When brilliance and greed converge

Book review of The Key Man: How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Every private equity (PE) contract specifies who the key men are and elaborates in detail the consequences of their incapacitation, removal or exit in a specific eponymous clause. In the current instance, The Key Man is a riveting account of the intertwining of brilliance and greed. It is the story of Arif Naqvi, the founder of Abraaj Capital, and how he managed to fool with his unvarnished brilliance the best and the brightest into believing in his “mission” that doing good and being profitable via private capital are not necessarily mutually exclusive. I encountered him at the World Government Summit