Asif Giga has left Experian Ventures, the strategic investment arm of credit information bureau Experian, to become an investment director at communication technology manufacturer Ericsson’s corporate venturing unit, Ericsson Ventures.
Giga had been with Experian for approximately one year, assisting with its initial corporate venturing operations in financial technology-related areas such as security, data and analytics.
From 2015 until 2017, Giga had worked as a venture investor at Singtel Innov8, the venture capital fund owned by telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications. He supported or led diligence on six investments during his time there.
Giga’s venture capital career began in 2013 with an internship at VC firm Data Collective. He followed that by spending four months the following year at payment services firm Visa as an innovation and strategic partnerships intern.
Giga received his MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania’s business campus, where he graduated in the top 10% of the class. He founded US-based food vendor portal developer TastyTruck in 2014 with funding from Wharton’s Innovation Fund.
– Photo of Asif Giga courtesy of LinkedIn.