He has also received four honorary degrees. James Caan graduated from Harvard Business School in 2003 completing the Advanced Management program. He has been part of many controversies such as his attempt to buy a baby in the Pakistan Flood in 2010 however later he apologized, saying that there were only good intentions behind this and he had only wanted to save the baby. He was made the chairman of ‘The Big Issue Company’ in 2009. Caan is part of many other philanthropic efforts as well including his ‘James Caan Foundation’ which he founded in 2006, the Prince’s Trust, Mosaic, Marie Curie, NSPCC and Care Foundation. He was also a participant in the relief efforts in the Pakistan Flood of 2010.
James Caan worked for the British government on many initiatives including the ‘Department for International Development’ and ‘The Government’s Entrepreneur’s Forum’. Few characters connect with Caan's aging, lumbering Marlowe. Caan sold Humana International in 1999 along with a minority stake of Alexander Maan Group.Ĭaan started appearing in Dragons’ Den as a judge in the fifth season of the program and was replaced in 2012 by Hilary Devey. While James Caan fit well into the role of the somewhat long - inthe - tooth gumshoe. He co-established a business process outsources firm however sold his interests in 2002. James Caan also launched a trade magazine called ‘Recruitment International’ in the same year which he sold in 2000. This business expanded to include 147 offices in 30 countries. In 1993, he started another executive headhunting firm called Humana International with Doug Bugie. During this time he also changed his name to James Caan from Nazim Khan which also helped him as his new name was more familiar for people. It had no meeting rooms so he met with clients in cafes telling them that all the rooms were filled with other clients. He chose this prestigious place so people would get the image that the company was very big however his office was so small that the door could not be properly opened as it blocked his desk.
In 1980s, he founded his own recruitment agency by the name of ‘ Alexander Maan’ in 1985 in Pall Mall.
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