Omar Ali
Managing Partner

Omar has over 20 years of international experience in private equity, venture capital and in corporate management. He has built deep domain expertise in logistics, business services and software & services. Some of the companies Omar has invested in and worked alongside founders and board members in include Wave Shipping (sold to SevenSeas Group), Inchcape Shipping Services, SpiceJet (publicly listed), Stampfeet, ExpressPigeon (sold to IMI Mobile) and essDOCS. Following the acquisition of Wave Shipping, he spearheaded all corporate development activities for SevenSeas Group.

In 2017, he launched Stelvio Transport, a last mile logistics platform headquartered in San Diego, California. Today, Stelvio Transport has grown into a leading last mile logistics operator in Southern California, delivering over millions of packages a year for its customers. ICP is a shareholder in the company, and Omar serves as Stelvio Transport’s CEO. In addition to his role at Stelvio Transport, Omar is the Fund CFO for Astia, which invests in the success of women high growth entrepreneurs, their teams and their ventures.

Omar is fluent in Italian. He received his MBA from SDA Bocconi and his B.S. in Finance from George Mason University.

Arlette Vargas-Ali
Partner

With over 20 years of experience in investment banking, structured finance, and building strategic partnerships across the globe, Arlette is primarily responsible for the firm’s investment activities in business services focusing on the building products & materials sector. She is currently the President of Baja Pacific Aggregates.

Arlette spent the majority of her career working in structured finance and fixed income in New York, London and Dubai for Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Jefferies and Cantor Fitzgerald. Prior to ICP, Arlette served as Director of Strategic Partnerships in Silicon Valley for a leading humanitarian non-profit organization focused on anti-slavery and human rights.

Arlette is fluent in Spanish - her native tongue. She received a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University, where she achieved a triple major in Finance, Marketing and International Business and attained an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business, where she was a full-merit scholarship recipient. Most recently, Arlette completed a Certificate in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the London School of Economics.

Lars Rosenkrands
Partner

Lars has over 30 years of experience as a senior executive within leading global companies and start-ups in the shipping & marine services industry in Asia, Middle East and Europe including Inchcape Shipping Services, Wilhelmsen Ship Services, ShipServ, and Sinwa. Lars was a co-founder of Wave Shipping, disruptive port agency company, which was sold to SevenSeas Group within its first year of operations, realizing a significant return on investment for seed investors. He is also has shipping-tech leadership experience from heading the go-to-market of MOSCORD – a start-up which is already the leading e-Marketplace for ship supply, and as CEO of SparesCNX - a new venture which is optimizing the ship supply chain process by providing an automated inventory management and tracking solution of ship spares. Lars is a graduate from the A.P. Moller – Maersk Shipping Academy in Copenhagen and completed INSEAD’s Advanced Management Program in 2012.