Omar Farooqui
Omar Farooqui is an entrepreneur, investor and startup enthusiast. He is the Founder and President of Coded Minds. Wanting to disrupt the educational industry from the ground up, not just through pedagogy but also price, through his vision of merging public and private education as one.
With this mission, he created Coded Minds in 2017. Omar's previous ventures were Green Sands Equity out of San Francisco and previously CapInvest (latterly CI Holdings), which was a joint initiative with the asset management arm of United Overseas Bank of Singapore. He was also on the Mutual Funds Board of Saudi Fransi Capital for several years. His corporate life is split between Algebra Capital, Deutsche Bank & NCB Capital out of Saudi Arabia. An avid tennis player, he invests and ventures through his investment vehicle, Five Rivers Holdings.