Mahdi Shariff (雷锋)
About Mahdi Shariff (雷锋)
Passionate about startups, people and data with an innate curiosity for how we connect and create meaningful relationships and companies that drive positive social impact through the technologies and firms that we build. My background in a nutshell - TMT M&A at EY: Supporting buy-side & sell-side corporates & PE in leading tech, media & telco businesses - CSO at Sunteng: I left my London banking job to join a bootstrapped adtech start-up in China and enjoyed both the highs and challenges of scaling from 15 to 150+ people. Involved in across strategy/corp finance, operations and product and helped set up and integrate with JV teams in Singapore & HK. - Doer at Slush: Led our flagship tech & VC conference, automated & brought event data analytics to improve ops, and managed our key tech, VC/PE & community partners to support GTM - Co-founder at Guanxi: Everything this entails (other than programming the platform itself) and led all BD efforts and acted as the principal transformation & analytics consultant for all projects. In a personal capacity, I've been angel investing and supporting startups (and even a small seed fund!) since I graduated (Tiny.VC, Aire.io, Purple.AI, Pathao, Sheetgo, Silkfred, Noty.AI & JustPark - from London to Bangladesh). I've equally learnt as much outside of work through obsessive reading, online courses and spending a lot of time with fascinating people who build great products. After returning to London, I’m now focused on helping PE & VC backed companies accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and truly harness the power of data, (proper) product management and technology. // Motto to live by: "Smile at the world, and the world will smile back" // Notably passionate about: #Startups #VC #PE #AI #Data #Analytics #Automation #SocialImpact Industries where I've spent time: #EnterpriseSoftware #Adtech #Fintech #Media #EmergingMarkets #China Happy to connect so reach out on @MahdiShariff or book a time here: https://calendly.com/mahdishariff/