Investing in SME, Asiavesta Strategic Investment Is Ready To Become An Investment Holding. The president and founder of Asiavesta Strategic Investment, Ahmad Sadat, is arguably a reliable entrepreneur and investor.
Born in 1972 in Malang, the father of 4 children, graduated from Universitas Brawijaya (Unibraw) in 1995 and continued his dual degree postgraduate studies at the School of Business and Management (SBM) – ITB and Aalto University Finland with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree graduated in 2015.
“Asiavesta Strategic Investment is an investment holding that invests in established small/medium-sized companies, has a strong and unique business, has great growth and impact potential, and wants to transform into a corporation in an inorganic way,” said Ahmad Sadat, in his press statement, Tuesday (5/7/2022).
He started his career as an account manager at Franklin Covey Indonesia (Dunamis Consulting) in 1995. During his 2-year career, Sadat has performed very well with satisfactory achievement of targets.
However, he finally chose to leave his professional career after being asked by his parents to return to his hometown, and was asked to continue the family business, namely cowhide collectors.
At the same time, the cowhide collection business at that time was experiencing shocks because faced with the monetary crisis of 1998, many cowhide collector businesses went out of business.
“In the midst of these crisis conditions, we must not give up on the situation. We must be able to see business opportunities in the midst of a crisis, namely by buying leather from other merchants and then selling it export to markets in Europe. The business brings a lot of profits, and it develops the family company to be bigger,” he explained.
Not stopping there, in 2000, Ahmad Sadat built a larger company. A company engaged in fattening cattle is called PT Agrisatwa Jaya Kencana. Along the way, the company can develop quickly to have a capacity of up to 40,000 cows with a production capacity of 120,000 cows per year.
In 2008, Ahmad Sadat established PT Asia Intravesta. At that time the company was founded as the legal entity of Ahmad Sadat who invested without operating the business directly.
In 2012 the company started recruiting teams for operations and investment management, the Asiavesta brand was created which is an acronym for the name PT Asia Intrainvesta. In the period until 2018, Asiavesta invested in several companies, stock exchanges, startups, and various investments in the property sector.
In 2019, Asiavesta invested in Idea Indonesia. Within 2 years Asiavesta succeeded in transforming Idea Indonesia into a public company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) with the stock code IDEA.
Along with the investment and restructuring process at Idea Indonesia, Asiavesta began to redefine itself into Asiavesta Strategic Investment with the vision of becoming an investor that is highly relied on by investees and also highly trusted by other investors.
Asiavesta has a mission as an investment holding that invests in established small/medium-sized companies, has a strong and unique business, has great growth and impact potential, and wants to transform into a corporation in an inorganic way.
Asiavesta will be a strategic partner that helps restructure investee companies holistically so that they are ready to become large/large corporations and/or go public in less than 3 years.
“I have invested in stock exchanges, startups, and also helped businesses that have problems but the results are not satisfactory. Until finally we succeeded in IPO right IDEA, where here in addition to financially, we also helped restructure the company and maximize the strength of the Asiavesta team, so that this success also became an inner satisfaction for the team and gave birth to a new Asiavesta Strategic Investment,” he concluded.