Zimmermann Jens

Jens Zimmermann is Managing Partner at Halo Investment, a principal investment and corporate finance firm headquartered in Dubai. Halo invests globally in education and other sectors. Before Halo, Jens was Partner & Managing Director at New Silk Route Growth Capital (NSR), a USD 1.3bn fund with investments across the Middle East and Asia. He has over two decades of Private Equity experience and a track record of building successful businesses internationally.

After working for Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s acquisition services team in the early 90’s, he joined a pioneer buyout group in Germany in 1995, before co-founding HGU Hamburg Private Equity AG in 1998. Since 2004, Jens has been working in Private Equity in South Asia and the Middle East. He has led over 40 Private Equity investments, served on over 20 boards and founded several companies in the US, Europe and Asia. He is passionate about education and has invested in and served on the boards of several globally leading education groups, especially in the K-12 and the tertiary sector. Jens has a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School.