Taseer A. Badar is an American entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist. Badar is chairman and chief executive officer of ZT Corporate, Inc., as well as many other Altus Health and ZT Corporate entities. Badar's companies earned twelve non-consecutive Texas A&M "Aggie 100" awards between 2007 and 2022, Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 (2012), Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner (2016), and The South Asian Chamber of Commerce (SACC) Businessperson of the Year Award (2018).

Early life and education

The youngest of four siblings, Taseer Badar was born October 1, 1973, in

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, Pakistan, where he spent the first 10 months of his life before immigrating to

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, Wisconsin. His mother, Kausar, was a Nuclear Medicine Technologist Professor in Chemistry at VA Medical Center in her native home in Pakistan, and his father, Tanwir, was a Professional Engineer (PE) and Associate Professor at

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in Strand, London. In high school, he began a lawn mowing business. Later, at

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, where he would earn his Bachelor of Business Administration in

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and finance from the Mays School of Business, he ran a toner company that shipped to clients.

Career

In 1996, Badar began his

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career with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. in New York City, where he built strong relationships with his clients. During his time here, he quickly realized that he "didn't want CNBC to dictate islife," so he returned to Houston and began a retail brokerage firm and began working with physicians who needed help investing their money. Badar took this opportunity after receiving advice from his sister, Dr. Tehmina Badar, a pulmonologist; brother-in-law Dr. Shahin Shirzadi, a neurologist; and his best friend Dr. Raza Pasha, an ENT surgeon. Thus began Altus Health. In 2014, as CEO of Altus Health, Badar opened Altus House, the first in-patient

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unit in

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. In 2014, sensing an opportunity to expand outside of healthcare, Badar ventured into Florida and purchased several dealerships, including for Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Kia, and Mazda vehicles. This collection would soon become ZT Motors. In 2020, Badar began a partnership with Swapnil Agarwal of Nitya Capital.

References

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