Omar Chohan

Co-Founder & General Partner

2019 - Current

PIF Capital Management is the Investment Manager for: Pay It Forward (PIF VC) is a top-decile portfolio formed by cross-discipline partners. PIF supports sectors that offer both social impact and industry-leading financial returns. We select investments based on its opportunity to invent new paradigms, deliver them to market with a focus on business fundamentals, strategy and tailwinds >> http://www.pif.vc PIF Labs is an incubator and advisory firm that contributes to the rise of novel financial primitives and structures that have been brought about by DeFi. We are here to support builders who dream as big as we do >> https://piflabs.xyz PIF.Family is a multi-family office advisory firm, focusing on meeting the unique needs of each family we work with, and take a holistic view of their financial situation. We strive to address these issues in a way that is both innovative and integrated so clients can focus on what matters most: their family, accomplishments and giving.

Venture Partner

2022

Partner

2020 - 2021

$1.5B+ AUM firm focused on using product and data science to engineer N-of-1 companies and investments. https://tribecap.co/

CEO, President

2017

ZoomHash is a premiere full service co-location & hosting company, with niche specialization in crypto currency (digital asset) mining. Our facilities are powered entirely by sustainable hydroelectric energy and offer 24/7 technical support and security.

Managing Director

2013

Luxsant, LLC. is a boutique management consulting firm, specializing in global market entry, tax strategy, Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO), Supply Chain and Operations, Technology, Turn Around and Corporate Restructuring. Global Market Entry and Tax Strategy: Assist companies seeking to expand outside of the United States by evaluating political, legal and trade risk and business opportunities. Provide guidance in area of global management, inclusive of host country compliance and opportunities, as well as global tax structure, inclusive of QDI and Subpart F concerns. Supply Chain and Operations: Advise clients on supply chain, operations, and business strategy, to determinate level of strategic alignment and areas for performance improvement, cost reduction and capabilities improvement Technology: Performed needs assessment of client’s business operations and facilitate in the implementation of appropriate solutions. Specialized in the area of ERP, CRM, Collaboration and Unified Communications Finance and Accounting Outsourcing: Work with clients to perform their comprehensive finance and accounting needs, allowing them to focus on business, and ensuring that reporting and compliance is done timely and accurately. Turn Around and Restructuring: Perform strategic assessments to determine areas of opportunity, cost reduction and overall performance improvement as part of a broader strategy. Includes interim C-level appointment, in order to lead teams in creating and executing turnaround strategy, inclusive of financial modelling, to present and gain buy-in of creditors, bankruptcy courts, debtors, etc... Valuation: Work with clients, both foreign and domestic, in performing valuation for purposes of mergers and/or acquisition. Included basic audit of financials, opinion of business operations and potential, and valuation of assets and liabilities

Managing Director

2015 - 2016

SAC Global Fashion Sdn. Bhd. is a comprehensive used clothing sorting and manufacturing company, producing the complete spectrum of goods ranging from cream/new clothes to wiping rags. As 100% of the raw material originates from USA, and is not picked at all prior to export packaging, we pay special attention to quality and offer a comprehensive three-stage quality assurance program in which every single piece of clothing is checked three times prior to shipment by a dedicated QA team. • As Managing Director, I was fortunate enough to drive this expansion, leading the global team effort in deploying a large manufacturing facility—80,000sqft building, 60 employees—in nine months, from inception to completion. • Led the process of designing, managing and implementing full operations, supply chain, communications, outsourcing, ERP and CRM to streamline business practices and allow for global operations integration, monitoring and operational efficiencies with our other global offices and plants. • Able to create vertical demand by establishing non-equity joint ventures with local entities to consume a large percentage of production. • Attained new customers by taking advantage of newly identified and created strategic regional and global trade opportunities.

CFO, President - Global Trade & Operations

1998 - 2016

SAC International Steel is a global steel trading and distribution company, with direct global presence and global strategic relationships. The company serves two critical roles: 1) serve as outsourced sales arm for globally respected steel mills, allowing them comprehensive market entry, as well as integrated and complete sales services. 2) Work with end use customers serving as their outsourced purchasing department, and facilitating transactions via value added services including currency management, risk mitigation, trade structuring, quality assurances, etc... These customers are in industries such as automotive, appliance, building material, infrastructure, packaging, etc...In both areas, we deal in the the complete line of carbon based steel products and manage supplier/buyer side supply chain and trade structuring. • Led the creation of the global trade entity, from zero to over 14 offices worldwide, with a trade portfolio of over USD $160 million in trade transactions. • Leveraged economies of scale to promote new venture, as well as support USA entity by significantly reducing costs of goods. • Established strong supply chain to ensure greater efficiency and service. • Implemented global tax strategy to mitigate against risk, and plan for long term growth. • Responsible for all enterprise wide planning of market penetration strategy, forecasting, financial budgeting, modeling and global growth planning. • Manage and plan capital budgeting to be used in considering all financial and capital acquisition requirements for growth, along with planning respective cash flow requirements. • Monitor company performance via key performance indicators (KPIs), such as inventory turns, sales, cash receipts and key financial ratios. • Leveraged global currencies by taking advantage of financial derivatives, such as forward and spot transactions, as well as triangular arbitrage and hedging, as a means of profit maximization and risk mitigation.

Sales Manager

1996 - 1998

SAC International Steel, USA entity, is a global steel distribution company, work with end use customers in supplying their raw material needs pertaining to carbon based flat rolled products. These customers are in various industries including automotive, appliance, building material, infrastructure, packaging, etc.. • Designed and implemented JIT process and supply chain to meet automotive industry requirements. • Responsible for converting leads to accounts by manage team of inside and outside sales staff across the United States. • Forecast sales and align sales resources to meet goals/objectives

President

2010 - 2014

SAC Enterprise Technology Solutions is a IT service provider, and Microsoft partner, specializing in providing expert services in the area of cloud services, network design and security, ERP, CRM and UC solutions. Core customer base are other Microsoft partners who outsource their service and support needs to us, with a small amount of direct end users looking for IT expertise. For these end users, we also align client business processes, possibly performing needs assessment and process reengineering, with systems and intellectual capital resulting in increased client efficiencies, visibility and cost reduction utilizing solutions and services Major products handled are: Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Office 365 ERP: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Sage MAS 90/100/20 CRM: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Sage SalesLogix UC: Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business