Asad Jamal

Asad Jamal is the Founder & Managing Partner of ePlanet Capital (formerly known as ePlanet Ventures). Mr. Jamal founded ePlanet Ventures in 1999 with a first-mover focus on global venture capital opportunities. Mr. Jamal articulated, developed, and executed ePlanet’s global, innovation-driven investment philosophy, while building ePlanet’s office and business presence throughout the world’s major innovation centers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Mr. Jamal is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investment portfolio, developing exit strategies, and assisting entrepreneurs with growing their businesses. He has been ranked amongst the ‘Top 20’ venture capitalists worldwide by FORBES for three consecutive years (2007, 2008, 2009), and has been given the accolade ‘Pioneer of Global Venture Capital’ by FORBES (2007). Red Herring Magazine featured him as the ‘Hottest VC in the World’. Since 1999, Mr. Jamal has led and sponsored the ePlanet Venture’s investments in multiple sectors covering a wide range of industries such as Advertising & Media, Communication & Wireless, Computing Software, Consumer Internet, Clean Energy, Enterprise Software, Financial, and Life Sciences. A number of these companies have been listed via NASDAQ IPO’s such as Chinese companies Baidu (BIDU), Kong Zhong (KONG), Focus Media (FMCN). Others have been acquired such as Skype (EBAY), Cyanea (IBM), Safeview, End2End, and First Hop. The ‘Top 3’ companies backed by Mr.Jamal achieved an aggregate market valuation of $50 Billion. Mr. Jamal has served on the boards of directors of numerous technology companies including Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), FRIENDi Mobile, Intrapace, IXI Mobile, and the Visto Corporation. He has over 25 years professional experience in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He previously worked in a senior executive capacity with Peregrine Investment Holdings, a Hong Kong merchant bank. He was also the Head of Principal Investing at the Interest-rate Derivatives Trading Unit of the Chase Manhattan Bank in London. Mr. Jamal graduated with a B.Sc. (Honors) from the London School of Economics, and is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Mr. Jamal is a charter member of the entrepreneurship organizations TIE Silicon Valley and OPEN Silicon Valley, a Trustee of the Singularity University, and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. In 2009 Mr. Jamal set up Good Planet, the social venture investment arm of ePlanet Capital. Good Planet’s vision is to address major social issues by identifying and empowering exceptional agents of change.