Naz’s most recent role is with Shadow Capital Partners, an alternative fund management business regulated by the FCA specialising in venture capital, real estate related investments and short-term loans. Naz’s previous activities included the setting-up and operation of a technology investment platform as Shadow Foundr which raises equity funding for start-up and early-stage scalable and innovative businesses through its private network of experienced professional investors while arranging co-investing and follow-on funding through close collaborations with UHNW’s, Multi-Family Offices, Venture Capitalists and Private Equity.
Shadow Foundr was one of the UK’s leading technological funding platforms, raising tens of millions of pounds for early-stage, high growth businesses; and operating under the trading name Shadow Capital Partners has been actively raising funds as part of it fund management business in SEIS/EIS funds, venture capital and short-term loans.
Naz’s background was in the financial sector including having worked for major international financial institutions in quantitative trading and the promoting of equities and equity related derivatives in different global financial centres. The operation of which involved the responsibility for developing, optimising and implementation of complex trading systems/platforms to manage risk on very large hedged and global trading positions.
Roles in that time have included: Director of Global Equities and equity derivative trading for Strategic Asset Management in Bermuda; Head of Equity Derivatives Trading for Credit Lyonnais Securities (now Credit Agricole) Derivatives in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London; a Senior Derivatives Trader for Bankers Trust International (now Deutsche Bank), London and New York, as well as positions with Citibank in New York and London.
