Zarine Kharas

Dame Zarine Kharas DBE (born June 1951) is a British businesswoman, and the co-founder, with Anne-Marie Huby, of Justgiving, an online giving platform.

Kharas was born in June 1951,[1] in a Parsi family and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of a civil engineer father and a housewife mother.

[citation needed] She worked for Lawrence Graham and Linklaters & Paines, both solicitor firms specialising in corporate and financial law.

When the head of CSFB, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, left to start his own investment banking operation, MC Securities, she followed him.

[3] In 2015, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.