An expert-led bridge between Chinese robotics and global operators.

Kamran is a business strategist and former investment executive with an engineering background, bringing over 20 years of experience in corporate strategy and early-stage financial advisory. His experience encompasses projects and capital investments across the Energy, Commodities, early-stage Technology, Automotive and Infrastructure sectors. Most recently, Kamran has advised several family offices on private markets investments, M&A transactions as well as internal/captive ventures. Prior to this, Kamran held the role of COO for Expand Energy Corp based in Dubai and Abuja; an Oil & Gas infrastructure company focused on large midstream and downstream opportunities in Nigeria. Prior to this role, Kamran held the role of Managing Director for Investments at Millennium Investment Holdings Limited in Dubai, an international corporate holding company where he oversaw operations and restructuring of portfolio companies across the energy, telecommunications and automotive sectors as well as investment appraisals for new projects.

From 2008 to 2015 Kamran worked on various financial advisory and capital raising mandates for Energy, Industrial and Commodities sector projects as an independent consultant. Prior to 2008 Kamran worked at Goldman Sachs in London within the European Equities division and the Prime Brokerage Trade Management Group. Kamran started his career at UBS Investment Bank’s award-winning Equity Research division in London (Infrastructure and Transport Research Team – number one ranked at the time) where he carried out research on the impact of China’s accession to the WTO on global manufacturing relocation.

Kamran holds a joint BEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering with Business Finance from University College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has won numerous engineering competitions including the UK National Aerospace Challenge where he led a team to design and develop an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and achieved first place over 70 other teams. Kamran is an “AWS Certified AI Practitioner” and holds a certificate in Blockchain Technologies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management as well as Level III certificates in Derivatives, Capital Markets and Financial Regulations from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.