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South Asian Founder Stories – Speaker Panel & Live Podcast
February 6 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Business Over Chai‘s next live speaker event and networking event will be at PwC’s prestigious More London offices on Tuesday, 6th February at 6-9pm. Join this event and be inspired by founders and entrepreneurs across the South Asian Community.
Speaker panel
Shahzad Younas – Founder of Muzz (formerly Muzzmatch)
Shahzad is the Founder & CEO of the Muslim marriage app, Muzz. Muzz has 8 million members, 500,000 successes, $9M raised, backed by Y Combinator.
Shahzad left the world of Investment Banking to pursue a career as an entrepreneur. He previously was a Vice President with 9 years experience at a Tier one investment Bank within the Portfolio Trading desk – primarily responsible for managing the Program Trading Risk Book as well as trading $3bn Index Rebalance events.
Farzana Baduel – Cuzon PR & Resident PR Expert @ University of Oxford
Farzana is the CEO and co-founder of Curzon PR. Established in 2009, Curzon provides strategic communications advisory across corporates, culture and charities. Whilst headquartered in London, the firm has a global reach.
Farzana is the Resident Public Relations expert for the University of Oxford’s entrepreneurship centre at Said Business School.
She is a Chartered PR practitioner and has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship with the CIPR and is a Fellow of the CIM. Farzana has won multiple awards across PR, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship.
She is a trustee and serves on the board of the British Asian Trust, founded by King Charles III to tackle poverty in South Asia. Farzana donates her time and expertise to several not-for-profit organisations and audiences on a voluntary basis.
She believes in the power of storytelling for good and as a communication bridge to connect worlds.
Nelson Sivalingam – Founder of HowNow & Author of ‘Learning at Speed’
From award-winning high growth technology businesses to successful Sri Lankan street food restaurant groups, Nelson has spent more than a decade building businesses from the ground up and scaling them. As for filmmaking, he produced and directed ads, music videos, documentaries (for WHO, Royal Society of Science) and later a feature film that travelled the world being screened at festivals.
Nelson is currently the CEO and Co-Founder at HowNow, one of the fastest-growing technology companies transforming the way organisations approach learning across the world.
Their clients include tech unicorns GymShark and Trainline as well as global enterprises such as Mercer, Sanofi and Investec to name a few. HowNow was mentioned by Forbes and TechCrunch as one of the edtech companies to watch out for, backed by industry influencers like Mark Pearson (founder of MyVoucherCodes.com), Andy Murray (Tennis Champion), Michael Whitfield and Chris Bruce (founder of Thomson Online Benefits), Pearson (the largest learning company in the world) and Merica Fund.
Reserve your ticket now as they are very limited!