2008 event speaker - Shahid Azeem

Entrepreneur, Channel 4's 'Secret Millionaire'

British-Asian entrepreneur Shahid Azeem recently appeared on the Channel 4 TV show “Millionaire’s Mission”. 

From a humble background, the Guildford-based entrepreneur together with seven other successful British business leaders accepted the challenge by leading development agency World Vision to improve the living standards of a remote Ugandan farming community and exchanged his five-star lifestyle for living in a makeshift camp without running water.

Shahid was born in Meera Matore, a village near Islamabad, but left Clark’s Grammar School in Guildford without any qualifications.

In 1977 Shahid decided to become a professional footballer for Aldershot but after acquiring an injury he was unable to continue with his sporting career.

That was the turning point in Shahid’s life as he established A&P Computers, which he built to a £100 million turnover business.

A&P was voted one of the UK’s top ten fastest growing companies, and in 2005 Shahid struck a multi-million pound deal to sell to a French MNC.

Shahid Azeem is now the Managing Director of Arcom a Surrey-based IT Company, and is in the process of setting up a Vocational Training College in Islamabad, Pakistan in collaboration with Surrey University.