Faisal Butt

Faisal Butt is an entrepreneur and investor currently based in Mayfair, London.

He is best known for co-founding Hamilton Bradshaw Real Estate in partnership with celebrity entrepreneur James Caan.

Early Life & Education

After graduating from UCLA in 1999, Butt started his career in Los Angeles with American Management Systems (AMS), a Forbes 500 ranked IT consulting firm. In 2003 he invested and actively ran a tech start-up called Tribal Monsoon. The company was a socially conscious e-business which specialised in the sale of South Asian cultural handmade products to global businesses and consumers.

He earned an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford in 2009 as a Skoll Foundation Scholar.During his studies at the University of Oxford, he met his eventual business partner James Caan.

Butt is a Recipient of several noteworthy industry and academic awards, including “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” by Shell Livewire in 2003 and in 2008 Oxford University's Skoll Scholarship, a highly sought after scholarship awarded annually to five promising “social entrepreneurs”.

He also co-founded a South Asian chapter of the organisation TiE, the world’s largest enterprise-focused non-profit. Butt has been very active in the last 18 months, having invested in five new ventures in five different sectors. He owns stakes in a range of companies including Accouter Design, The London Management Company, Ivy Gate, Leadership and Management, and 90 North.