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= Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny =

Dr. Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny (born 1964) is a British-Iranian private equity investor and venture capitalist. He specializes in business building, innovation and growth. He is an advisor to McKinsey & Company, a Board Trustee of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC , a member of the UK Productivity Leadership Group and a Board Trustee of its U.K. government sponsored foundation, Be the Business.

He is the chairman of Trinity Sky LLP, a family investment office, and the founder and chairman of Open X Innovations LLC , a London and San Francisco-based investment, advisory and asset management firm with a focus on artificial intelligence enabled enterprise technologies. Prior to that he was CEO and Managing General Partner of Northgate Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm whose assets under management (AUM) increased twenty-fold during his tenure from 2004-2018.

Public Service and Philanthropy
In 2000, Dr. Khajeh-Hosseiny co-founded the charity UnLTD to fund social entrepreneurship in economically depressed parts of the U.K.. He developed and guided UnLTD’s investment proposal to the Millenium Commission of the UK Treasury, establishing a £100million endowment. He continues to serve on UnLTD’s investment committee, winning first prize among U.K. charities and foundations for its investment program.

In June of 2018, Dr. Khajeh-Hosseiny was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution.

In June of 2018 he was invited to be a trustee on the board of the U.K. Productivity Leadership Group (aka “Be the Business”) with his term to commence in September, 2018. He will serve as the lead of the GBX program with a goal of guiding the accelerated transformation of the UK to global best standards.

Personal life
Dr. Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny is married to Afsaneh Yasmin Honarmand. They reside in London and San Francisco and have no children.