Shakil Khan

Current

• Advisor at Spotify

Past

• Co-Founder and Managing Director at CardSmart Ltd
• Managing Director and Founder at Buy.at Leads (now part of Advertising.com)
• Co Founder at Freesearch.co.uk

• Director and Founder at SMSboy.com

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Websites

• Spotify

Shakil Khan’s Summary

Internet Entrepreneur with a number of UK based START UPs since 2000, been around the block and have the T-Shirt and Scars to prove it, Currently working in the Consumer Finance Space in the UK with a view to returning to Asia by 2012.

Shakil Khan’s Specialties:

Entering highly competitive Business Sectors, Networking, Learning Chinese, Business Development, Fund Raising.

Shakil Khan’s Experience

• Advisor

  Spotify

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Co-Founder and Managing Director

  CardSmart Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — July 2009 (10 months)

  My latest project which is launching at end of January 2009, Credit Card Comparison done the way it should be ...

• Managing Director and Founder

  Buy.at Leads (now part of Advertising.com)

  (Internet industry)

  December 2001 — August 2008 (6 years 9 months)

  Buy.at Leads and parent company Buy.at were acquired by AOL's Advertising.com in February 2008, business as usual and I am still running the Lead Gen side of the business.

• Co Founder

  Freesearch.co.uk

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2004 — September 2004 (7 months)

  JP Jones and I co founded Freesearch.co.uk after I read "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell, it worked just like we expected and was aquired by Shopping.net within 6 months and is now part of the Valueclick Group.

• Director and Founder

  SMSboy.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2000 — March 2001 (6 months)

  This was my big .com dream which took off amazingly but at a very challenging time for the industry we are in, it taught me a lot about how the BIG boys play and also the power of media after the launch was featured on CNN breakfast news.

Additional Information

Shakil Khan’s Websites:

• Spotify

Shakil Khan’s Interests:

Reading, High Performance Driving, Travelling, Speaking Mandarin, Disruptive Technologies, Emerging Markets,

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