Rashad Khan

Current

• CEO at Smarter Mergers (Smarter Investments Inc)

Past

• Project Director at Realtime Consultants LLC
• Principal Consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers
• Principal Consultant at PWC

• Various at Industry Leaders
• Senior Manager at Price Waterhouse
• Computer Services Manager at SAP
• Computer Manager at Al Muzaini Company - Kuwait

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Education

• Imperial College London

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Industry

Financial Services

Rashad Khan’s Summary

• Broad leadership experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, Management Consulting, Business Management, Technology Management, Real Estate & Property Development
• Extensive experience in business management, venture evaluations and deal management
• Over 6 years of progressive Mergers & Acquisitions experience in USA
• Background in working with diverse and multicultural groups including in USA, UK, Germany, Kuwait, UAE
• International Project Management in complex company structures and Industries
• Stakeholder management for selected deals and projects
• Deal origination, selection, evaluation and execution experience
• Experience in industries including FMCG, Banking, Real Estate, Industry and Retail
• Deep experience in IT, Technology management, ERP Implementations

Rashad Khan’s Specialties:

Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions, Management Consulting, Acquisition Finance

Rashad Khan’s Experience

• CEO

  Smarter Mergers (Smarter Investments Inc)

  (Banking industry)

  January 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

  A privately held boutique M&A firm helping clients acquire, sell businesses, raise capital and provide related advisory services.
  
  Leading the firm in: ►Developing and executing business development strategies; ►Working with clients for deal origination, evaluation, structuring, financing in acquisition of businesses or business assets. ►Collaborating with external professional advisors to finance and conclude acquisitions. ►Assist clients with divestitures through extensive network of affiliates, colleagues and outside professionals; ►Identify, target, recruit, train and manage staff.
  
  Key Accomplishments:
  • Developed and implemented processes to support buy and sell side client transactions
  • Identified and evaluated appropriate methods and sources for M&A deals
  • Formed and mobilized an effective M&A team of internal and external professionals
  • Managed and concluded several transactions successfully
  • Identified, selected and managed vendors for Recruiting, Lead Generation, Marketing, Financing, Valuations and Legal Services

• Project Director

  Realtime Consultants LLC

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  August 2002 — April 2009 (6 years 9 months)

  A professional services firm in Management Consulting, Training and ERP Implementation
  
  Leading the firm in: ►Developing and executing business development strategies; ►Working with clients & Consultants to audit, assess current procedures, processes, systems and help implement more effective solutions based on best practice solutions ►Assist clients achieve their goals for business effectiveness ►Identify, target, recruit, train and manage staff.
  
  Key Accomplishments:
  • Audited and evaluated companies internal and major client’s processes and systems
  • Developed and implemented processes to support client business more effectively
  • Formed and mobilized an effective project team of internal and external professionals
  • Reviewed and lead major client projects and concluded several projects successfully
  • Helped secure additional business and projects for the firm

• Principal Consultant

  Price Waterhouse Coopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  April 1994 — August 2002 (8 years 5 months)

  Leading Global consulting firm who went from the smallest of the big 8 to the largest of the big four during my tenure. The Legacy firm Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers and Lybrand to become PWC but eventually, the Management Consulting Services division was bought out by IBM Global Services in 2002.
  
  ►Worked closely with Project Proposal teams to develop winning proposals and presentations and participated in winning significant engagements for the firm. ►Played key role in developing the SAP practice ►Project managed several high revenue SAP Implementations
  
  Key Accomplishments:
  • Established and assisted in operating SAP Technology Competency Center
  • Lead Technology and BI Teams in state of the art projects and technology solutions
  • Managed several multimillion dollar Client Projects for the firm
  • Helped win major ERP Projects for the firm
  • Assisted in International recruiting of subject matter experts

• Principal Consultant

  PWC

  (Partnership; Accounting industry)

  April 1994 — August 2002 (8 years 5 months)

  See above

• Various

  Industry Leaders

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  January 1971 — August 2002 (31 years 8 months)

  Have a long and progressive history of excellent positions and roles in world class organizations like Price Waterhouse Coopers, SAP, ICL, and others. Roles included IT Management, Business Management, Business Development, Consulting and practice development roles. Industries varied ranging from IT to consumer goods, professional services to education, consulting,M&A and banking.

• Senior Manager

  Price Waterhouse

  (Management Consulting industry)

  April 1994 — July 1997 (3 years 4 months)

  As PWC above

• Computer Services Manager

  SAP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAP; Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years )

  The largest ERP software firm based in Germany .later expanding globally.
  
  Performed a wide variety of functions including, ►major client relationship or account management, ►technology management, ►consulting, ►training and ►presales activities.
  
  Key Accomplishments:
  • Introduced and implemented networking strategy for SAP UK.
  • Negotiated and arranged for LAN Installation at SAP UK suitable for SAP R/2 and R/3.
  • Helped in launch and introduction of SAP R/3 Client-Server System to the UK.
  • Negotiated with Computer Hardware partners for cooperation on R/3.

• Computer Manager

  Al Muzaini Company - Kuwait

  (Banking industry)

  February 1980 — December 1988 (8 years 11 months)

  Well known foreign exchange and investment banking firm based in Kuwait..
  
  While officially responsible for the Computer Department, was consulted with the board of directors on many strategic and managerial issues.
  
  Key Accomplishments:
  • Negotiated MIS strategy & budgets with the Board of Directors and implemented.
  • Developed and implemented MIS plans in line with corporate strategy to budget.
  • Designed training programs for DP staff and user department personnel
  • Designed and implemented applications for Banking, Foreign Exchange and Accounting on a multi location distributed network
  • Managed and directed MIS resources of the firm with fourteen IT staff and 100+ staff company-wide

Rashad Khan’s Education

• Imperial College London

  MBA , Internationl Trade, New Ventures , 1989 — 1991

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