Tariq Fancy

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Mr. Tariq Fancy is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Rumie. He served as Chief Investment Officer of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock. He also serves as Board Member at ActSocial. His successful business career and unique decision to found Rumie has been chronicled in case studies and profiles published by both Harvard Business School and INSEAD Business School. He led a successful career in finance, beginning as a Palo Alto-based technology investment banker in the group that led the IPOs of Google, Amazon, and Cisco. He next joined NYC-based private equity firm MHR Fund Management, where he became the firm's youngest partner in 2006 after leading numerous successful turnarounds of technology companies. He subsequently spent two years at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in Toronto, Canada, helping to create and invest in new credit strategies for the growing platform. In 2004, after trips to Central and South America and months of due diligence, he led early work to bring mobile phones into emerging markets as a 'leapfrog' innovation - back when the idea of the masses from Cairo to Calcutta skipping landlines altogether to go directly to mobile phones sounded far-fetched to many. He holds an Honors B.A. with distinction from Brown University in the US, spent one year studying at Oxford University in the UK, earned a master's degree in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po Paris (L'institut d'études politiques de Paris) in France and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD in France and Singapore.