Tamer El-Raghy is the founding managing director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF); a $58 million impact Agri VC fund and the world's first equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of African smallholder farmers utilizing blended finance. Tamer has more than 20 years of private equity, venture capital, M&A, entrepreneurial, and innovation experience in Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Europe. He has 9 patents, an MBA from NYU, a PhD in Materials Engineering from Drexel University and a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Cairo University.