Leadership

Mr. Shahal Khan is a strategic investor in multiple sectors and is considered to a global economic leader in alternative global finance and New Economic theory per Digital Assets. He is Founder of the Khan Insitute of Economics at The American University in D.C. He is an entrepreneur whose investments globally as a socially aware investor (invest for good impact) span over 30 years, with investments encompassing Telecoms, Real Estate, Energy, Natural Resources, Technology (specific emphasis on Internet-related communications technologies l, semiconductors and advanced cyber security solutions) as well as various agricultural food security sectors. He has been directly responsible for syndication of over $25b USD in equity for projects as a principal through Burkhan.

He is the Founder of Burkhan World, a holding company with diversified investments focusing on reinvesting gains from portfolio investments into companies that have the potential so accelerate sustainability globally. His focus has been to create to create a global economic system that focuses on equity of the individual and not debt. His patent pending design for Tempus Network is a culmination of that thought process.

Shahal is currently the Chairman and CEO of Burtech, a NASDAQ listed investment company that merged with Blaize for $1.2 billion in 2025. Shahal is also a shareholder of Fairchild Gold, a TSX listed Gold exploration company, Enercap, a innovative Graphene based battery company, Tachyon9 a developer of HPC hyperscalers and other innovative companies.

Shahal is also the Chairman and Founder of Trinity Hospitality Holdings based out of Florida, which is focused on investing in Iconic hotel properties globally, Trinity is developing over two billion dollars in a pipeline of iconic hospitality properties. In conductive and rare earth metals.

His family background can be traced back to the Mughal Era in the South Asian region. Although involved in businesses primarily in the US, Europe and the Middle East, Shahal is proud of his heritage and the contribution of his family for many generations in India and Pakistan and has drawn on this family history to maintain links in the region and also to create sustainable investment opportunities which will allow economic development, growth and Education.