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With over 30 years of practical experience in Finance and Technology, Farshad can advise and support and source investment for internet start-ups especially in areas of Financial Services, eCommerce, Portals, Search solutions, Mobile Payment services and Customers Management system.

He is a long-term entrepreneur specialising in Finance/Technological solutions. Now a VP (Technological strategy)-Non Exec at one of the largest Banks in the Middle East, Farshad has invested in and helped the bank and its many technological sub-companies to grow the Bank from a $10 million company to today, a multi-billion $ Company with over 4 Million customers, and one the most used Online Payment Gateways in the world.

For 25 years, Farshad has been one of the critical consultants to Reuters Financial global services providing financial services to global Banks (such as Deutsche Bank and Barclays), Stockbrokers and at Microsoft HQ in Redmond USA, on how they can best utilise financial, technological solutions.

Over the years he has worked with a large set of world-class VC’s who could be called upon to invest in new start-ups. Farshad has advised and personally invested in numerous technological start-up ventures and investment in Google, Amazon, Alibaba, ARM(UK Silicon Chip), BankOfInternet(San Fran-US Nasdaq), LinkedIn, FSLR, are/were few of his investments.