Karim founded MAJLIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT out of a conviction: lasting prosperity is crafted with intention, not chance—shaped at the intersection of patient capital, fierce curiosity, and hard-won trust.
Karim, who grew up in an Indian multi-generational household in Tanzania, learned early that real understanding comes not from speaking, but from noticing when conversations drift past each other—in markets, cultures, generations. For him, the sharpest advantage lies with those willing to bridge quiet distances: to attend not only to words spoken, but to what goes unsaid, unseen, unresolved.
Karim is also Senior Advisor to Teneo, a global CEO advisory firm that integrates the disciplines of communications, strategy, talent development, and intelligence, offering independent counsel to significant institutional clients.
By working closely with founders to shape strategies and capital structures, Karim keeps risk and opportunity aligned across cycles and regions. The goal is to find situations where he can see something others don’t—because real investment returns come from being right when others are not.
Educated at Amherst, Johns Hopkins, and Yale, Karim brings curiosity honed by rigor. From Lehman Brothers’ emerging markets practice to leading SHUAA’s global multi-asset class principal investment program, and serving on The Nature Conservancy’s Africa Council, Karim has seen that prosperity and sustainability are not divergent—they’re twin rivers feeding a shared future.
