Hossam Abou Moussa

Partner

Hossam has over 20 years of professional experience investing in growth markets, dedicating over ten years to the financial services sector.

Before joining Apis Partners, Hossam was a Partner at Actis, leading a team of investment experts focused on the Financial Services sector throughout Africa, South, and Southeast Asia.

Throughout his career, Hossam has played a key role in numerous investments across Africa and Asia. Some of these include the Commercial International Bank (Egypt’s largest private sector bank), Fawry (Egypt’s premier digital transformation and e-payment platform), Emerging Markets Payments (the pioneering pan-African payments platform with a presence in Africa and the Middle East), GHL Systems (a top payment service provider and merchant acquirer in the ASEAN region), and MNT-Halan (Egypt’s most extensive and rapidly growing lender for the unbanked and underbanked population).

Hossam is a CFA charter holder, and holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Finance from the American University in Cairo

Profile

Hometown

Cairo, Egypt

Currently located

Cairo, Egypt

Areas of expertise

Growth, Capital Markets, Payments, Lending

Languages

English, Arabic

Q&A

This IS the job I coveted while I was in the first half of my career! I have spent the past 20 years as an operator and aspired to one day be able to contribute my experiences in fast-growing companies and digitally-oriented financial services to a chance to make a big impact on the broader scale that APIS offers.

I get to collaborate with relentlessly committed colleagues and portfolio and target investee executives on how to bring world-class financial solutions to underserved customers in growth markets. I feel like I lucked out!

Family

I spent more than 20 years investing in growth markets, of which more than 10 years focusing on financial services in Africa, South and Southeast Asia. Along the journey, I have been driven by working with experienced investors to support talented management teams in growing their businesses in exciting markets.

Over and above the outstanding scale opportunity, investing in financial services in growth markets benefits all stakeholders – businesses grow through better use of technology and data, customers get access to financial services more efficiently and effectively, and governments benefit from financial inclusion.

Prior experience

Actis

Partner

Investment Principal

EFG-Hermes Private Equity

Associate

CIIC

Education

University of Oxford
Said Business School – MBA

The American University in Cairo
BA, Business and Finance

Related companies

GHL, MNT-Halan, RenewBuy, Peach

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