Nadia Fonny - Vice President, Gobi Partners

Nadia Fonny

Vice President, Gobi Partners

More about Nadia Fonny

Nadia joined Gobi as the first hire for the Indonesia office back in 2016. With her Biochemistry and Biomolecular Engineering background from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, she joined Citibank as Project Manager to implement FATCA for Citibank’s SME clients in CitiBusiness and led the department’s operational audit, Manager’s Control Assessment, followed by a stint in RuangGuru where she helps with their Business Development projects while cultivating her passion in EduTech.

Nadia is passionate about EduTech and believes in meritocracy in education. She likes looking at companies that are also focuses on social impact, dedicated to solving deeply rooted mass market problems for middle class population.

She enjoys intellectual conversation with strangers about cultural, socioeconomic trends, intentional consumptive behavior, meditating and working out. She’s a netflix-amazonprime-appletv-hbogo binge watcher and read 24 books a year, while learning ukulele in her free time. Nadia is in currently heading the Indonesia operation for Gobi Partners.

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