Profile: O.D. Kobo

O.D. Kobo is a Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager with more than two decades of experience in large-scale investments and capital markets transactions across Asia, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.

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He has led and participated in structured capital deployments involving sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and private capital groups.

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Mr. Kobo previously directed technology and digital infrastructure investment initiatives in China on behalf of the Qatar Investment Authority, reporting to His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, then Prime Minister of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the Authority.

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He subsequently co-founded PIR Equities, a private equity firm focused on private market investments.

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During this period, he maintained an institutional relationship with China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund of the People’s Republic of China, participating in investments, dispositions and structured transactions.

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Mr. Kobo was born and raised in Hong Kong. He attended Hong Kong International School and later studied business at Regent’s Business School London and finance at the London School of Economics.