JAWWAD FARID

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Adjunct Faculty

Areas of expertise

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Risk Management

Education

  • Columbia Business School (MBA)

EXPERIENCE

Academic experience

  • Judge, the Asia Pacific ICT Awards, Macau, Singapore & Jakarta
  • Judge, PASHA ICT Award (2006-2009)
  • Mentor to startup teams, MITEF BAP competition (2008-2009)

Corporate experience

  • Serial Entrepreneur

Consulting experience

  • Founder, Mentor & Advisor at multiple startups including two Green Field Life Insurance Companies, Multiple Technology Product Businesses, Financial Services Consulting Operations, Product Focused Distribution as well as Micro Insurance, Micro Pensions and Micro Finance Startups

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Reboot
  • Understanding Commodities Risk
  • Risk Application and Frameworks

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Awards & recognition

  • MITEF business acceleration plan (MIT BAP) runner-up
  • Asia Pacific ICT Award finalist
  • PASHA ICT Award Winner

Other activities

  • Blogs about boot strapping, failure and starting up at Startup Insights