globally. In addition, Mr Ali invests in a portfolio of private equity funds and co-investments.Mr Ali sits on the boards of several portfolio companies under the umbrella of ADCG. He is a member of the strategic advisory board for Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings, a private equity fund investing in minority stakes of hedge-fund managers, private equity firms and other financial services related institutions. He is also the Alternate advisory board member in Ares Commercial Finance, an asset-backed direct lending fund in the mid-market space. Mr Ali has recently been appointed as a board observer in Equa Bank, a challenger bank in the Czech Republic.Mr Ali has developed a robust investment strategy on in the technology space for ADCG. The approach has been disciplined in terms of having a good understanding of what is the addressable market, monetisation of the technology and how technology companies can make a difference in the lives of everyday people. Some of the notable investments he made in the transport sector include promising start-ups like BOOM and Virgin Hyperloop early on, and late stage companies like Uber and Didi Chuxing.Mr Ali qualified as a Charter Financial Analyst in 1992, and graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Economics and Political Science.