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Atif Waqar
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Venture Capitalist by nature, Atif established his first IT consultancy firm at the age of 19. After witnessing phenominal growth, he headed to the UK for MBA and then gained work experience across multitude of industries including Banking & Finance, Education, Retail, Food, Telco, IT, Healthcare and Real Estate.
With agile nature and robust risk mitigation approach seconded with strong sales, marketing, communication and interpersonal skills, he helps establish and grow businesses for creating positive economic impact to the society through innovation, value addition and growth.
Early stage startups, Disruptive business models that help catalyze growth, Private Equity, Debt financing and Business Development remain his key interests.
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