Faraan is the co-founder & CEO of Saarey. He is involved in South Asian classical music since 2005 and continues a family legacy of patronage that dates back to 1959. He is a Global MBA with honours from Columbia Business School-New York, London Business School-London and Hong Kong University-Hong Kong.

Faraan leads the company in its mission to make South Asian classical music easily accessible to everyone around the world, and to spearhead the digital transformation of the industry by creating the digital eco-system for the genre. 

Deven is the co-founder at Saarey. He is a Sloan Leadership fellow from London Business School, a serial entrepreneur and the Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Deven is the superstar who leads the strategy in Saarey and is the mastermind of Saarey Music, which was born at the Lower Ground floor of the Ratcliffe Building at London Business School in 2018. He continues to be the 'life-support' of the company and someone who provides guidance and wisdom to the team.

Nick is one of the co-founders at Saarey. He is an MBA from London Business School, a serial entrepreneur and when he was the subscription manager at Spotify, he helped grow its subscriptions by 2x.

Nick is a stellar data analytics whiz who has helped setup and continues to guide the data analytics infrastructure at Saarey. The actionable insights that he gathers helps us to better understand our users so we can continue to be relevant and deliver a better service to them.

Vicki is one of the world's leading minds in Consumer Psychology. Her research focuses on the impact of the self-predictions of the consumer on their subsequent purchase behavior and the psychology of how consumers process price information. She has published dozens of articles in leading academic journals and is frequently in the media.

Morwitz is currently on the faculty at Columbia Business School, was previously on the faculty at NYU Stern School of Business, and received her PhD in Marketing from the The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. “Saarey provides unique and exclusive access to an impressive and growing collection of South Asian classical music to millions of consumers around the world. I am excited to offer advice on how best to spread the word and grow Saarey Music’s community of South Asian classical music listeners”, commented Morwitz who is an award winning, frequently quoted Professor of Marketing specializing in Behavioral Economics and Decision Making, and Consumer Psychology.

"I am delighted to work with Faraan and the Saarey team as they create the leading South Asian Classical Music platform to build a large, passionate listening audience as well as provide classical musicians great opportunities to showcase their talents", commented Palo Alto based Zakariya. Zakariya is a successful entrepreneur, a leader in the Pakistani startup angel investing eco-system and has decades of investing and executive experience in technology companies. He is currently an SVP at Neo4j.

Previously, Zakariya was at Ping Identity, which had a successful $600m exit, was a founder of TalentCove and was a VP at German software company SAP. He has invested in Seed and early stages of many companies, including some exciting Pakistani startups like Airlift, Tajir and Confiz. He is a Limited Partner in Indus Valley Capital and Sarmayacar and an advisor at StartX Mentor – Stanford University’s startup accelerator. He has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Wharton. Most importantly, he is an avid Pakistani and South Asian classical music fan. 

Dan is an angel investor in tech and one of Saarey's earliest investors. "The significant size of this untapped market in Pakistan and the diaspora; Saarey’s deep connection and access to classical Pakistani music; and the fact that Faraan and his team have already built a product with a rapidly growing, paying customers base – combine to give Saarey an opportunity to create and lead a significant market", commented Isenberg who has invested in over a dozen high growth ventures in the 3 continents.

Dan has been a pioneer in understanding and impacting entrepreneurship ecosystems. He was a professor at Harvard Business School and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Babson College. He is a published author with a book and over 35 digital and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review. He has been featured in The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg LP, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and more. He regularly conducts World Economic Forum events worldwide. Dan holds the Ph.D. degree in social psychology from Harvard University and is most excited about spending time with his four kids and two grandkids, helping his devil investments grow.

"Saarey is a uniquely positioned service, with good market traction for such a young business. I believe that the business lends itself well to the application of AI to accelerate its growth and look forward to working with the founding team", commented Michaelis who is an active angel investor in early stage Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies.

John is one of the world's leading minds in AI investing, a published author in the subject and an active board advisor for early stage technology companies. He was the founding shareholder of Aurora, which became the market leader in AI solutions for the air sector, before a successful exit. His business career includes two decades leading WIT Consultancy, which was a respected boutique, that had the privilege to lead some of the most complex and challenging global change programs in the Telecoms, Technology and Banking sectors.

"I love Saarey’s mission to deliver this incredible music which carries so much cultural significance. Offering this music with the ease of Spotify and the focus of Saavan, I believe Saarey’s global audience is far beyond a niche", commented Silva who is an active angel investor in early stage music companies and a founding member of Techstars Music.

Bill is a Los Angeles based American entrepreneur, entertainment exec and investor through his investment arm Bill Silva Ventures. He makes strategic early stage investments in a broad range of categories spanning music to tech to consumer products. He invests opportunistically and always has his eyes open for mission-driven founders and companies working on game changing concepts. Silva has an insatiable curiosity to connect seemingly unrelated cultures and people to create new opportunities.

"It is rare to be able to be part of and invest in something that is equally purposeful as economically attractive. Saarey enriches the world culturally and brings the magic of its heritage to millions of listeners. 

Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a licence to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.

He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from FinTech, to Biotech and Media.

"Saarey's concept is a unique play on a very well proven business model. With exclusive content and a large addressable market, Saarey has the opportunity to tap into a considerable niche market with little competition. The market opportunity is there and with Faraan as CEO and an experienced board in place the business has the building blocks of the team to deliver on this", says Jellicoe. 

After a corporate career in public companies, Matthew founded and successfully exited two technology businesses in 2012 and 2018 respectively. He has been an active technology investor since 2012 and serves as a Non-Executive Director for two technology businesses. In more recent years he has specialised in sustainable investments.

Matthew holds an Executive MBA from London Business school. 

"Pakistani and South Asian classical music is an enriched form of authentic art which is gaining popularity once again. Saarey is not only preserving classical music but is projecting and promoting it to the world at large which was never done before", comments Sheharyar Ali. 

Syed Sheharyar Ali is the one of the Pakistan’s most prominent business leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs and an acclaimed administrator of an eminent and expansive business group. His diversified portfolio includes manufacturing, healthcare & hospitality, technology, automobiles, trade & distribution, and sports and education, and now music. 

Sheharyar Ali continues his great grandfather's legacy of supporting Pakistani classical music - he is the current President of the All Pakistan Music Conference. He hails from one of Pakistan’s most respected families : his great grandfather was Syed Maratib Ali, his grandfather Syed Wajid Ali and his father is Syed Shahid Ali. Syed Sheharyar Ali has often alluded to his belief that a successful businessman can only be an amalgamation of enlightened self-interest and a social responsibility.

Colin has over 20 years of private banking, sales and asset management experience. "I like the artform and am confident Saarey will continue to grow its audience whilst providing a world class Classical Music platform", commented Colin. 

Colin began his career at Heritage Capital where he was involved in the management of alternative investment funds for high net worth offshore investors. In 1999 he joined Close Wealth Management, a division of Close Brothers PLC, where he managed investment portfolios on behalf of high net worth investors. In 2001 he joined Berry Asset Management PLC to help with business development and the management of high net worth portfolios. In 2007 he was appointed to the Board with responsibility for client management and business development.

Colin is a founding Partner of Quartet Capital Partners LLP and its Managing Partner. He graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Accounting and holds the UK SIP's Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment Diploma (Chartered FCSI)