A multi-stakeholder investment and impact specialist, author, and public speaker with over 25 years of experience. He is the founder of Social, Entrepreneurship & Equity Development (SEED) Ventures which is an investment and impact development organisation in Pakistan. Within 10 years he has taken the group from an idea to a sustainable organisation, with a turnover of $ 40 million for SEED and its portfolio companies. With a strong base in the UK, he has been able to create collaborations and partnerships at a local & global level with public, private, development, media, academia & financial Sectors. He has mobilised these partnerships to raise multimillion dollar funds through cross-sectoral investment architecture with vehicles like corporate impact venturing, blended finance, co-investments and public private partnerships. He has spearheaded impact programmes & collaborations between UK & Pakistan in the space of inclusive education, enterprise, social enterprise for youth, women and Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) segments impacting and engaging over 100,000 people. He has co-authoured social enterprise legislation & is actively working with the government on policy development and legislation that will create an environment conducive for social enterprises in Pakistan. He is also visiting Professor (Social Enterprise, Innovation & policy) at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham UK.