Alok Sama, Author and Former President of Softbank Group

Today, my guest is Alok Sama, Former President & CFO of SoftBank Group International (“SBGI”) and Chief Strategy Officer for SoftBank Group (“SBG”) where he led the $59B merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, the $34B acquisition of ARM Holdings Plc, the $10B disposition of SoftBank’s stake in Alibaba Group Holding, the $8.6B sale of Supercell Oy to Tencent Holdings, and the restructuring of SoftBank’s holding in Yahoo! Japan.

Alok currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus LLC, Chairs the Advisory Board for Valhalla Ventures and is a director of Baer Capital Partners. He is also the author of the bestselling literary memoir The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble.

Alok has over 30 years of investment banking, capital market and investment experience in New York, London and Hong Kong. Alok was formerly a senior Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. While at Morgan Stanley, he led the firms communications practice in Europe and the TMT practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Alok was formerly a Board member at Arm Holdings, Fortress Investment Group, SoFi, Brightstar Corp, Softbank Energy, SoftBank Group Capital, and Airtel Africa. He holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton Business School and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.