Founding Partner & Alternate Chairman
Prior to co-founding Ikhlas, Gita was Indonesia’s Minister of Trade from 2011 to 2014, and Chairman of Indonesia’s Investment Coordinating Board from 2009 to 2011. He is also the Chairman of Ancora Group, an Indonesian group which he founded in 2008 with interests including real estate, technology, education and natural resources. His other previously held positions include President Director of JPMorgan Indonesia and Vice President at Goldman Sachs.
Gita sits on the advisory boards/panels of Axiata Group Berhad (where he was previously an Independent Non-Executive Director), the CHUBB group of insurance companies, Traveloka Group, and Alpha JWC Ventures. He also had a stint as Commissioner of state-owned oil giant, Pertamina.
In education, he sits on the Council of Global Advisers for Yale University School of Management, the Board of Governors for Asia School of Business (MIT Sloan), the Advisory Board (Institute for Societal Leadership) of Singapore Management University, the Dean’s Leadership Council of Nanyang Technology University (RSIS) and the International Advisory Board of Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Gita holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas, an MBA from Baylor University and an MPA from Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government, as a Mason Fellow. He is also a certified public accountant (“CPA”) and a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.