Mahmoud Adi

Mahmoud is a Founding Partner at Shorooq Partners, the leading early stage venture capital firm across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. Mahmoud has built his career as an investment professional, entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. Under his leadership, Shorooq Partners backed category leaders across the region such as: Pure Harvest, TruKKer, Capiter, Retailo, Sarwa, NymCard, Lean Technologies, Airlift and Breadfast.

Mahmoud is also a Co-Founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, an Agri-tech scaleup focused on local production of high quality fresh produce year round in the challenging climates of the Arabian Gulf region. In his capacity as CEO, he led the establishment of Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s grand initiative to build a thriving tech ecosystem. Hub71 quickly became home to hundreds of startups, VCs and innovative corporations. Prior to that, Mahmoud worked at Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund of the Abu Dhabi government. Over the span of 10 years, he assumed many roles within the Technology, Manufacturing and Mining Platform at Mubadala such as: working on the turnaround of GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS), restructuring strategic supply agreement with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), the M&A of Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL), the establishment of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and the financing of Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) I and II.

Mahmoud grew up in Abu Dhabi and has studied and worked in UAE and US. Mahmoud holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.S in Mechanical Engineering with Honor and Distinction from the Petroleum Institute (known as Khalifa University today).