Mir Muhamma d ALi Khan
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan (MirMak) a household name in Pakistan’s finance industry. He was the only Pakistani who has ever been to Wall Street New York and has experienced the perks and cons of the biggest stock market in the world firsthand. He is not only a Wall Street veteran but also an internationally renowned Investment Banker, an Entrepreneur and a Capital Markets Advisor. At the vigorous age of 29, he became the youngest Chairman and Founder of a full service Investment Bank in America and achieved the title, first ever Muslim to have owned an investment bank on Wall Street.
He has had a successful career as Founder & Chairman: The Financial Group, Inc., Federal Advisor to Government of Pakistan, a Member of New Jersey Governors Council. He introduced Islamic Banking Research into mainstream America by co-sponsoring and advising Harvard University to launch Harvard Islamic Finance and Information Program (HIFIP). He has developed “THE World’s First Islamic Banking Benchmark Index on Wall Street named KMS-SAMI: (Socially Aware Muslim Index) which is now a functional index run by The Dow Jones Indices. He has also been featured in “Who’s Who of Top Executives In The World”.
He was nurtured in a highly educated family of Karachi. A family with no insufficiency of Doctors, Lawyers and Ph.Ds. He is also from one of those few families for whom ancestry can be traced to notable lineages. His lineage is traced back from the dynasty of Asaf Jah dynasty, from the family of the Nizam Of Deccan, Mir Osman Alikhan from his paternal side and Syed Ali Asghar Bilgrami, his maternal grandfather, who was the Governor General of the Province of Aurangabad, India.
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan graduated from an Irish Catholic Missionary High School in Karachi with excellent academic grades. From his early age he was obsessed with books and studies but he always dreamt of having a successful carrier in finance. In his late teens his family immigrated to US where he finished his further studies from Rutgers University in the same course that he always wanted to make big in Economics and Finance, but the magnificent lineage went downhill in the new surroundings. Going through University, he worked all kinds of odd jobs to support himself. During his first job in America he was washing dishes and cleaning tables at Burger King on Easton Avenue in New Jersey. He drove taxis, punched tags in the apparel section of Kmart to support his educational expenses in a foreign country but during these jobs one wish derived him to work hard and that was to enter Wall Street and be in the middle of all the action of the Capital Markets and all the hard work and sheer determination finally lead him to where he always wanted to be and he got hired by an investment bank right on Wall Street as an assistant Vice President and he never looked back from that point onwards.
Few years later he moved to another investment bank as a Senior Executive Vice President, International Investment Banking Division. He started to handle international clients and being a bi-linguist, it worked out to be greatly in his favors. Another milestone in his extraordinary journey was to open up his own Boutique Investment Bank on Wall Street in 1995, which was KMS Investment bank the first Muslim owned investment bank in the history of Wall Street. In all this period he has gathered a few hundred million dollars of assets under Advisory & Management and has done over 40 or so investment banking deals, including IPO’s and secondary financing. Side by side he has also started to take a keen interest in politics and was one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party. He believed that Muslims in any country that they permanently settle into should become active in the Democratic process of that country to have their voice heard and counted.
Amongst many other political achievements, He has also become the Member of the Governor’s Council, for the Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, and also a member of the Republican Presidential Task Force, and the first Pakistani ever to have had these honors in America. He has also served General (R) Parvez Musharraf as a legal advisor. He is single handedly raising his two sons for the past 15 years. He is also writing his autobiography which is expected soon to come out. Film makers from Hollywood and Lollywood have joined hands for making a feature film on his expedition of struggle. This is happening to be the first time that Hollywood is making a movie on a Pakistani person. The movie ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ is the story of first Muslim and Pakistani who owns an Investment Bank at Wall Street, and how he faced many challenges from anti-Muslim elements. Eman Bente Syed will be the producer of ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ who has recently produced movie Jalaibee. Mr Mir Mohammad AliKhan has vowed to donate all the profits produced from this movie to different ventures for youth causes.
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan (MirMak) a household name in Pakistan’s finance industry. He was the only Pakistani who has ever been to Wall Street New York and has experienced the perks and cons of the biggest stock market in the world firsthand. He is not only a Wall Street veteran but also an internationally renowned Investment Banker, an Entrepreneur and a Capital Markets Advisor. At the vigorous age of 29, he became the youngest Chairman and Founder of a full service Investment Bank in America and achieved the title, first ever Muslim to have owned an investment bank on Wall Street. He has had a successful career as Founder & Chairman: The Financial Group, Inc., Federal Advisor to Government of Pakistan, a Member of New Jersey Governors Council. He introduced Islamic Banking Research into mainstream America by co-sponsoring and advising Harvard University to launch Harvard Islamic Finance and Information Program (HIFIP). He has developed “THE World’s First Islamic Banking Benchmark Index on Wall Street named KMS-SAMI: (Socially Aware Muslim Index) which is now a functional index run by The Dow Jones Indices. He has also been featured in “Who’s Who of Top Executives In The World”.
He was nurtured in a highly educated family of Karachi. A family with no insufficiency of Doctors, Lawyers and Ph.Ds. He is also from one of those few families for whom ancestry can be traced to notable lineages. His lineage is traced back from the dynasty of Asaf Jah dynasty, from the family of the Nizam Of Deccan, Mir Osman Alikhan from his paternal side and Syed Ali Asghar Bilgrami, his maternal grandfather, who was the Governor General of the Province of Aurangabad, India. Mir Mohammad Ali Khan graduated from an Irish Catholic Missionary High School in Karachi with excellent academic grades. From his early age he was obsessed with books and studies but he always dreamt of having a successful carrier in finance. In his late teens his family immigrated to US where he finished his further studies from Rutgers University in the same course that he always wanted to make big in Economics and Finance, but the magnificent lineage went downhill in the new surroundings. Going through University, he worked all kinds of odd jobs to support himself.
During his first job in America he was washing dishes and cleaning tables at Burger King on Easton Avenue in New Jersey. He drove taxis, punched tags in the apparel section of Kmart to support his educational expenses in a foreign country but during these jobs one wish derived him to work hard and that was to enter Wall Street and be in the middle of all the action of the Capital Markets and all the hard work and sheer determination finally lead him to where he always wanted to be and he got hired by an investment bank right on Wall Street as an assistant Vice President and he never looked back from that point onwards. Few years later he moved to another investment bank as a Senior Executive Vice President, International Investment Banking Division.
He started to handle international clients and being a bi-linguist, it worked out to be greatly in his favors. Another milestone in his extraordinary journey was to open up his own Boutique Investment Bank on Wall Street in 1995, which was KMS Investment bank the first Muslim owned investment bank in the history of Wall Street. In all this period he has gathered a few hundred million dollars of assets under Advisory & Management and has done over 40 or so investment banking deals, including IPO’s and secondary financing. Side by side he has also started to take a keen interest in politics and was one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party. He believed that Muslims in any country that they permanently settle into should become active in the Democratic process of that country to have their voice heard and counted.
Amongst many other political achievements, He has also become the Member of the Governor’s Council, for the Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, and also a member of the Republican Presidential Task Force, and the first Pakistani ever to have had these honors in America. He has also served General (R) Parvez Musharraf as a legal advisor. He is single handedly raising his two sons for the past 15 years. He is also writing his autobiography which is expected soon to come out. Film makers from Hollywood and Lollywood have joined hands for making a feature film on his expedition of struggle. This is happening to be the first time that Hollywood is making a movie on a Pakistani person. The movie ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ is the story of first Muslim and Pakistani who owns an Investment Bank at Wall Street, and how he faced many challenges from anti-Muslim elements. Eman Bente Syed will be the producer of ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ who has recently produced movie Jalaibee. Mr Mohammad Ali Khan has vowed to donate all the profits produced from this movie to different ventures for youth causes.
He has had a successful career as Founder & Chairman: The Financial Group, Inc., Federal Advisor to Government of Pakistan, a Member of New Jersey Governors Council. He introduced Islamic Banking Research into mainstream America by co-sponsoring and advising Harvard University to launch Harvard Islamic Finance and Information Program (HIFIP). He has developed “THE World’s First Islamic Banking Benchmark Index on Wall Street named KMS-SAMI: (Socially Aware Muslim Index) which is now a functional index run by The Dow Jones Indices. He has also been featured in “Who’s Who of Top Executives In The World”.
He was nurtured in a highly educated family of Karachi. A family with no insufficiency of Doctors, Lawyers and Ph.Ds. He is also from one of those few families for whom ancestry can be traced to notable lineages. His lineage is traced back from the dynasty of Asaf Jah dynasty, from the family of the Nizam Of Deccan, Mir Osman Alikhan from his paternal side and Syed Ali Asghar Bilgrami, his maternal grandfather, who was the Governor General of the Province of Aurangabad, India.
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan graduated from an Irish Catholic Missionary High School in Karachi with excellent academic grades. From his early age he was obsessed with books and studies but he always dreamt of having a successful carrier in finance. In his late teens his family immigrated to US where he finished his further studies from Rutgers University in the same course that he always wanted to make big in Economics and Finance, but the magnificent lineage went downhill in the new surroundings. Going through University, he worked all kinds of odd jobs to support himself. During his first job in America he was washing dishes and cleaning tables at Burger King on Easton Avenue in New Jersey. He drove taxis, punched tags in the apparel section of Kmart to support his educational expenses in a foreign country but during these jobs one wish derived him to work hard and that was to enter Wall Street and be in the middle of all the action of the Capital Markets and all the hard work and sheer determination finally lead him to where he always wanted to be and he got hired by an investment bank right on Wall Street as an assistant Vice President and he never looked back from that point onwards.
Few years later he moved to another investment bank as a Senior Executive Vice President, International Investment Banking Division. He started to handle international clients and being a bi-linguist, it worked out to be greatly in his favors. Another milestone in his extraordinary journey was to open up his own Boutique Investment Bank on Wall Street in 1995, which was KMS Investment bank the first Muslim owned investment bank in the history of Wall Street. In all this period he has gathered a few hundred million dollars of assets under Advisory & Management and has done over 40 or so investment banking deals, including IPO’s and secondary financing. Side by side he has also started to take a keen interest in politics and was one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party. He believed that Muslims in any country that they permanently settle into should become active in the Democratic process of that country to have their voice heard and counted.
Amongst many other political achievements, He has also become the Member of the Governor’s Council, for the Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, and also a member of the Republican Presidential Task Force, and the first Pakistani ever to have had these honors in America. He has also served General (R) Parvez Musharraf as a legal advisor. He is single handedly raising his two sons for the past 15 years. He is also writing his autobiography which is expected soon to come out. Film makers from Hollywood and Lollywood have joined hands for making a feature film on his expedition of struggle. This is happening to be the first time that Hollywood is making a movie on a Pakistani person. The movie ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ is the story of first Muslim and Pakistani who owns an Investment Bank at Wall Street, and how he faced many challenges from anti-Muslim elements. Eman Bente Syed will be the producer of ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ who has recently produced movie Jalaibee. Mr Mir Mohammad AliKhan has vowed to donate all the profits produced from this movie to different ventures for youth causes.
Mir Mohammad Ali Khan (MirMak) a household name in Pakistan’s finance industry. He was the only Pakistani who has ever been to Wall Street New York and has experienced the perks and cons of the biggest stock market in the world firsthand. He is not only a Wall Street veteran but also an internationally renowned Investment Banker, an Entrepreneur and a Capital Markets Advisor. At the vigorous age of 29, he became the youngest Chairman and Founder of a full service Investment Bank in America and achieved the title, first ever Muslim to have owned an investment bank on Wall Street. He has had a successful career as Founder & Chairman: The Financial Group, Inc., Federal Advisor to Government of Pakistan, a Member of New Jersey Governors Council. He introduced Islamic Banking Research into mainstream America by co-sponsoring and advising Harvard University to launch Harvard Islamic Finance and Information Program (HIFIP). He has developed “THE World’s First Islamic Banking Benchmark Index on Wall Street named KMS-SAMI: (Socially Aware Muslim Index) which is now a functional index run by The Dow Jones Indices. He has also been featured in “Who’s Who of Top Executives In The World”.
He was nurtured in a highly educated family of Karachi. A family with no insufficiency of Doctors, Lawyers and Ph.Ds. He is also from one of those few families for whom ancestry can be traced to notable lineages. His lineage is traced back from the dynasty of Asaf Jah dynasty, from the family of the Nizam Of Deccan, Mir Osman Alikhan from his paternal side and Syed Ali Asghar Bilgrami, his maternal grandfather, who was the Governor General of the Province of Aurangabad, India. Mir Mohammad Ali Khan graduated from an Irish Catholic Missionary High School in Karachi with excellent academic grades. From his early age he was obsessed with books and studies but he always dreamt of having a successful carrier in finance. In his late teens his family immigrated to US where he finished his further studies from Rutgers University in the same course that he always wanted to make big in Economics and Finance, but the magnificent lineage went downhill in the new surroundings. Going through University, he worked all kinds of odd jobs to support himself.
During his first job in America he was washing dishes and cleaning tables at Burger King on Easton Avenue in New Jersey. He drove taxis, punched tags in the apparel section of Kmart to support his educational expenses in a foreign country but during these jobs one wish derived him to work hard and that was to enter Wall Street and be in the middle of all the action of the Capital Markets and all the hard work and sheer determination finally lead him to where he always wanted to be and he got hired by an investment bank right on Wall Street as an assistant Vice President and he never looked back from that point onwards. Few years later he moved to another investment bank as a Senior Executive Vice President, International Investment Banking Division.
He started to handle international clients and being a bi-linguist, it worked out to be greatly in his favors. Another milestone in his extraordinary journey was to open up his own Boutique Investment Bank on Wall Street in 1995, which was KMS Investment bank the first Muslim owned investment bank in the history of Wall Street. In all this period he has gathered a few hundred million dollars of assets under Advisory & Management and has done over 40 or so investment banking deals, including IPO’s and secondary financing. Side by side he has also started to take a keen interest in politics and was one of the biggest contributors to the Republican Party. He believed that Muslims in any country that they permanently settle into should become active in the Democratic process of that country to have their voice heard and counted.
Amongst many other political achievements, He has also become the Member of the Governor’s Council, for the Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, and also a member of the Republican Presidential Task Force, and the first Pakistani ever to have had these honors in America. He has also served General (R) Parvez Musharraf as a legal advisor. He is single handedly raising his two sons for the past 15 years. He is also writing his autobiography which is expected soon to come out. Film makers from Hollywood and Lollywood have joined hands for making a feature film on his expedition of struggle. This is happening to be the first time that Hollywood is making a movie on a Pakistani person. The movie ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ is the story of first Muslim and Pakistani who owns an Investment Bank at Wall Street, and how he faced many challenges from anti-Muslim elements. Eman Bente Syed will be the producer of ‘Karachi to Wall Street’ who has recently produced movie Jalaibee. Mr Mohammad Ali Khan has vowed to donate all the profits produced from this movie to different ventures for youth causes.