Prior to launching Umati Capital, Ivan worked with Citigroup for 8 years across a wide variety of countries including Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. He worked across treasury, operations, credit risk management, investment banking and financial institutions banking.

He has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst Level 1 certification and is also qualified to U.K. Financial Services Authority Threshold Competence Level 2. He has a BA Economics cum laude and BA International Relations cum laude from Tufts University (US).