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Ashar Ahmed was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. Mr. Ahmed graduated from Purdue University in December 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. After graduation, he worked with KPMG Peat Marwick and subsequently with PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") as a Certified Public Accountant. He left PwC in 2004, as an experienced manager in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services Division. In 2007, Mr. Ahmed graduated from University of California Hastings College of Law, in San Francisco. There he was an article editor for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review and was the President of Hastings South Asian Law Student Association in 2005. While attending law school, Mr. Ahmed externed for Honorable John T. Noonan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, for Honorable John Munter of San Francisco Superior Court and for the California Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. In 2006, Mr. Ahmed clerked at Coughlin Stoia's San Francisco office. At Hastings, Mr. Ahmed won an award for his moot court argument and brief, and was awarded the CALI Award of Excellence for a Class Action Seminar paper on securities litigation. | 