Lessons learnt and insights from scaling to IPO - tech, business, investing, and finance globally, and across Asia

Jan 25, 2020

Visualize the journey from startup to IPO in a pixelated art style, depicting various stages of business growth and challenges without any text. Start with a pixelated small office space on the left to symbolize the humble beginnings of a tech company. As the scene transitions to the right, show the office evolving into a bustling, pixelated workspace with diverse employees and innovative technologies, omitting all letters and text. Include elements such as pixelated graphs showing upward trends and investment meetings. Integrate global landmarks and cultural symbols from Asia in a pixelated style to represent international expansion. The rightmost part of the image should display a grand, celebratory scene with pixelated confetti, omitting the banner and text, against the backdrop of a pixelated city skyline illuminated at night, symbolizing the financial success of an IPO.

Welcome to UC Intelligence! UC combines my love for revenue generation, global technology, business, and finance together with perspectives from Asia as a whole. My main motivation is to bring my thoughts and viewpoints, harnessed from a career in global investment banking, asset management, building and running an enterprise software company and scaling, growing and exiting (via an IPO), a large pan Asian consumer fintech company across Asia.

At a time of rapid global change, rapidly shifting expectations and technological advances, being able to connect the dots is more important than ever.

Open for consulting on:

Enterprise sales / go-to-market
All things digital
Strategic management, operations, general corporate strategy
Financing / fundraising / investor relations and capital markets

DM me on Substack or connect on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nawazimam/

More about me:

Group Head of Corporate Development at MoneyHero Group (Nasdaq: MNY): Led teams across Strategy, Investor Relations, Capital Markets, and Strategic Finance with significant achievements in commercial strategy and operations, and firm-wide operating model redesign. Took from Series B to IPO at $80m annualised revenue for FY2023.
Interim CFO for CareListings.com: handling deal origination and structuring for private equity fundraising.
Founder & CEO at Issufy: Directed the company in providing a cloud-based software platform for capital markets, involving firm and technology strategy, major client acquisition, and management of offices in London and Asia.
Head of Emerging Markets Equity Trading Strategy at Citi: Spearheaded investment ideas and portfolio strategies, integrating thought leadership across various asset classes for internal and external clients.
Ultra High Net Worth Banker at J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Advised ultra-high net worth families and family offices on portfolio management and investment strategies, working closely with J.P. Morgan Investment Bank and Asset Management.
Emerging Market Principal Strategies at Citi: Managed a long/short equity portfolio, integrating analysis and idea generation across different asset classes and liaising with senior corporate executives and key global clients.
Emerging Markets Equity Sales: Advised institutional investors on equity strategies and transactions in emerging markets, leading to a significant revenue base and participation in major IPOs and privatizations

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