Farrah is the former co-founder and CEO of Primordial (a deep biotech
founded via Entrepreneur First), Uniformed, a national UK charity that has
raised significant funding and operates with an umbrella of ~50 partner
schools and organisations, and is currently building another start-up. Prior
to founding Primordial, Farrah was a management consultant at McKinsey &
Company, worked in data and technology governance at the United Nations, and
has software engineering experience at Goldman Sachs.
A self-taught software engineer, Farrah completed an MA(Hons) and MSc at the
University of Oxford and St Andrews with a focus on Computational Social
Science, achieving top grades and winning various awards. She is also a
World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Future Global Leaders Fellow, and an
Aspen Institute Rising Leader, owing to her work on socio-economic and
education inclusion. She is also the first person in her family to have
A-Levels or a university degree.
