Firoz Shroff
As a seasoned, aspired and
focused entrepreneur, Mr. Shroff has in the last
15 years been experimenting and researching non-profit,
philanthropic venturing and social entrepreneurship field. His
dedication and present focus as founder sponsor is to formulate an
innovative structure to bring to maturity Social Entrepreneurship
Consortium Inc, as 1st public listed billion dollar non-profit entity on
stock exchange. As a role model for new direction in the
non-profit sector, he is implementing a road map and blue print to
practically utilize the present resources of $120 trillion global
capital market base.
He is founder member of SASI Foundation
and President of Homeland International and Ex-President and now mentor
to United Nations Association
of Canada Toronto Branch which he helped to revive. A catalyst, founder and
sponsor he also re-establish UNAP United Nations Association
in SAARC region after 35 years of closure. He has experience in strategic planning,
mergers and acquisitions, international capital market, shares, debt
instruments, currency & commodities futures, options, arbitrage,
derivatives, investment banking and corporate management. He has over 40
years hands on experience in the development and operation of businesses
and investments in SAARC region, Canada and other countries.
His primary emphasis is on value adding in
public listed companies, private businesses and social organizations
through application of qualitative analysis to identify their valuable
intrinsic assets and developing strategies to capitalize them by
providing them with necessary resources including mentoring to increase
shareholders value. Mr. Shroff specializes and has talents in providing
a combination of business development, strategic and value adding
direction, valufacturing, management and financial restructuring
experience to both privately and publicly held companies with a matured
insight. During his career, he has handled transactions in substantial
ten figures for investors and his own account. Biographical
information by honor of invitation led to notable mention in
world-renowned publications such as Who's Who in America, Who's is Who
in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the World and The Men of
Achievement and Honor List and many others. He has an Honorary
Appointment to Board of Directors Research at The American Biographical
Institute and has affiliations with various international social
and business organizations. Mr. Shroff has worked in, visited more than
thirty countries and is a Canadian citizen. He has now dedicated his
time and personal resources to promote social entrepreneurship to assist
social sector to create self-sustaining entities through collaboration
of commerce with philanthropy and non-profit with profit to apply his
Social Wealth Origination model utilizing the global capital markets.
Mr. Shroff had also been invited as a Keynote
speaker at various events in which has spoke on various topics.
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Hashwin Ganesh - Resource Manager
Hashwin and his wife Priyanka both have participated with Mr. Firoz
Shroff in various Social entrepreneurial projects both in time and
financial resources. Both have social, volunteer, business and
philanthropic background while working in India, Thailand and other Far
Eastern Countries with command in several languages.
Hashwin is an entrepreneur, author, scientist based in Toronto, Canada.
He hails from a long-line of scholars, lawyers and historians from the
Indian sub-continent. His great-great-great-grand father authored the
first Tamil to English dictionary (https://www.amazon.com/Tamil-Dictionary-V-Pillai-Viswanatha/dp/078599811X)
in the 19th century and his great-great-grand father (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Kanakasabhai)
is the prominent author of “Tamils eighteen hundred years ago”,
the first chronological text of Tamil history, published by
Higginbotham’s in 1904. Hashwin brings with him over 10 years of
experience in scientific research & development and has published in
areas such as electrochemical/optical biosensors, nanotechnology,
chemical neuroscience and stem cells
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=7J3GOuQAAAAJ&hl=en.
He is a futurist who is passionate about emerging technologies,
post-secondary education, youth skill development, immigration, social
equity and actualization of human potential. His unique international
experience has blessed him with a large network of international friends
from diverse backgrounds with whom he has forged strong bonds of
friendship and kinship. He is the recipient of various awards such as
City of Toronto International Student Excellence for professional
achievement from the late mayor of Toronto, Mr. Rob Ford and is a
two-time recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II graduate award for science
and technology at the University of Toronto. He is also an active member
of the Liberal party of Canada and United Nations Association in Canada,
Toronto (UNACTO).
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Michael Blakely
Michael Blakely has over 7 years of business development; marketing and sales experience combined with 5 years of project management skills. Operating out of SEC’s Niagara office in St. Catharines, Ontario, Michael works closely with the SEC team to continually identify and manage a number of local Real Estate projects in Canada and the United States. Michael also heads up the SEC’s financial services division which includes providing short and long term financing, overseas remittances, on-line financial services and various other “alternative” financial solutions.
In addition, Michael also acts as one of the initial points of contact for entrepreneurs who are looking for funding and support for various projects.
After graduating from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, with a Major in Marketing, Michael spent 5 years in the broadcast industry traveling extensively throughout Canada. Shortly after leaving the broadcast industry Michael helped a handful of new start-ups grow and build a solid business model before starting his own financial services company specializing in the “sub-prime” lending market.
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Lee K. Kang
Working closely with SEC since its incorporation, Lee assists the team
as an independent consultant from time to time with SEC's overall business
development and resource management activities. With more than ten years
of strategy development, marketing, management and business development
experience as a management consultant and business development manager,
Lee is responsible for building SEC into a global organization. He
has previous industry experience in the consumer, technology, Internet,
and e-business sectors, while with Ernst & Young Management Consulting,
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and iBGEN, Inc. in East Asia.
Lee received a Masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law &
Diplomacy, with emphasis on international business and a Bachelor of
Arts degree in economics and international relations from the University
of Wisconsin at Madison. He attributes his interests in international
politics and social development, love for travel, and eagerness to learn
new cultures to his extensive international experience of having lived
in eight different countries.
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Saeed Y. Chinoy
Mr. Chinoy
belongs to one of the most prominent business, professional, political
and philanthropic families of the Indo-Pak sub-continent. He and his family members have been on the board of directors
or held the chairmanship of various multinational companies working in
the region and have held the Presidency of the Indian Legislative
Assembly (1930-32), The Viceroy's Advisory Council been represented
at the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. His grandfather was
President of All India Muslim League in Agra in 1914, Chairman of the
Indian fiscal commission in 1923, and Member of the Viceroy’s Advisory
Council. Family members have been Mayors of Bombay, Honorary
Magistrates and Justice of the Peace. More recent positions include
First High Commissioner to the court of St. James, London, Ambassador to
France, Minister of Commerce, Governor, Honorary Consuls of Liberia and Greece. The family have held
board seats and ownership interests in English Electric, The Metal Box
Company, ICI, Engro Chemicals, Reckitt and Coleman Ltd., Premier Sugar
Mills, International Industries, and several other
companies.
He and his family members business interests in India includes real
estate, transportation and communication as well as being agents for
General Motors and sole agents for Burmah Oil.
He contributes his
time, resources and relationship as a social entrepreneur of various
organizations as well as member and Vice President of Oxford and Cambridge
Society. He has been or is currently a member of various clubs; Sind Club, Polo
Club, Golf Club, Boat Club,
Gymkhana Club, Association of Cambridge University, The
Pitt Club, The Cambridge University Polo Club and The Union Society
Cambridge University. He was awarded a blue for playing Polo for
Cambridge University. Mr. Chinoy has played an active role in incubating
various philanthropic, social and commercial entities internally and
with external intermediaries as well as building relationships for the
Sasi Foundation globally and supporting its social
entrepreneurship program.
He has 35 years of
business experience and has been on the Board of well-known global and
regional companies. He has hands on experience in complete business
cycles from idea to implementation. He obtained his Bachelors and
Masters degrees from Cambridge University in 1964 and 1967. He has
played many roles such as Advisor, Board member, General Manager,
Consultant, Partner, Idea Sponsor in the SAARC and Middle East region,
including for Xenel Industries Group of Companies of Saudi Arabia in
different projects such as the HUBCO Power Plant (1292 Megawatt Power
Plant) and also promoting various multi million dollar
projects in Asian Infrastructure Development such as an Oil Terminal in
Port Qasim with British Petroleum BP and IPCO Marine of Singapore;
and a Mass Transit System. He was Senior Vice President of Saudi
Services and Operating Co. SSOC, a joint venture with Boeing Services
International Co. a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company of
USA. One of his major achievements in 1980 was negotiating the 1st
contract of US $550 million for the operation and maintenance of Dhahran
International Airport and King Abdul Aziz Airbase in Saudi Arabia. In
1977 he also started Arabian Bulk Trade Ltd. and Saudi Bulk Transport
Ltd. to import and distribute bulk cement in Saudi Arabia. He has done
consultancy work for Gerad S.A (Geneva) in Saudi Arabia, Enterprise
Technology Development Plc, of Wiltshire England, Zain Consulting and
Saudi Gulf Intertrade to name a few. Mr Chinoy has been involved in
collective transactions in excess of US 2 billion during his 35 years
business career on account of his family members, business partners and
his clients. He is presently a Sponsor of an International Club, a project that has revenue in access of US 150 million which
proposes going for public listing in USA through reverse merger.
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Peter
Thomas Yee
Mr. Peter Yee
received a Bachelor of Science in Finance & International Business from
the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and
a Diploma with Honors from Fordham Preparatory School, New York. He has
over 20 years experience in real estate and has been associated with the third
largest real estate firm in New York, The Charles H. Greenthal Group of
Companies, USA. His experience includes Investments, Human Resource
Management, General Administration, Legal and Sales. Mr. Yee worked as a
Strategic Management Consultant for the theatrical group, thedramaloft,
in New York. Being with Cantor-Fitzgerald Relief Fund effort
and NYU's Center for Health Promotions. He has a remarkable
international outlook as a citizen of the U.S., having traveled
extensively from an early age to more than 100 countries. He has his way
around many languages, fluently speaking Dutch, French, German, Spanish
and Italian. During his travels, Mr. Yee gained an understanding of
various cultures, customs and conditions. He is a member of the
Executive Team at Sasi Foundation and participates in the support and
assistance group to establish Sasi Foundation, USA, advancing its Social
Entrepreneurship mission globally
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SEC Global Network
In addition to our team in Toronto, SEC has the advantage of pooling valuable expertise, knowledge, and resources from it's global network of professionals and entrepreneurs.
SEC Global Team Difference 1) Collectively, we possess more than six decades of hands-on international experience in creating wealth with broad experience in the analysis and redesign of M&A's, break-ups, divestitures, spin-offs, split-ups, swaps, carve-outs, corporate finance advisory, deal structuring, international tax and financial planning, trust and escrow management, global investment strategies, capital investment strategies, capital market functions, upfront SOTEMIA derivatives and 'valuefacturing' wealth. We are ready to address your business needs and will dedicate ourselves to becoming your dependable partner on your road to success.
2) The SEC team and network of advisors are committed to social causes around the world. We have an extensive record of supporting and nurturing social sector organizations and SEC is affiliated with many leading social entrepreneurs and philanthropists around the globe. Firoz Shroff has himself created the SASI Foundation in 1999 to support non-profit and philanthropic initiatives with commitment to disseminate social entrepreneurship globally. As its Executive Chairman, he is actively involved in the management and operation of it activities. He is also involved professionally, culturally and socially with various non-profits and charitable organizations.
Many volunteers from around the world have joined him his social
endeavors.
Please visit www.firozshroff.com to learn more about his vision of social entrepreneurship and the activities he proposes to carry-out through the foundation.
3) Our global network of business partners allow us to extend our business activities beyond Canada's borders and leverage decades of their valuable knowledge and expertise. Currently, our network reaches the USA, Oceania, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, East Africa and South America.
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