Samira serves as Principal, Head of Value Creation at AC Ventures. She leads a team providing the firm’s portfolio companies with strategic and operational support for growth, corporate governance, business development, government relations, as well as organization and capital advisory.

Samira is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive. She returned to Indonesia in 2014, after spending over 25 years abroad, to realize Southeast Asia’s tech and digital opportunities. She began her career as a tech entrepreneur, building a SaaS for the hospitality industry. She then joined a private equity consulting firm, where she played a strategic role in setting up operations, management, and marketing structures for newly invested businesses.

Since 2016, she has been the CEO of Indonesia’s leading preloved fashion e-commerce startup. A passionate supporter of gender equality, she founded Stellar Women, an organization for female leaders and entrepreneurs.

Samira has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Psychology, and International Studies from Penn State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. She is a busy mom of two daughters and enjoys marathon training in her free time.