Shakir Husain
Partner at IVM Capital
Shakir Husain
Partner at IVM Capital
Walnut Creek, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2000 - Current
Creative Chaos is a technology company which specializes in custom application development across industry verticals. Creative Chaos is a fast growth company which is part of the Arabia 500 and services customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across the globe. With over 300 full time employees, Creative Chaos serves as a technology development bank which incubates technology ideas and adds value to customers and partners.
Partner
2011
We invest in the earliest stage of a company’s life. We mentor founders; provide capital; help raise funds; identify partners and integrate companies to create mega-opportunities. We also incubate startups. - We insure business & technology risk. - We help financial institutions, angel funds with business and technology due diligence. We use our experience, resources and intellect to assist entrepreneurs to maximize the wealth creation potential of their enterprise
Co-Founder & Partner
2015 - 2016
Our vision is to be Pakistan’s most customer centric ecommerce company. Our portfolio company Homeshopping.pk is a leading online ecommerce platform in business since 2009 with a significant market share and a loyal and growing customer base. Portfolio Companies: www.homeshopping.pk www.urbandesign.pk www.healthpro.pk
Director
2002 - 2011
International Advisor
2006 - 2010
As an international advisor to ICT my role is to help the company grow in the MENA region by initiating and managing relationships for them. Since ICT's core mission is to cross pollinate deals from the MENA region and North America I've been assisting them in identifying and structuring such engagements.
Franchisee
2005 - 2007
As a franchisee for Telenor, a Norweigien cellular operator, which bought a cellular lisence for Pakistan for 271 million USD, am responsible for distribution/customer care/direct sales to a territory of 2.5 million people in Karachi Pakistan. Telenor is a cellular operator which operates in 15 countries around the globe.
Education
BA
1994 - 1998
High School
1981 - 1991