G. Nizamuddin

Mr. G. Nizamuddin, 66, is a graduate in Science, LLB, Fellow of the Corporate and Taxation Law Society, Member of the British Institute of Management, Fellow of the Institute of the Commercial Managers (England), Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - (England), and Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Secretaries of Pakistan. He has been Vice President and Chairman Examination Committee of the ICSP from 1988 to 2005. During holding the office of the Chairman Examination Committee made improvements in the education system and introduction of contemporary syllabus in the light of the modern requirements of the profession of the Corporate Secretaries. He organized innumerable Professional Seminars, and Workshops organized by ICSP, Employer Federation of Pakistan and other professional bodies of Pakistan.

The publication of the Journal of ICSP has been initiates by him and the first Editor in Chief of the Journal. he is also the Author of various books written on Duties of Corporate Secretaries, Secretarial Practice, Administration of Company Meetings, and Filing Requirements under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 and Rules, 1984. His various articles have also been published in the national and international Journals. Past President of Rotary Club of Karachi S.I.T.E. and awarded Certificate as one o the best President of the year 1994 - 97 for meritorious services to the community. He was Company Secretary and General Manager of Personnel and Administration of a listed lubricating oil company at Karachi and Company's Representative in the Chamber of Commerce and industry - Karachi.

Shakeel

Real  name of  Shakeel is Yusuf Kamal. He migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, along with his family in 1952. Young Yusuf had a flair for acting since his childhood. During his school days in Karachi, Yusuf regularly participated in the extra curricular activities. Soon after graduation, Yusuf made his presence felt in stage plays as well. Yusuf Kamal changed his name to Shakeel and debuted in the 1966 film, ‘Honehar.' Essentially, Shakeel is a natural actor, who applies himself earnestly as a professional duty. This actor, with a incredibly shrinking hairline, has journeyed from being a heartthrobe for teenage girls to being an Uncle for the same.

Sidra Iqbal

Sidra Iqbal is an internationally acclaimed young celebrity public speaker of Pakistan and has been a passionate debater since her school days. She held the honor of being the youngest finalist amongst 167 participants from all over the country at the Prime Minister's Shield 1999, the most coveted All-Pakistan Debating Championship.

In summer 2006, Sidra was awarded a full scholarship to attend the International Relations Summer Program at the Oxford University, UK. After completing her research program, Sidra returned to pursue her calling in television talk show production & hosting and has many hard-hitting productions to her credit. Recognizing her excellent presentation skills, creative firepower and solid teaching ability she has been recently recruited to head the Public Relations division at Ogilvy & Mather Pakistan.

In 1999, she became the first Pakistani to win the prestigious English Speaking Union's International Public Speaking Championship in London, UK. She emerged a winner amongst 58 participants from 28 different countries, an accomplishment for which, she was feted at the Buckingham Palace and awarded the winner's certificate by HRH Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh.

This achievement propelled her personal and professional growth. What followed was a globe-trotting episode of eloquently representing the Pakistani youth at a number of highly esteemed and power packed conventions and forums.

Mohammedi Miabhoy

Mohammedi Miabhoy joined Tapal Tea (Private) Ltd. in 1990 as General Manager and is presently holding the position of the Chief Operating Officer. In the year 1991, he was given the responsibility of setting up the sales channel in North which covered all oF Punjab and NWFP. He set up a network of 200 plus distributor and also was instrumental in setting up a sales office and a production facility which is capable of producing ten thousand tons per annum in a single eight hour shift.

He came back to Karachi in 2003 and is now responsible for the operations of the company. Prior to Tapal Mr Moahmmedi worked for Dow Chemicals USA, Canadian Jeans Company, makers of Wrangler brand jeans in Pakistan and Continental Biscuits, makers of LU Biscuits in Pakistan.

Mehvish Tapal

Mehvish Tapal is a director at Tapal Tea (Private) Ltd. After completing an Hons degree (specialization in Business Management) from the Imperial College London, England she joined the family business. With a humble personality and a achievement oriented approach she started off her career as a trainee with a 3 year placement in the Human Resource Department. Well supported by her determination and inherent passion for HR she developed through this period to become a Unit Manager shouldering the responsibility of Talent Management at the company. After completion of her placement in HR she has moved onto a placement in the Marketing Department where she functions as a contributing member of the team looking after brand and corporate portfolio. She continues today as key member of the Strategic Management Team at Tapal Tea.

Aftab Tapal

Mr. Aftab Tapal, owner and CEO of  Tapal Tea (Private) Ltd., a third generation tea blending and marketing entrepreneur, is a graduate from USA. He has a degree in Marketing with Associates in Applied Science. He joined his family business in 1977. His first professional exposure to the world of tea trading and blending was in 1979 when he was sent to Sri Lanka to spend time with M/s. Hebtulabhoy & Company.

Upon his return from Sri Lanka, he started to pursuer his vision of developing a professional organization capable of marketing his blends. He successfully started building brands such as Family Mixture, Danedar, Mezban, Chenak, etc. under the corporate banner of Tapal.In order to provide consistent quality which is his commitment to this consumers, he brought to his organization the discipline of ISO 9001/200. With such focused objectives and honesty in business dealings, Mr. Aftab Tapal has been able to successfully compete against the multinational companies and has captured more than 35% of the market share of the organized market sector of Pakistan and is one of the top of the Top 100 tax paying companies of Pakistan and one of the Top 5 FMCG companies of Pakistan.

His steady successes in the business world of Pakistan has won him the prestigious award of the Executive Excellence in 1999 from the Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences, the Export Excellence Award of Sri Lanka 2003 in the tea company for highest importer of any indigenous commodity, the Excellence award 2003 by 21st Century Business & Economics Club for his renowned personality in the field of marketing, and the Award of Excellence 2004 from Marketing Association of Pakistan for outstanding performance in the field of Marketing and Management, and for making a significant difference in his organization’s standing in the corporate sector.

Muhammad Mahmud

Dr. Muhammad Mahmud is a Professor and Dean at Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology (KASBIT), SMHS, Karachi. Before joining (KASBIT), Dr. Mahmud served Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi for 27 years at various responsibilities (teaching, research and administrative).

He has MBA degree from the IBA Karachi and earned Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His primary expertise is Corporate Finance.

Dr. Muhammad Mahmud has published more than 20 articles in reputed local and international publications. He was awarded third and fourth prize for participating in research essay competition by The Institute of Bankers of Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Affan Syed

Dr. Affan Syed is Assistant Professor in FAST NUCES Islamabad Campus.He is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI).He is affiliated with the ISI Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Experimentation (I-LENSE) Lab. His Areas of interest are to develop an energy-transference architecture for wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks, network time-synchronization, high-latency medium access control design, and industrial wireless-mesh networking.

Initiated to the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, USA's oldest and most selective all-discipline society honoring academic excellence. I was one of only 32 university-wide (3,000+) PhD students invited representing the computer science department at USC

Recipient of the TROSS scholarship award from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

Member IEEE and ACM

Areas of Interest

develop an energy-transference architecture for wireless sensor networks

underwater sensor networks

network time-synchronization

high-latency medium access control design

mobile and cloud computing and industrial wireless-mesh networking

Aamer Munir

Mr. Aamer Munir is Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering FAST NU Islamabad. He has worked in well known organizations. His areas of interest are Digital Signal Processing, Video/Image/Audio/Speech Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Academic Experience

Teaching

Total experience = 6 years

Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department of FAST-NU Islamabad 08/2005 – To Date

Adjunct Faculty in Telecom Department of NU-FAST Islamabad (08/2004 – 05/2005)

Taught Courses

Computer Logic Design twice

Circuit Analysis

Industry Experience

Comcept (Pvt) Ltd. Islamabad as Assistant Manager 09/2004 -07/2005

Air Weapons Complex (AWC), Rawalpindi as Consultant 08/2001 – 07/2004

And Or Logic (Pvt) Ltd. Islamabad as Manager Software Developer 11/1998 – 07/2001

Ayesha Umar Khan

Ayesha Umar Khan is a Lecturer in FAST Business School. She is a graduate of NUST Business School and did her Masters from Brunel Business School, London with merit. Her areas of interests are marketing, advertising, branding, entrepreneurship etc.

Academic Experience

Teaching

Aug 2010 - till present FAST School of Business

Jan 2009 – Dec 2009 Lahore School of Economics

Taught Courses

Entrepreneurship

Principles of Marketing

Strategic Marketing Management

Industry Experience

Mainmoon Ltd (London United Kingdom) as Marketing/ Communication Associate (Sep 2007 - Sep 2008)

Mumtaz Haider Rizvi

Mr.Mumtaz Haider Rizvi a BS-21 officer, is the Member Customs in the FBR Headquarters.

Mr. Rizvi, a senior officer of Pakistan Customs Group has previously served in various key positions serving across the country in his illustrious career spanning over 34 years.
Mr. Rizvi brings with him a rich professional and academic experience. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics and LLB from the University of Punjab.

Saima Khan

Saima Khan belongs to the pioneering team that established the School of Leadership (SoL) in July, 2002. She is the Chief Operating Officer at the School of Leadership and Project Manager of the Young Leaders’ Conference.

In her quest for a more empowered and trusting youth, she endeavors to facilitate the process of youth realizing their infinite potential and building self-confidence to discover local and global opportunities.

Saima has completed the Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counseling by CCPD, UK and is now a professional psychologist working with Guide – the counseling division of SoL. She has done post graduate courses from University of Peshawar in English Literature. She also participated in Management for Organizational Effectiveness (MOE) by SoL, giving her a sound knowledge of business and management.

A practical objectivist, Saima Khan, along with a host of other responsibilities, ensures smooth operation of SoL. With her convincing managerial style, Saima strives to develop youth leaders, who manage to then set daring, audacious goals; lead teams and implement seemingly impossible objectives.

She is known for winning hearts and conquering minds. Her diligent, empathetic and encouraging personality stimulates striving in others

Dr Gholam Mujtaba

Dr. Gholam Mujtaba, is a prominent politician of urban Sindh in Pakistan . He served as Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh, Pakistan (1992-94).He was the leader of the coalition party to the Sindh Government from 1992-94 . Dr. Mujtaba was a prominent student leader of Pakistan (1976-78). He was elected General Secretary of the Karachi University Students Union in 1976, and served as a member of the University Senate and Syndicate in 1976-78.He played a leading role in the Pakistan National Alliance Movement of 1977-78 as a student leader.

He was a close associate of the former President Pervez Musharraf during his last days in power. He had succeeded in striking a deal between the opposition and the President, but failed to dispense the covert under wrap.

Dr.Mujtaba is prominent amongst Pakistanis in the U.S. politics. He is a Member of the Chairman's Advisory Board of the Republican Party, the Republican National Committee of the United States. He is the Director of he Corona-Elmhurst Center for Economic Development where US Senator Charles Schumer and Assemblyman Jose Peralta are advisors and sponsors of the Center.

Professor Mujtaba is named to the United Who's Who Registry as an Honored Member. He is a distinguished alumni of King's College London, US Army Academy of Health Sciences, Fort Sam, Texas, the University of Karachi and Rajshahi Cadet College.

Nadeem Chawhan

Nadeem Chawhan, a senior facilitator and consultant at Navitus, has been called “The Vizier of Storytelling” due to his enigmatic, humorous and insightful style of engaging audiences. His ability to be flexible enough to relate to senior leadership teams and college going students has earned him the reputation of being one of Pakistan’s leading speakers. For almost a decade, Nadeem has been training with thousands of people on a variety of topics that ultimately come down to one simple message. How can we as people release our hidden potentials to be even better at living our lives?

Nadeem obtained his MBA from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has worked with a variety of companies prior to venturing into the field of organizational development consulting. He is certified in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and has been through various Master Classes in Business Narrative. He believes that to create change is not a simple notion and requires a methodology that deals with complexities inherent in human nature. Nadeem feels that storytelling and simplifying concepts for easy consumption and action is the only way positive change can be brought to people, organizations and societies.

As a senior facilitator, management consultant & director at Navitus, he enriches our work with his rare contributions of analytical & creative thinking. Nadeem focuses on personal & team development through areas like interpersonal skills, entrepreneurial spirit, sales, transformational leadership, story-telling, overall strategic planning & dealing effectively with the future.

In the field of training & consultancy, Nadeem has added value to a variety of clients such as Novartis Consumer Healthcare Division, OMV Pakistan, BP Pakistan, Packages Limited, Bayer CropScience, Unilever, Merck, PARCO, Procter & Gamble Pakistan & Kazakhstan, Agility Logistics, DHL, TPS, ENI, Pakistan Tobacco Company, Nestle, Roche Pakistan, Pepsi Cola International Pakistan, Shell Pakistan, Coca Cola Pakistan, 3M Pakistan, Galileo Emirates, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (Etisalat), Petronas, Hemsley Fraser, EFU life, Telenor, Mobilink, Siemens, BHP billiton, Ufone, GSK, Lakson Tobacco Company, Emirates Airlines, Engro Foods Limited, Duetsche Bank, Reckitt Benckiser Pakistan & Sri Lanka, Dubai International Financial Centre, etc. Nadeem’s passion is linking overall vision & missions to the routine operating environment.

His eagerness to learn & share knowledge is exemplary. Nadeem’s approach to disseminating valuable learnings & insights is unique and facilitates comprehension & implementation. He believes in challenging status quo to bring about positive change. Nadeem has attended a number of courses internationally including Dr Peter Senge’s, ‘The learning Organization-Building a Sustainable Future’, and Anthony Robbins’ “Unlimited Power Within? among others.

Nadeem dedicates substantial energy towards social, educational & philanthropic causes through voluntary engagements, whenever time allows. He has been asked to give a number of TV appearances apart from his own TV show, “The Whole Thing Is That“ which catered to the youth to energize society at large, using a widespread media of communication.

Nadeem is married and lives in Islamabad with his son.

Kamran Rizvi

Kamran Rizvi is a founding director, trainer, executive coach, keynote speaker and consultant at Navitus, a leading organization development (OD) consulting and training firm in the country. He brings innovative, effective and practical strategies for implementing change in a variety of organizations striving to grow, build sustainability, and improve productivity, efficiency, quality and impact.

Kamran pioneered the personal-improvement and OD movement in Pakistan in 1991, after working for fourteen years in retail and commercial banking in the Middle East and the UK.

He specializes in behavioral and organizational change and is a well-known inspirational speaker. Kamran facilitates learning programs locally and internationally for the corporate sector, non-profits and youth to enhance their managerial and leadership effectiveness, covering inspirational and visionary leadership; out-of-box thinking; change leadership; team performance; mentoring & coaching for excellence and the like.

He regularly writes leadership and management articles for Blue Chip, a leading business magazine of Pakistan. Kamran obtained his MBA degree from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, where he majored in organization development. He is a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Inc., having completed courses in Management; Executive Image; and Effective Speaking and Human Relations. He has also attended a number of courses that include “Leadership for the 21st Century”, at the J F K School of Government, Harvard University; Dr Peter Senge's “The Learning Organization – Building a Sustainable Future”; and “Strategic Leadership and Change Management” at the Wharton SMU Program, in Singapore. Kamran is an approved training resource for members of YPO (Young Presidents Organization), headquartered in the United States.

Kamran loves to devote his time facilitating leadership programs for youth locally and internationally. To this end, he serves on the board of School of Leadership (SoL) in Pakistan, best known for its flagship program, the Young Leaders’ Conference (YLC), now in its 9th year. He is also a board member of ICLS (Intercultural Communication & Leadership School) headquartered in Rome, Italy. He is invited to conduct sessions on leadership, internationally, to encourage confidence building between young community leaders from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds.

He frequently speaks at corporate annual conferences on topics of contemporary management interest and has also been invited as a key note speaker by the National Defense College, Pakistan Administrative Staff College (PASC), and a number of universities, colleges and schools.

Kamran serves major multinational and local companies, private voluntary organizations, educational institutes and public sector agencies.

He is married, has three grown up children, and is based in Pakistan.

Mansur-Ur-Rehman Khan

Mr. Mansur-Ur-Rehman Khan has been appointed as Banking Ombudsman by the President of Pakistan. Previously he was serving as Deputy Governor, State Bank of Pakistan supervising the Corporate Services & Research Clusters of the Bank comprising of Human Resources, Business Support Services, Information Systems & Technology, Finance, Payment Systems, Training & Development, Treasury Operations, Museum & Art Gallery Departments and Economic Advisor’s Office.

He has over 40 years experience in different positions in the State Bank. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor he was Executive Director (Banking) and supervised the work of Banking Policy, Banking Inspection, and Banking Supervision Departments.

His responsibilities included, inter-alia, formulation of Prudential Regulations on Know-Your Customers and other areas of Anti Money Laundering, setting up of Financial Monitoring Unit for collection, analysis and processing of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) coordination with investigation agencies, liaising with APG Sectt. and other international groups on AML, and coordination with banks on AML related issues and dealing with complaints of individuals against banks prior to creation of Office of Banking Ombudsman. Besides he served as Director on the Board of House Building Finance Corporation, Small Business Finance Corporation, Pak-Kuwait Investment Company, Member, Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP) Council, Member, Policy Board of Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Member on the Board of Pakistan Security Printing Corporation and Member on the Board of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan.

He has acted as Chairman of the Committee for developing Model Contracts for Islamic modes of financing in the country. He also served as Secretary to Banking Laws Review Commission.

His overseas assignments include Member, Technical Committee of Islamic Financial Services Board, Chairman Supervisory Review Process Working Group and Deputy Chairman of the Risk Management Working Group of the Islamic Financial Services Board, Malaysia and Member, SAARC Payments Council. He has attended various Conferences/Meetings/Courses and presented papers at different national and international levels.

Mahmood Lodhi

Mahmood Lodhi, the reigning national chess champion, holds the record of having claimed the crown on the highest number of occasions. He has been Pakistan’s highest rated International Master for a long time.

Hailing from the Punjab’s industrial town of Gujranwala, he appears on course of becoming Pakistan’s first-ever Grand Master of chess. He has been national champion for 12 years running now. He was ranked 2,475 in the world in 1993-94, which was then the highest-ever for Pakistan.

He has participated in various international tournaments over the years despite the limited support from the Chess Federation of Pakistan. He has, however, been supported overwhelmingly by the Mind Sports Association of Pakistan, having been founded just a few years ago.

He was recently appointed as Brand Ambassador of a leading oil company. Chess has been in his blood as all his four brothers were into it but he is the only one to have turned professional. They inherited chess from their father who was a colonel in Army.

Aziz Memon

Aziz Memon, a famed entrepreneur and an acclaimed social worker, was recently conferred the prestigious Pride of Performance award by President Asif Ali Zardari in a graceful ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Pakistan Day. He was decorated with the medallion in recognition of his outstanding and exceptional contribution in the field of public service for a number of years.

It’s another feather in the cap of Aziz Memon whose contribution in humanitarian and community services has been legendary. He has been the recipient of the Rotary International’s highest award ‘Service Above Self’ as well as the coveted award of Leader of the Leaders. He was the District Governor of Rotary International for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the year 2007-08. He has also been Chairman of the Cutchi Memon Markazi Jamat.

Acclaimed as a role model in the field of industry and commerce he is Chairman of the Kings Group, a conglomerate of eight companies, with the core business being manufacturing and exporting knitted garments to the European and USA markets. He is Honorary Consul General, Republic of Suriname, besides being Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Karachi Garment City, a project of Ministry of Textiles, Government of Pakistan.

He holds the honour of being the Founder President of Pakistan Japan Business Forum, President of Pakistan Italy Business Forum, Former Director Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and senior member of Pakistan German Business forum. He has been Chairman of Citizen Police Liaison Committee.