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Zain Kahn

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Investor & Advisor

AKIN Ventures

AKIN Ventures provides direct investment and strategic partnership to innovative, positively disruptive companies in the Health, Well-Being, & Lifestyle industries. Start-ups, mid cap/growth and in 1 case, a non-profit. The fund's missions is to support business as a 'force for good'.
• Sectors: Health & Wellness, Apparel, Lifestyle, & Hospitality 
• Causes: Social Impact Investing, Health & Wellness, Meditation
• Partnerships include: Storelli Sports, Quantum Energy Bars, Urban Umbrella, Grameen America 
• Direct Investments: Peloton, Samba TV, Beyond Meat, Poshmark, + Others

Founder & Managing Partner 

Health Information Project (HIP), Inc.

Health Information Project (HIP) is a nonprofit organization, based in Miami, Florida. HIP empowers high school students to tackle the health crises of their generation. The program is revolutionizing health education by transforming high school students into teachers and disrupting traditional health classes with a new, innovative peer-to-peer model. HIP is poised to change the way health education is taught in high schools nationwide!

Chairman of the Board

The David Lynch Foundation

Since 2005, the David Lynch Foundation has helped to bring the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique to more than 500,000 children and adults around the world. Efforts are focused on underserved inner-city students; veterans with PTSD; and women and children who are survivors of violence and abuse.

Senior Advisor 

Casa Del Sol Tequila

Female co-founded and targeted brand disrupting the tequila sector. 🚀

Quantum Energy Squares

Sports nutrition that's giving a boost to peak performance training. Official Energy bar for Ironman Triathlon Series 💪🏻

Storelli

Sports tech apparel and fashion that’s positively disrupting soccer and contact sports! Protective head and body gear ⚽️

Investor & Advisory Board

ESPN

•  ESPN, A Walt Disney Company, is the Worldwide Leader in sports media and entertainment
• Built and managed an international sales-representative team with offices in Japan, Korea, China, South Africa and Latin America
• Structured traditional and digital media campaigns. Clients included: Toyota, Sony, KIA Motors, Hyundai, Nokia, Samsung, and LG Electronics, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros Pictures. 
• Launched sales initiative for ESPN Deportes, US Hispanic network
• Strategized with senior client decision makers on how to optimize media buying and leverage their association with professional sports leagues and events.  
• Met and/or exceeded worldwide sales budget goals annually.

Manager, International Media Sales

MTV Networks

• MTV Networks, is the media division of ViacomCBS that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, The Comedy Channel, VH1
• Represented Nickelodeon as the network launched in the Latin American market
• Managed a sales staff with offices in Miami, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina

Manager, Latin American Media Sales

As an International Business Development Executive, Entrepreneur and Investor I have always strived to both build and invest in companies that add value to people’s lives. For 20 years I have focused on business growth in health & wellness, sports & social enterprise.

Having spent the last 15 years as a venture capital & impact investor, I have spent my career at the unique intersection of both investing in and growing companies. An experienced entrepreneur, I’ve built and grown start-ups from the ground up: acquisition, corporate expansion, business development, marketing, branding, sale of business.  

I’ve enjoyed business development and sales executive roles for globally recognized brands: ESPN (Walt Disney Company) & MTV Networks (Viacom).

A strategic thinker with a clear understanding of the complexities facing entrepreneurs as well as investors, I enjoy serving as a strategic advisor to portfolio company CEOs or to the advisory board.  

Distinct ability to synthesize complex ideas and communicate them clearly to a diverse, and at times, highly demanding audience.

Having worked in New York City, Miami, London, Los Angeles and currently Madrid, I possess a global mindset.  I’ve developed strong cross-cultural and international management experience. I'm multilingual: English, Spanish, Italian.  

I’ve always attempted to pursue success while staying true to myself and the causes I believe in.  A passion for business serving as a “force for good” has led me to advocate for The David Lynch Foundation, Virgin Unite, Grameen Bank, Ashoka, and Human Rights Watch. 

Passions include traveling the world with my family, skiing, surfing and practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  

Masters Degree in International Management (MBA).  Bachelor of Arts International Affairs .  

“Stay curious, keep learning, never stop growing and exploring.”

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