| DameZarine KharasDBE | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 1951 (age 73) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Co-founder, Justgiving |
Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is a British businesswoman, and the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, an online giving platform.
Biography
Kharas was born in June 1951, in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.
She came to the UK to study law at Cambridge and remained. She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law. She then joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him. Later she went back to her law firm roots, working with Simmons & Simmons. After which she and Huby started JustGiving.
Honours
In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
References
- "JUSTGIVING FOUNDATION". Companies House. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- Blackhurst, Chris (16 March 2011). "JustGiving's co-founder has good cause to make a profit". ES. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- Profile, standard.co.uk; accessed 13 June 2015.
- Treanor, Jill (12 June 2015). "High-profile figures in business and finance named in the honours list". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Parsi people
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Businesspeople from Karachi
- British businesspeople
- British people of Parsi descent
- Pakistani Zoroastrians
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- British businesspeople of Pakistani descent
- British Zoroastrians
- Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom