
Khurram is an Investment Banker, Development Economist, and Technology Entrepreneur by profession, advising Governments, Corporates, FIs, Startups, and Local & Global Investors, on turnaround, growth, and transformations.
With about two decades of highly progressive career, Khurram possesses a proven Board-level governance, leadership, management, and team-building experience, coupled with the aptitude to direct and train strong teams in professional corporate, academic and voluntary work environments with strong delivery and results.
He is an avid Development Economics, Financial and Technology professional, and an accomplished individual who has served in various leadership roles at bulge-bracket investment groups in both Private and Public sectors across key financial disciplines mentioned above. He’s been serving on board/committees at various corporate/private and public sector platforms.
Khurram’s work experience spans over two decades across key economic, financial and technology investment disciplines, including Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, PE & Venture Capital, Startup Advisory, Analytics & Insights, Data-driven Investment Strategy, Public & Private Markets, Asset and Portfolio Management incl. Discretionary/Non-Discretionary Portfolio Advisory; and public sector incl. Economic Policy & Research, Tech VC Fund, Restructuring/Privatisation, and Strategic Investment and Economic Policy and Reforms.
Mr. Schehzad is also a dynamic Entrepreneur, running a boutique Investment Banking, Portfolio Advisory and Technology Consultancy platform that has been named as one of the topmost innovative and fast-growing financial technology companies by Startup Pill, UK, as well as amongst top-50 by BestStartup.asia. This venture under his supervision grew and expanded into the region within a short span of 5 years. Mr. Schehzad also Co-founded one of the world’s premier AI companies developing AI-driven Financial & Macro Insights and Investment analytics solutions.
The roles he served have helped him turn into a Strategist and refined his persuasive Communication skills, policy Structuring and resourceful Execution capabilities while advising governments, corporates, institutional and high net-worth investors. Mr. Schehzad has comprehensively developed/managed economic, financial and technology teams, who not only mastered various aspects of finance and technology, building bespoke strategies for a diverse client and investor base (both local and global), but also consistently delivered alpha/competitive value to both the public and private sectors.