Serena is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Investment Partners, an alternative investments manager specialising in private markets, managing over US$1.2 billion in AUM.
Serena has 27 years of experience in private markets investing, corporate finance and restructuring, and financial services. She previously held the position of Executive Director of Investments, Head of Global Private Markets (Private Equity, Private Funds, and Real Assets), and Head of Global Financial Institutions Group at Khazanah Nasional Berhad where she served for over 17 years. She successfully spearheaded Khazanah’s new Global Private Funds Program from 2018 where she oversaw and led primary commitments of more than US$1 billion globally across buyout, growth equity, venture capital, and secondaries funds.
She is an alumnus of Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co. Serena holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accounting and Finance from Macquarie University, Australia, an MBA under MIT Sloan Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is part of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship