Zarine Kharas

Dame

Zarine Kharas

DBE
Dame; Zarine Kharas; DBE
Born	June 1951 (age 72); Karachi, Pakistan
Nationality	British
Education	University of Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Co-founder, Justgiving

Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, a global online giving platform.

Kharas was born in June 1951,[1] in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.[2]

She came to the UK to study law at Cambridge and remained. She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law. She then joined Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him. Later she went back to her law firm roots, working with Simmons & Simmons. After which she and Huby started JustGiving.[3]

Honours

In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[4]

References

"JUSTGIVING FOUNDATION". Companies House. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
Blackhurst, Chris (16 March 2011). "JustGiving's co-founder has good cause to make a profit". ES. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
Profile, standard.co.uk; accessed 13 June 2015.
Treanor, Jill (12 June 2015). "High-profile figures in business and finance named in the honours list". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2015.

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[CompaniesHouse-1] "JUSTGIVING FOUNDATION". Companies House. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[ES-2] Blackhurst, Chris (16 March 2011). "JustGiving's co-founder has good cause to make a profit". ES. Retrieved 13 June 2015.

[3] Profile, standard.co.uk; accessed 13 June 2015.

[Guardian-4] Treanor, Jill (12 June 2015). "High-profile figures in business and finance named in the honours list". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2015.