Private Development Finance
A new public-private initiative to accelerate national development and support democracy in economically fragile nations
Private Development Finance
A new public-private initiative to accelerate national development and support democracy in economically fragile nations
We help companies finance transformational capital asset development initiatives.
We help companies finance transformational capital asset development initiatives.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
​Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
​New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. ​ The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
​Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
​New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. ​ The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
​Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
​New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. ​ The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
The challenges corporations, entrepreneurs and governments face in this new age are unprecedented and daunting. With technology and environment-led disruption progressing at pace, legacy investment decisions are increasingly being relegated to the dustbin of sunk costs. Even the most established corporations and nations, as well as today’s most promising entrepreneur-led start-ups, are at risk of extinction.
​Absent aggressive, large-scale investment into transformative new initiatives, companies and nations are, by default, checking themselves into the economic and commercial equivalent of a hospice.
​New investment is no guarantee of survival. For as quickly as new transformational initiatives appear, they are at risk of disappearing, displaced by the next “big idea”. ​ The “S-curve” is steepening as never before.
In this new age, every company is a perpetual start-up, every advanced economy at risk of losing its comparative advantages. At the same time, every start-up, every new market entrant has the potential to rapidly emerge as the incumbent. Every developing nation has the potential to become the next “tiger” economy.
This is an age of high risks and high returns. For corporations, entrepreneurs, governments willing and able to perpetually adapt, the opportunities may be boundless.
Global excellence
We are building a team of professionals recognised for their expertise in advising and lending to corporations and governments to help achieve strategic long-term policy goals through aggressive capital investment initiatives.
$85 billion
The nominal value of project investment our team members helped structure and finance.
Leadership
Ashraf was inspired to launch Highforest in 2014 following a two-year stint in San Jose, California and London advising ePlanet, a California-based venture capital firm. Infected by the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship bug, he set out to prove to a somewhat sceptical world, still reeling from the aftershocks of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis that while investment and commercial banks' practices may have in the past contributed to an increase in social inequality, their outsized role in financial wealth creation also positioned them to oversee quite the reverse: an increase social equity.
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Ashraf’s banking career has spanned twenty years, three financial institutions—Citibank, ABN Amro, Citibank again, and Goldman Sachs—and seen him advising and raising tens of billions in investment capital for companies as diverse as a Philippines-based film production company and a start-up enterprise that would rapidly grow to become the largest producer of LNG in the world, and advising government enterprises from Israel, the UAE and South Africa to the United Kingdom. His only regret in life is that having spent years earning engineering degrees, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MIT, he has yet to spend a day working as an engineer. He was born in Pakistan, grew up in the United States, and resides in Great Britain.
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