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Visram
Visram is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Allidina Visram (1851–1916), Indian settler *Shazi Visram (born 1976), American entrepreneur *Sugra Visram (1923–2012), Ugandan politician {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shazi Visram
Shazi Visram is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, CEO, and Chief Mom of Happy Family Brands. Early life and education Visram was born in Toronto to immigrants from Pakistan and Tanzania. At the age of three, she moved with her parents and brother to Birmingham, Alabama, where they lived in a room at the motel the family operated. Visram says that owning their own business was her parents’ biggest source of both stress and pride. She credits her entrepreneurial parents for their example. Visram graduated from Indian Springs School in Indian Springs, AL before attending Columbia University, where she received her BA in History and Visual Arts in 1999, and later her MBA from Columbia Business School (‘04) in Management and Entrepreneurship. Career Founding Happy Family While attending Columbia Business School, Visram began writing her business plan for Happy Family after chatting with a friend, who admitted to feeling gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allidina Visram
Allidina Visram (185130June 1916) was an Indian settler, merchant, and philanthropist who played a prominent role in the development of British East Africa. Biography Visram was born in Kera, Kutch, in the Bombay Presidency of British India in 1851. He migrated penniless to Zanzibar at the age of 12, and found work with a prominent local trader, Sewa Haji Paroo, one of the caravan trade's most active financiers. He soon branched out and began organising his own caravans into the interior. He achieved significant commercial success after entering the ivory trade and coming up with an idea to provide packaged foods to hunters on expedition. During the construction of the Uganda railway, he opened many stores along the track and became the sole supplier of food to the Indian workers along the line. He won the trust of their British engineers, and was awarded a contract to pay the Indian workers and at the same time provide funds to the British constructors.Howard Schwartz, The Ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |