By: crescentwealth.com.au
Source: http://www.crescentwealth.com.au/
Fund management executive Omar Khan has won Australia’s Top Emerging Leader award. The Australian Financial Review’s BOSS and University of Sydney Business School award includes a scholarship to the university’s MBA program.
Mr Khan, 34, is director of strategy and development with Crescent Wealth, a fund manager that specialises in investing in line with Islamic business principles.
He is also executive director of YoYo Button, a mobile technology start-up.
Mr Khan’s parent sent him to Australia to study at the age of 12 to escape civil war in Kashmir.
AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY
“From the age of 12, I did not really see my father until I finished high school,” Mr Khan said. “At the time it was difficult, but looking back it was an amazing opportunity to come to Australia and study.”
The judging panel comprised Richard Hall, associate dean of the Business School; Michael Rebelo, chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi; Sean Aylmer, director, Business Media, Fairfax Media; and Joanne Gray, BOSS editor.
“Mr Khan now has a life-changing opportunity to share his journey with other emerging leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds,” said the Business School’s co-dean Professor Tyrone Carlin. The Emerging Leaders Scholarship “provides the next generation of leaders with a unique opportunity to develop their leadership practice,” said Professor David Grant, business school co-dean.
Eleven finalists for the award were chosen from the shortlist and put through several rounds of judging.
[He was chosen for the Scholarship from a large pool of applicants following a rigorous process including an assessment of individual leadership strengths and weaknesses using a method developed by one of the Business School’s industry partners, the global leadership and talent consulting firm, Korn/Ferry International.]
The Competition
Financial Review BOSS Magazine and the University of Sydney Business School launched the Search for Australia’s Top Emerging Leader with a grand prize that includes a $60,000 Sydney MBA scholarship on offer to the winner.
Participants in the Search were assessed over a series of rigorous judging rounds, and their performance in each judged by a panel of industry experts, as well as representatives from the Australian Financial Review and the Business School. The 2013 winner – Omar Khan, Director of Strategy and Development at Crescent Wealth – receives an incredible prize as a reward, which includes:
- A $60,000 Sydney MBA Scholarship to enroll in the University of Sydney Business School MBA program in 2014.
- A Master class with some of Australia’s foremost leadership educators
- Media training, delivered by Australia’s leading business and finance news publication, The Australian Financial Review.
- A seat at a Leadership Lunch, with some of Australia’s most high profile professionals.
- Publication of an opinion piece in BOSS Magazine.
- Membership to the BOSS Emerging Leaders Program.
The Search for Australia’s Top Emerging Leader is about more than just previous academic achievements.
“This search isn’t about finding a candidate with above average academic ability,” said Professor Richard Hall, Associate Dean Management Education at the Business School. “What we’re looking for is someone who represents the very ideal of leadership; someone who we believe is destined for greatness in industry, and who can show us a true passion for development that they can use to become a great leader.”
