Using the Family Holding Company to invest in Education
Asked their biggest headache, most next-generation owners in the room wrote 'my father'. Khalid Muhmood is building so his children never will.
Khalid Muhmood
Founder of Dragonfly Education Group; co-founder of Apollo English and British University Vietnam
On the show
The Business Family Diagnostic · Purpose
Why trade anything in?
Khalid and Arabella decided to hold their education business before their children were old enough to have a say. Has your family talked together about what it wants to be true in twenty years?
“Most adult family members could describe our long-term goals in similar words.”
Biography
Khalid is from the UK and through the family business holding company Dragonfly Education Group, is an operational investor in education. He has been active in the business of education since 1994 when he and his wife, Arabella Peters, co-founded Apollo English and then the British University Vietnam. Since then they have invested in a number of businesses all focused on education.
Khalid and Arabella see themselves as the founding generation of their family enterprise and intend to never sell their Dragonfly Education hold co. They’re actively involving their young children in business conversations and laying the foundation for generational wealth, legacy and impact.
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