Yasser is the Co-Head of RedBird X, where he spearheads the implementation of AI across the Firm by using data science to assist investment teams with due diligence and collaborating with the management of portfolio companies to drive and deploy advanced analytics and AI.
Prior to joining RedBird, Yasser led the Private Equity Data Science practice at Blackstone, overseeing a team of 10 data scientists (in-house and deployed at portfolio companies).
Prior to that, he served as a Data Scientist at McKinsey and at a tech startup.
Yasser received an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering focused in Data Science from Columbia University (NY) and an M.E. in Fluid Mechanics from École Polytechnique (Paris).