Profile: O.D. Kobo

O.D. Kobo is an alternative asset manager with more than two decades of experience in international finance and investment 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 and led a United Kingdom–based private equity firm focused on private market investments.

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For more than a decade, he has 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.