James Caan (formerly Nazim Khan; born 28 December 1960) is a Pakistani-British investor, entrepreneur, television personality, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw, a UK-based private equity company. He also founded Alexander Mann, a multinational recruitment company, and co-founded Humana International, a multinational headhunting firm. Caan joined the fifth series of BBC2’s Dragons' Den in 2007.
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James Caan (formerly Nazim Khan; born 28 December 1960) is a Pakistani-British investor, entrepreneur, television personality, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw, a UK-based private equity company. He also founded Alexander Mann, a multinational recruitment company, and co-founded Humana International, a multinational headhunting firm. Caan joined the fifth series of BBC2’s Dragons' Den in 2007.
James Caan was born in Lahore, Pakistan. His father was Abdul Rashid Khan, a leather worker; he was born into a household of three brothers and three sisters. His father brought the family to the East End of London in 1962, when Caan was two. The family settled in a home just off Brick Lane (an area with a Bangladeshi majority) and Abdul started a business making leather jackets.
In his youth, Caan worked for his father, but he left school without qualifications at the age of 16, and left home shortly afterwards to pursue his ambitions of founding a business. He...
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