Runa Alam — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder and CEO of Development Partners International (DPI), managing over $3 billion in AUM across private equity and venture capital funds.
Pioneered the African private equity space, starting in the late 1990s.
Helped found AVCA and served as its Chair.
Serves on the Board of CARE and Princeton's Mpala Institute in Kenya.
Graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
Recipient of Private Equity Africa's Special Individual Recognition and SuperReturn's 2024 Outstanding Contribution to Private Capital award.

Biography

Runa Alam is the Co-Founder and CEO of Development Partners International (DPI), a firm with over $3 billion in assets under management, overseeing three private equity funds and a venture capital fund. She is recognized as a pioneer in the African private equity space, having begun investing in the region in the late 1990s.