Khaled Ben Jilani is a Senior Partner and a member of the ExCom of AfricInvest. He oversees the Innovation team and the financial sector team. Since joining AfricInvest in 2001, Khaled has been involved in the structuring, fundraising and management of 3 PE and VC investment funds and has overseen >30 investments across Africa in innovative companies and in financial institutions. Khaled is also a startup ecosystem activist that has advocated for simpler regulations and laws for startups and has helped governments draft startup and VC friendly laws and regulations. He is also an angel investor. Before joining AfricInvest, Khaled was successively an analyst at Barclays Bank working on European payment systems, a developer in a Tunisian venture where he designed RTGS and Net payment systems now running in 18 African countries, and tech strategy consultant at Proxicom, a technology consulting firm in the US.