Shezad has been a global investor and financier for 29 years. He is Executive Chairman of The Interlink Group, a 29-year-old merchant bank with over $75 billion in transactional experience. Direct investment experience across multiple asset classes including financial services, real estate, healthcare, telecom, media, technology and energy where equity requirements range from $100 million to $1 billion per transaction. Counseled political leadership, foreign governments, sovereign wealth funds, and Fortune 100 CEO’s on strategic and investment matters; In 2005, he was elected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, a forum chaired by Queen Rania of Jordan. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Said School of Business at Oxford University.