Mr. Bailey serves as Director of Research of EMQQ. Prior to joining EMQQ, Akeem worked at Rondure Global Advisors, where he helped oversee research and due diligence on emerging market equities. Preceding that he worked for Arisaig Partners, a Singapore-based hedge fund focused exclusively on consumer and internet companies in emerging markets. Akeem began his career living and working in India as a strategy consultant for one of the country’s largest industrial companies: the Mahindra Group. Akeem holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
EMQQ aims to provide exposure to the intersection of three macro trends in emerging markets: the rising middle class, increasingly affordable smartphones, and consumption patterns going online for the first time via smartphones promoting rapid ecommerce growth. With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, billions of people in the developing world are now leapfrogging traditional consumption patterns and starting to consume online for the first time. The result of this rising middle-class consumer wave has transformed economies and created a digital revolution in emerging markets.