I am designing and implementing a new social franchise business strategy for the Institute for Sustainable Communities sustainable manufacturing program, networking four non-profit training centers – JVs with four renowned universities – in China, Bangladesh and India. [More]

I set up and operated the $7,500,000 Business Support Fund for the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Pakistan. I set up the company from zero, recruited its staff and opened four offices across the country. I was invited to join the Board after a year and the project exceeded outreach targets, creating more than 3000 jobs. [More]

I founded AniCap Venture Partners, a private consultancy in South Africa, specializing in new approaches to developing the investment readiness of marginalized entrepreneurs and increasing access to private equity markets. The company provided consulting services in Southern Africa in the evaluation, design, and management of local and national economic development programs. [More]

I oversaw Enterprise Qatar’s design of two new business incubators to cultivate an entrepreneurial eco-system for Qatari and Arab Entrepreneurs working in technology and Arab fashions, with the aim to help make Qatar the startup destination of choice in the Middle East.

I was a judge for the Lingnan MBA business plan competition in China.

I was a judge for the Charlotte Venture Challenge business plan competition in North Carolina.

I was a judge for the Lahore University of Management Sciences Future Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition in Pakistan.

I won $250,000 proof-of-concept/seed funding in both South Africa and Pakistan to evaluate feasibility of a national vendor incubation program for suppliers called the Financial and Business Support Services Network (in Pakistan) and Blink (in South Africa). I oversaw a team of consultants from Europe and Pakistan who conducted the study, alongside delegates from the European Union. In South Africa, my initiative was a semi-finalist in the National Business Initiative and McKinsey & Company’s 2003 business plan contest. [More]

I designed Red Dawn Holdings, a new publically listed company, to buy incubator properties, to capture high growth returns among the most dynamic sectors and markets in China. If implemented, it would represent a diversified investment in a portfolio of high-growth companies. Red Dawn Holdings’s IPO price would capitalize the costs to build the capacity in each incubator and provide better venture development support services. [More]