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About COOW - Children of One World

Due to the intrinsic and built-in elements of social development being incorporated in the Project, a large number of professionals from all around the world have joined and volunteered their time, expertise and skills for the project without any monetary benefits. This includes theme designers, project planners, professional writers, financial analysts, educationists etc. It is the dedication of this entire team that has served to bring the project closer to reality.

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Organization Flow Chart

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Board of Advisors

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PERVEZ “PERRY” MOLUBHOY

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Dr. Wolfgang  Rapp (MBA, Ph.D.)

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KAMRUDDIN “KAM” SHAMS

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Mr Amirali Rupani
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Gary Goddard
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FARAH  PATEL
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Air Commodore Tariq Mahmud Ashraf (Rtd)
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Rajab Ali Bardaie (MBA, CPA, CA)
 
PERVEZ “PERRY” MOLUBHOY

The principal owner of Atlantic Hospitality, based in Dallas, TX, US, which owns several  hotels & resorts in various cities in US. Perry has also been active in the construction business for over 22 years. His company builds hotels, resorts, strip malls, and restaurant.  His company is now introducing   Papa John’s Pizza, a US based fast food franchise in Pakistan. Mr. Perry was also the owner of Atlantic Oil & Gas business from 1992 thru 2006 which was one of the largest distributors in Dallas/Fort Worth.

 His vast experience of building hotels resorts and, his desires to bring this exciting experience to Pakistan, he can be an asset to the project. He will play a key role in supervising the building and development part of this project.  He envisions a beautiful theme park, where children and their families enjoy freedom of imagination and creativeness. (Please refer to picture presentation)

 
Dr. Wolfgang  Rapp (MBA, Ph.D.)

Dr. Rapp is a native German and naturalized American citizen based in NY. He has been in senior positions with multinational banking institutions (commercial, investment, merchant banking) in Japan, Germany, UK, and US over more than twenty-five years. The banking institutions include Deutsche Bank AG, J. P.  Morgan Inc, Citibank, Inc. and PICA, Tokyo, Japan. Dr Rapp speaks several languages such as German, English, French, Spanish, Japanese. He is a member of several professional and charitable organizations. He also manages his own project advisory and venture capital firm (W. Rapp & Company, Inc.) with headquarters in New York City.

Educational Background
MBA INSEAD,  Fontainebleau,  France 1973  -  1974
Ph.D. University of Bonn,  Germany  1964  -  1972
D.A.A.D. The University of Chicago,  USA  1968  -  1969 
D.A.A.D. Waseda University, Tokyo,  Japan 1972  -  1973
NASD / NYSE Registered Representative  (Series 7,  63) 1986  ,  1996
C.F.A.   II    cand.    

C.F.A.  Institute, Charlottesville,  VA 

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KAMRUDDIN “KAM” SHAMS

The principal owner of “The Shams Group”, a well known International I.T firm servicing the medical  community nationally and internationally, with the offices in US, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. Shams group has hundreds of staff working all around the globe to improve computer information service. Mr. Shams is the author of many publications and Visiting Professor at many US Universities.
Mr Shams is keen to revolutionize the electronic & computer technology, and to enhance them for  “infotainment” purposes in interesting ways. He will have a key role in building the theme park with computer controlled toys and animated structures

 
Mr Amirali Rupani

Mr Rupani is one of the most well-known & influential businessman in Northern Texas. He is the President & CEO of the following businesses:

One World Holding, Inc (One World Bank) - For the financial needs of South Asian community in United States.
King Import Warehouse -  The largest Importer & Distributors of general merchandise in United Stated based in Dallas.
Texas Prince, Inc – Run and operator of 128,000 Sq ft business complex in DFW, USA

Mr Rupani is also Board of Director for the
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THE DALLAS ASSEMBLY

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DALLAS CITIZENS COUNCIL
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DALLAS CONVENTION VISITOR BUREAU
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DALLAS PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD

He has received a number of awards and recognitions from various reputed organizations. Also, he is the first Pakistani businessman to have served as the Chairman of the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce in 2006.

 
Gary Goddard
Gary Goddard is one of the most famous and successful Hollywood director who has directed and produced some of the best fiction and animated movies for Universal, MGM, Disney, Warner Brother and Paramount Pictures. He has designed  beautiful theme parks in US, Thailand and Japan. He is also the master designer of Spiderman, Jurassic Park and Star Trek attractions in Universal Studio. He has also created several 3-D and 4-D movies, which include the Terminator, the most successful movie of its time. His several animated movies and TV shows for children were all-time hits. His latest 3-D animated movie “UnderSea” is shown in all major aquariums and museums around the world. He has worked with famous Disney & Hollywood directors & actors such as Steven Spielberg, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Jackie Chan among others.. He is also the master designer of the great Caesar Palace in Las Vegas, the tour of Hershey’s Chocolate and the Galaxy Mega Resort of Macau. He is also the master designer of the World’s biggest Aquarium in Atlanta which is built on a ship theme. His awards and achievements are countless. His involvement in the project will bring the best of Hollywood technology and expertise to Pakistan.
 
FARAH  PATEL

By profession, Farah is early childhood psychologist and educationist.. She has specialized in Montessori Education and owned and operated Montessori school in United States. She has spent her life for the purpose of creative education.  Her expertise lies in building interesting and fun-filled educational environments for children to learn.  Currently she is a Teacher Trainer and a faculty member with the National Board of teacher trainers.

She will be working on the educational aspect of this project.  She will contribute in the designing of games and activities to have mental, physical, moral and scientific educational values for children, .   One of her ambition is to build the museum of natural history which will comprise of  life-size dinosaurs models, aquarium that will have exotic fish and other sea creatures, planetarium and space shuttle to learn astronomy etc.

 
Air Commodore Tariq Mahmud Ashraf (Rtd)
Mr Tariq, is a retired Air Commodore from Pakistan Air Force and currently working as Head of Operations of Easter Sky Jets in Dubai. Besides other academic qualifications, Mr Tariq has done Masters in Defense & Strategic Studies and Masters in International Policy and Diplomacy (in progress). Mr Tariq is acclaimed author of large number of research papers, articles and book which are published internationally.
 

He has received most prestigious awards & honours both military and non-military from three different Presidents which includes:

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Awarded Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military) by President Ghualm Ishaq Khan of Pakistan in August 1990

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Awarded Sitara-i-Basalat by President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari of Pakistan in March 1995

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Awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) by President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan in August 2002

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Awarded Andover Prize for writing the best research essay submitted by an overseas officer during the Advanced Staff Course at Bracknell in the UK

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Awarded Prize for writing the best essay in the Pakistan Air Force Annual Essay competition 2002

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Awarded a Chief of the Air Staff’s Commendation Certificate

 
Rajab Ali Bardaie (MBA, CPA, CA)

Mr Bardaie is the master-mind behind this project. His mission is to make this world a beautiful place by offering colorful dream to the children. It is his desire to that the children from U.S and Pakistan can play together in a same environment without any barriers. He has impressive records to voluntary services for the children in different parts of the World. He has also worked directly and/or indirectly with various national and international development and non profit agencies including , IUCN, AKF, United Way, IRC, and UN projects. By profession he is Certified Public Accountant from USA and Chartered Accountant from Pakistan. He has also worked as senior finance positions with A.F Ferguson in Islamabad, Price Waterhouse (PwC) in Dallas, and Hanson North America. He has done his MBA in Project Management and currently leading the project.