Javed Hamid
Chairman - Board of Directors @ SEAF
Javed Hamid is a startup investor at SEAF. Javed Hamid is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SEAF. He joined the Board of SEAF in 2013 and was elected Chairman in 2016. Currently serving as a Senior Advisor to the International Executive Service Corps, Javed spent the majority of his career at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group. At the IFC, Javedserved as a member of the Management Group and Director for the East Asia and Pacific Region. He has also served as senior advisor and board member of several companies across the globe and is a non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Javed has been a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum as well as a contributor to the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and many academic journals. He was a founding director of the first privately-financed university in Pakistan, the Lahore University of Management Sciences.Javed has a degree from the University of Punjab, and advanced degrees from the Harvard Business School and Cambridge University.
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About SEAF
SEAF is an investment firm that provides growth capital and operational support to businesses in emerging markets.It was founded as a private equity investment subsidiary of the development organization CARE. Through the firm's network of office, it invests in entrepreneurs to seek to build successful businesses, hoping to realize bothattractive returns for its investors and a measurable development impact in local communities. SEAF pursues a high impact on economic development through the investment of risk capital in entrepreneurs, coupled with active business partnership and the transfer of knowledge and networks developed over the years of operation.Bert van der Vaart and Tom Drum established the firm in Washington, District of Columbia in 1989.
SEAF Contacts
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Bert van der Vaart
Chairman
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Tom Drum
Global Business Development
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Carlos Cerrato
Managing Director
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Jamal Abisourour
Chief of Party, SEAF Jordan Program
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Javed Hamid
Chairman - Board of Directors
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