The Professional Guidance Department is delighted to welcome Darawati Hussain (parent), who will be presenting a virtual talk which is open to our state school and community partners, as well as the whole St Swithun's community.  

SEED Investment in Start-up Businesses

Darawati Hussain, Biography:

Darawati is an Independent Board Member and Chairman of the Investment Committee of a South-east Asian government backed venture capital fund of funds with more than USD 650 million assets under management. Over the past 20 years the FoF has seeded 14 independent local VC firms and 5 regional/global VC firms.

She has over 30 years of experience in corporate finance, asset management and private equity venture capital.  The last 2 decades have been spent mainly setting up and developing a private equity and venture capital practise that funded companies from start-up phone through growth and even buy-out opportunities across the ASEAN region and diversified industry sectors.

Currently she is more of an angel investor whilst still an Independent Director of several public listed and private-limited companies involved in a diverse range of businesses namely banking, IT, property, strategic crisis management communication and HSE consultancy.  She is also an independent board member of the Audit Oversight Board which falls under the purview of the Securities Commission of Malaysia.

She holds a bachelors’ degree in Economics and Accountancy from Durham University, UK and also Master in Business Administration from London Business School, UK.  She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).