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Khan M F Salehin left a comment for Faraz Khan
April 9
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April 8
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April 8
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April 8
Faraz Khan joined Peace Through Commerce's group
The Peace Through Commerce eConference
The World Bank Institute and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility present an online Conference on Business and Peace.
April 3
Faraz Khan joined Business Fights Poverty's group
MDGs at the Mid-Point
The report "MDGs at the Mid-Point: Accelerating Business-Led Growth and Collective Action" brings together the insights of a wide number of practitioners, who in their own way have been pioneers in helping unleash Africa’s entrepreneurial energy.
April 3
Faraz Khan joined McMarvin's group
SME/CSR=SD
Devoted to promoting CSR amongst businesses especially Small and Medium Enterprises (majority businesses in Africa). CSR is equally valid for both large and and it’s a contribution that firms make towards sustainable development (SD)
April 3
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April 3
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April 3
Faraz Khan is attending Overseas Development Institute,Department for International Development & Business Action for Africa's event
April 21, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Putting market access into practice: reaching the bottom billion through corporate supply and distribution chains Tuesday, 21 April, 17.30 to 19.00 followed by reception (Registration from 17.00). Event sponsored by Businesses are expanding th...
April 3
Faraz Khan is now a member of Business Fights Poverty
Welcome Them!
April 3

Profile Information

Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
I am a social entrepreneur
Website:
www.stimulusorg.com & coloursofinspiration.com">http://www.bridgingbritain.com www.stimulusorg.com & coloursofinspiration.com
Industry:
Ethnic trade, third sector consulting and capacity buiding in South Asia & arts
About my work:
Faraz Khan is a social entrepreneur and an international trade consultant working in the capacity of CEO/Director Bridging Britain, Co-founder/Director Stimulus and partner Gizelle communications. He brings with him sixteen years of local, regional and global experience of banking, nfp communication, trade, communications and Social entrepreneurship.
His successful entrepreneurial ventures, locally and globally are a result of Faraz’s innate ability to identify complex socio-economic opportunities and then create simple & sustainable structures and systems to translate the problems into tangible, result orientated & innovative solutions.
This makes Faraz amongst pioneering social entrepreneurs of Pakistan in the field of trade, arts and socio-economic development.
Faraz Khan began his professional career with the Deutsch Bank Pakistan in early 90's. After 10 years in financial services, Faraz left a promising career in banking and co-founded Gizelle Communications Pvt. Ltd; an advertising agency with a specific concentration to CSR marketing.

As a social entrepreneur, he founded and developed Bridging Britain Pvt. Ltd. to encourage, facilitate and support trade across ethnic boundaries (locally and internationally); to bring people from ethnic divides together through events, publications and alliances of cultural, social and economic interest. The proposition is to identify untapped potential in trade and society and to provide structures and services that bridge ethnic and mainstream markets (and people); to create a business case for harnessing economic, social and cultural ethnic fabric for mutual national and international benefit.

Bridging Britain (Pvt) Ltd. is the second in the series of successful social entrepreneurial set-ups, followed by Colours of Inspiration (COI) aimed at generating global accessibility to Asian art and artists, with core emphasis to special artists.

Stimulus (Pvt) Ltd. is a social development consultancy aimed at enhancing social & economic development & sustainability in a global context by virtue of focus in four primary areas:

• Economic development
• Social development
• Sustainable livelihood
• Disaster management

Faraz has holds an MBA from University of Lincolnshire UK and Bachelors from University of Karachi Pakistan.

Faraz has been a guest speaker at various International forums including 'Internal Communication in Financial Services' at Prague and 'Corporate Identity Management' At Rome.

He is a member of:

Chartered Institute of Marketing UK.(CIM)
The Institute of Direct Marketing UK. (IDM)
Institute of Directors UK. (IOD)
Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary organizations (ACEVO)
European Union network for third sector (EUCLID)

Extensive travel, diverse reading habits, passion for cross cultural communication and unique business acumen are a few of the gifts that have driven Faraz throughout his eventful career.

At present, he also is conducting research on his upcoming book on global aid disbursement mechanism and element of corruption.

http://www.bridgingbritain.com
http://www.coloursofinspiration.com
http://www.stimulusorg.com

Faraz is married and has a daughter.
Interested in:
Professional Contacts, Potential Partners, New ventures, Potential Clients

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At 12:32am on April 9, 2009, Khan M F Salehin said…
Hello, its fine. Where are you based? My number: 07503691781.
Best regards.
Salehin
 
 

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