Mongi Buckens
Mr. Mongi Buckens is an Associate Partner at Antler Ibex, the world’s first full-service vertical growth engine for established corporates. He leads Ibex’s corporate innovation and investment work in Southeast Asia, helping some of the region’s largest telecom operators and other industry leaders unlock organic, inorganic, and transformational growth.
At Ibex, Mongi works with corporates to strategically engage with the $3.5 trillion global venture economy—scouting and securing top talent and technologies, forming high-impact startup partnerships, arming business units with scalable solutions at lower risk, executing thematic investments, and building entirely new ventures beyond the core. His work blends internal capability-building with external ecosystem access to ensure innovation strategies translate into measurable, strategic, and scalable business outcomes.
With over 12 years of experience in strategy consulting and business growth across the Asia Pacific, Mongi began his career at Roland Berger and McKinsey before founding and scaling a data-driven AdTech and location intelligence company in Indonesia. He holds dual master’s degrees in Strategy and Business Engineering from ESSEC and Solvay Business School.