Executive in Residence and Faculty
Academic Area:
Teaching / Research Interests
Mailing Information
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive
Durham, NC 27708
Bio
Dr. Salman Azhar has invested in over 200 startups and generated a positive overall return, with just his first 12 exits yielding a profit. He specializes in buying shares of pre-IPO unicorns from early investors.
Dr. Azhar is a General Partner of Azimuth Opportunity Fund and Executive in Residence at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He has previously served Duke as the Managing Director and Founding Member of Duke Capital Partners, as well as a faculty member in the Computer Science Department. He is a Charter Life Member of OPEN Global and an advisor to several funds, including Quartus, Moment, and Regiment. His former business partners and clients include Toyota, Sony, SAP, and numerous other prominent companies.
Dr. Azhar earned his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Duke as a James B. Duke Fellow (Duke’s most prestigious graduate award) and a BS in Math and Physics from Wake Forest University as a Carswell Scholar (Wake Forest’s highest undergraduate scholarship).