Khurram Zafar

Board Director

Mr Khurram Zafar is the Founder and Country Director of 47 Ventures, an international Venture Capital firm exclusively focused on early-stage investments in high-growth-potential technology businesses in Pakistan. He is also a private sector, independent member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Technology-Driven Knowledge Economy and an Investment Committee member of Singapore based Insitor Impact Asia Fund. Previously, as Executive Director at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), he founded the Center for Entrepreneurship, now called National Incubation Center, Lahore. Mr Khurram has been an adviser to both the Federal and Punjab governments in matters related to higher education, research, technology, agriculture, investments, innovation, and startup ecosystem. He is also a founding member of the Pakistan Innovation Foundation.

Previously Mr Khurram was Chief Information Officer at Lahore Stock Exchange where he led the technology operations for the Exchange and was recognized as the best private sector CIO in Pakistan.

Before that, in Silicon Valley, California, Mr Khurram co-founded Epiance and Insight Technologies. Epiance was a product company that automated the process of documentation generation for software systems while Insight Technologies used the IP for automation of human-executed, IT-enabled business processes for the BPO industry. Earlier in the United States, at eForce and Haddon Hill Group, Mr Khurram worked as Vice President of Technology and served Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Key clients included Visa, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Sony, DHL and several venture capital firms including Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, CapitalZ and Visa Ventures. He is a Prentice Hall published author on wireless networking technology.

Mr Khurram did his Bachelor in Computer Engineering from McGill University in Canada in 1997. He is a Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance approved, LUMS trained, independent director and serves on the boards of Aequitas Information Services, Healthwire, and several other portfolio companies of his Venture Capital fund.