Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
Empowering 2 Billion Muslims Through Ethical Finance As the CEO of Hijra, Indonesia’s leading Islamic challenger bank, I’m on a mission to build user-centric, Sharia-compliant financial technology that serves the 2 billion Muslims globally—starting from Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation with over 230 million Muslims. Hijra stands at the intersection of Islamic finance and socially responsible innovation. We believe Sharia finance—rooted in ethics, transparency, fairness, and strong governance—is not just for Muslims, but for anyone who values principled finance. Our aim is to redefine how people engage with money: with purpose, trust, and impact. Our group’s vision is to build a fair and inclusive financial system through technology—empowering individuals and businesses often left out of the conventional banking landscape, while upholding values that promote long-term societal benefit. Prior to building Hijra, I spent a decade in investment banking as Vice President at Société Générale and Citi, advising clients in the energy, mining, infrastructure, telecommunications, and consumer sectors. I hold an Executive MBA from INSEAD, where the seeds of my entrepreneurial journey were planted—leading to the founding of ALAMI, and eventually, Hijra.
(formerly known as ALAMI) We are rejuvenating the Islamic finance industry with state-of-the-art technology, hyper consumer focus, and full commitment to uphold the sharia principles and values.
Growing a team of young professionals at ALAMI to revolutionize the sharia financial industry by utilizing technology to bring forward new and simple way to transact in a sharia way. At ALAMI, we provide sharia-compliance financing to SMEs in order to support their growth, so that there will be a positive trickle-down effect to the economy as a whole, in a fair and sustainable way.
Representative for Indonesia. Generated and executed deals mainly on energy, renewables and infrastructure sectors. Supported the business strategy formulation for Indonesia, together with product teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. Actively involved in Government global medium term notes program to increase the bank's presence in Indonesia.
Responsible to cover top tier local corporate and quasi-sovereign clients under Corporate Investment Banking division. Heavily involved in coal, airline, plantation and media industries. Executed key transactions in Indonesia, such as USD 4 billion global bond of Government of Indonesia, USD 526 million IPO of Garuda Indonesia, and USD 1 billion syndicated loan of Adaro Energy, among others. Actively involved in following banking products: M&A, acquisition financing, rights issue, high yield bond and treasury-related services, which involved corporate valuation and production of information memorandum or prospectus. Led the strategy formulation for the division, as well as in the monitoring activity. Seconded to Leverage Finance divisions in Hong Kong in 2011 covering Asia Pacific region and participated for Citi Credit College Program in NY, in October 2013.