Kirby is a Director at Blume Equity. He has spent the past decade in private and growth equity investing in the technology space, supporting founders and management teams on their scale-up journey.

Prior to joining Blume, Kirby was a founding member of the Asia Growth Equity team at KKR, and led technology growth investments in the Southeast Asia and Australia / New Zealand region. Kirby started his career at Temasek in the TMT investment team, based in London and Singapore covering technology globally. Kirby holds a MEng in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kirby has lived and worked across Europe and Asia and currently lives with his family in Cambridge, UK.