Basil Moftah

Basil is a general partner at Global Ventures, a growth focused venture capital firm.
He started his career in the venture capital arm of Reuters PLC.
He managed to complete 16 investments over 4 years in the fund achieving 33% IRR in-spite of the difficult years of 2001/2 for the markets.
He later went on to become President of the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters before it was sold to private equity for $3.55B in 2016.
Since then, he has been based in the region focusing exclusively on startups, the local technology scene and most importantly investments and advisory work.
He has built up a personal portfolio of 10 companies not just in MENA but also in the UK and China.