Basil Darwish has departed from Citi Ventures, which acts as Citi’s corporate venturing unit, to take a director of strategic investments role at another financial services firm, Wells Fargo.
Darwish had held a senior vice-president position at Citi Ventures in New York since early 2014 and has co-led investments in, or portfolio management of companies including insight discovery platform Ayasdi, big data analytics technology provider Platfora and cybersecurity company Illusive Networks.
Prior to that, Darwish had spent almost three years leading Citi Ventures’ corporate venturing and incubation activities in Singapore and Southeast Asia as senior vice-president, after moving up from Citi’s investment banking team.
– Photo of Basil Darwish courtesy of Citi Ventures