Dowshan Humzah, Director & Commercial Partner

Dowshan has delivered innovation and profitable growth for many blue-chip companies and is now growing a number of start-ups. He supports The Worst Kept Secret in its business ventures and development. He is a strong advocate of education having been a Governor of a London school and a business mentor.

Having graduated from The London School of Economics majoring in Accounting and Finance, Dowshan has held business building roles for a range of companies. He began his career in Brand Management with Procter & Gamble where he launched HUGO by Hugo Boss in the UK. He then moved to Orange heading International Products delivering significant revenue growth. After that he moved to ntl (Virgin Media) and as Director of Marketing, Planning and Strategy – helped them become the UK’s largest broadband provider. Most recently, he was Business Transformation Director at Royal & SunAlliance.

Dowshan has an entrepreneurial flair having worked at a senior level in start-ups (such as a VC backed online car importing service and a privately funded TV channel). He also co-founded and remains a Non-Executive Director of a digital production studio in India delivering visual effects and animation. He has also provided marketing and business development consultancy for a variety of organisations including VC firms, a premiership football club and media agencies.

You can connect with Dowshan via Linkedin.