Bobby Hashemi
Bobby Hashemi is a British businessman, and is an investor at Union Ventures, a private investment vehicle founded in 2012 by him. In 1995, he co-founded the Coffee Republic (a coffee shop chain) with his sister Sahar Hashemi.
Early life
[edit]Bobby Hashemi has an MBA from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, at Dartmouth College, United States and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, US.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Hashemi started his career as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers Investment Bank in New York City.[citation needed]
Hashemi founded the Coffee Republic chain with his sister Sahar[1] serving as CEO and then executive chairman.[2]
The business was founded in late 1995, floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1997, raised £20 million equity over the following 3 years, and by 2001 he exited the business. Then two years later, he re-joined the business from 2003 to 2006 to lead a turnaround of the business and develop the Coffee Republic deli concept.[3]
From 2007 to 2012, Hashemi was a partner and shareholder at Risk Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm with a £75 million fund investing in growth companies across the UK, where he participated in originating, appraising, executing, and monitoring deals across the consumer sector.[4]
Other activities
[edit]Anyone can Do It
[edit]With his sister, Sahar Hashemi, he co-authored Anyone Can Do It, a business book about the high street coffee chain Coffee Republic.[citation needed]
Speaker
[edit]Hashemi has spoken about entrepreneurship, building a business, fundraising, private equity investing and the consumer and leisure sectors, and has presented to a variety of audiences and at a number of national events including Imperial College,[5] Barclays Bank, Visa Card, Institute of Directors, Fast Track, Talk Radio, British Franchise Association, London Business School, Robert Gordon University and En Passant Magazine.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Market profile: Bobby Hashemi". The Daily Telegraph. London. 24 April 2006.
- ^ "Management Today".
- ^ The Franchise Magazine https://archive.today/20130222082548/http://www.thefranchisemagazine.net/franchise/coffee-republic/founders-of-franchising-bobby-hashemi-coffee/972H. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Business Desk".
- ^ "Imperial College Events". 5 January 2024.
- ^ "En Passant Magazine". Archived from the original on 23 December 2012.