Zak’s Trader’s Cafe – http://www.zakstraderscafe.com/
sqmir@hotmail.com
Saqib “Zak” Mir was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Pakistani immigrant Doctor parents in 1966. The family moved to London in the early 1970s and Zak attended prep school and then Harrow from 1980- 1984, which was distinguished only by winning the General Knowledge Prize in 1980. Successful A Level retakes following Harrow gave him the chance to be one of the few people in the world to fail interviews for Oxford (twice), Cambridge and Harvard, although he did subsequently get the chance turn down reading Theology at Oxford. There were then a few weeks at the LSE before the international airport (the run up to the Gaddafi era) atmosphere persuaded him to enter the City. From the early 1990s Zak was a derivatives broker at various companies such as Sucden, Union Cal (later part of Man Group) and Berkeley Futures.
