Profile of the Directors

Zafarullah (Zafar) Karim, 43, brings over two decades of investment banking and financial experience, including turning around companies, restructurings, financial strategy and investment and risk management to the Company.

Zafar has served as a Board member for several companies and has acted as a consultant to various businesses and entrepreneurs in relation to their financial and investment strategies. Zafar is also a principal investor. From 1994 to 2002, Zafar worked for NM Rothschild in London, Warsaw, Prague and Johannesburg. He started his career in 1990 with the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers.

Zafar is the driving force behind the turnaround and rebuilding of Legendary Investments. Zafar was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge.


Rajesh (Raj) Kumar Rai, 44, is an entrepreneurial renewable energy specialist. Raj founded and has been a director of a number of businesses including a company specialising in the transfer worldwide of know-how developed by large scale plantation companies in India. He was also a founder director of Human Energy (Uganda) Ltd which has developed nursery plantation operations in Uganda. Raj has a deep understanding of bio fuels and overcoming the inherent issues in developing large scale plantations. In 2009, he founded Earth Bio Energy Ltd which promotes ethical bio fuel production and provides assistance in developing bio energy producing plantations.

Raj started his professional life as a Barrister called in 1993 to Lincoln's Inn.


Thomas (Tom) Reuner, 46 is an experienced strategy consultant. His deep understanding of the dynamics of the IT and telecommunications sectors comes from senior positions with IDC in Germany and with Gartner, NelsonHall and KPMG Consulting in the United Kingdom. Tom's expertise lies in investment research, evaluating and formulating business and IT strategy and analysing technology adoption.

Thomas has a PhD from the University of Göttingen in Germany.