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Niaz Faruqui

Corporate Venture Capitalist

Houston, Texas

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

1994

  • VC Investor

    2018

    Transactional level full deal flow experience including lead role in landscaping, origination, diligence, negotiations, executing investments, and post-investment governance.

  • Pricing Lead

    2013 - 2018

    Led crude and products price forecasting, internal transfer pricing, fundamental analysis, inventory management and projects.

  • S&OP Coordinator

    2012 - 2013

    Coordinated the Sales and Operational Planning process, product disposition, channel and export optimization.

  • Global Value Chain Analyst

    2010 - 2011

    Coordinated the development and implementation of process improvement and sustainability efforts for the global downstream business processes.

  • S&OP Coordinator

    2007 - 2010

    Led the development and execution of S&OP for central and south Africa. Managed several sub-teams such as raw materials and refinery optimization, demand and price forecasting, and internal transfer pricing.

  • Regional Value Chain Analyst

    2004 - 2007

    Deployed global business processes and supply chain best practices across the region. Led the crude and products optimization processes as LP planner and worked on the successful migration from a legacy LP model (PIMS) to Chevron’s proprietary system (Petro).

  • Various early career assignments

    1994 - 2004

    Led the in-bound and out-bound logistics, long-term offtake agreements, and import tendering process. Implemented road transport safety initiatives around driver, vehicle and journey management. Other assignments in OE/ HES, QA, operations, optimization, strategic and business planning, in Karachi (Pakistan), Dallas (USA), Seoul (South Korea) and Dubai (UAE).