Ali Shirazi

PSTD President; CEO, Atlas Battery

Ali H. Shirazi graduated from Yale University, the U.S.A. in 2000 and thereafter
completed his Masters in Law from Bristol University, the U.K. in 2005. During this
period, He worked for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in New York and American Honda
in Torrance, California. He is Group Director Financial Service and President / CEO of
Atlas Battery Limited.

Samar Hayat

CEO, Tapal Tea

Samar Hayat is the Chief Executive Officer of Tapal Tea (Pvt.) Ltd. and is leading Pakistan’s largest Tea company for consecutive years of extraordinary growth despite
Pakistan’s tough macro environment. Prior to joining Tapal, Mr. Samar has spent 20
years with Procter & Gamble based in Saudi, Switzerland & Dubai leading giant global
brands such as Pampers, Gillette, Head & Shoulders & Pantene for Middle East,
Africa, India, Pakistan region.

Umer Saeed Khan

Founder and Lead Trainer, Activ8

Umer Khan is the founder of Activ8 Training and Games, and is currently serving as its Lead Trainer. He has over 15 years of highly diverse national and international consulting and training experience with leading organizations in Pakistan Dubai Oman. He has trained and consulted with companies such as NSN, Telenor, Warid, Ufone, Mobilink, Zong, PTCL, Microsoft, GE, PTC, Shell, Total, Nestle, Engro, Eli Lilly, PSO, Pepsi Co, Metro, PEL, P&G, DuPont, ORIX leasing, HKB, Bank Of Punjab, Packages etc. Umer is an MBA from Virginia Tech. and an engineer from GIKI

Kashif Manzoor

SVP – Engr, Service Delivery Head North America and Europe, Systems Limited

Kashif Manzoor has over the last 2.5 decades, engaged in the whole gamut of IT Services business. He has worked in more than 16 countries around the world and was previously employed at Schlumberger, Techlogix, Oracle, and Confiz. He holds a BS from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute and did his MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Saquib Ahmad

Country Managing Director, SAP Pakistan

Saquib is the Managing Director for SAP in Pakistan. SAP is the market leader in
enterprise application software. Since joining SAP in 2017, Saquib has significantly expanded SAP’s footprint in Pakistan, exceeding growth targets and hiring local talent to enable the digital transformation of customers in both the public and private sectors.

Ali Ahmad Khan

COO, Beaconhouse

Ali Ahmad Khan is the Chief Operating Officer at Beaconhouse. He manages the
Operations and Business Development of Beaconhouse schools across Pakistan.

Ali has over 24 years of experience spanning sales, marketing, service, product development and project management in the technology sector. He was part of the start-up team of two telecoms in Pakistan and launched a third in Africa as the project head. He was responsible for the turn-around of a technology company’s enterprise business; by increasing customer centricity, launching new products, and developing new partnerships.

Faisal Qamar

Co-Founder & CEO, Decibel

Mr. Faisal Qamar, serving as the CEO of Decibel was also the Co-Founder of the
company. The whole business model was his vision and excellence of his implementation & leadership over the previous 12 years. He has expertise in developing, designing, implementing innovative business, and strategizing for performance enhancement in the fields of HR & Finance. He has been helping companies to overcome critical barriers to success, as a profession.

Ayal Abbas

President & CEO, Sofcom

Ayal Abbas is an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston, an MBA and a Science graduate. Having started his career from Pfizer laboratories, he gained expertise in product management, sales and distribution. Thereafter he was a part of many entrepreneurial ventures before establishing SOFCOM in 1992 as an information solution providing company and has played a key leadership role in this organization for the past 22 years, expanding SOFCOM from a small Pakistani technology firm to a global player in the corporate world.

Zainab Khan

CEO & Lead Consultant, Seido HR

Zainab Khan has been associated with HR for 25 years. Having been in varied leadership roles, she brings this practical experience into her current consulting work. Her expertise includes both human and organizational development. Her purpose-driven Organizational Development work is based in context specific strategies to develop, align and transform, teams, culture and systems.

Fathema Zuberi

HR Director, Unilever Pakistan

Fathema worked at ICI Pakistan Limited before joining Unilever. She joined as a
Management Trainee and has held multiple roles in both the HR and Commercial functions during her 24 years tenure. She holds an MBA degree from the Institute of Business Administration and is a Board Member at the Pakistan Society of Human Resource Management. Currently she is leading Unilever Pakistan as its HR Director.

Pouruchisty Sidhwa

CHRO, Telenor Microfinance Bank

Pouruchisty Sidhwa is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Telenor Microfinance Bank Limited. She is an experienced professional with over 30 years of experience in diversified industries such as banking, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, FMCG, retail, and textile. In the financial sector, she has experience working in areas such as Credit, Risk, Finance, and Human Resources

Farrukh Rasheed

GM HR & Admin, ICI Pakistan

Farrukh Rasheed is the General Manager HR & Administration at ICI Pakistan since April 2022. Over his 20-year career, he has held diverse leadership roles across the HR function. Previously, Farrukh held the position of Vice President HR & Digitalisation at the Hub Power Company Limited. Prior to that, he served in HR and Six Sigma-related leadership roles at United Energy Pakistan, Engro Corporation, Engro Fertiliser, Engro Eximp and Jazz. He holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Farrukh has also completed his Executive Education from INSEAD.

Sadia Irfan

Director HR, Fatima Group

Sadia Irfan, Director Human Resources brings with her extensive experience from MNCs and HR consultancies, with work experience spanning over 25 years in human resources management and leadership, including 18 years with leading MNCs like PepsiCo, Nestle & Electrolux.

Sarah Hasan

Senior HR Director, Pepsico

Sarah began her career with Phillip Morris International in 2007 and has a diverse professional background spanning across Business Planning, Supply Chain, Operations and People & Culture. She has successfully worked with diverse and multi-cultural organizations across Hong Kong, Macau and South Asia and has been instrumental in driving transformation forward across multiple markets. She is currently driving People & Culture strategy for Pepsico Pakistan. Further strengthening diversity, employee engagement & well-being and future fit agile polices and people practices.

Hina Sarwat

HR Director, CCL Pharma

Human Resources professional and leadership coach with 22 years of experience in Pakistan and Middle East. Holds MBA degree majoring in Human Resources. Has leadership coaching certification from Harvard Business School. Worked for Fortune 500 and highly matrixed organizations in several industries including Technology, Oil & Gas, Education, Insurance, Engineering and Pharmaceutical.

Adeel Anwar

HR Head, Fatima Group

Adeel Anwar has 22 years of Corporate HR & Organizational development experience. Presently he is the Head of Human Resources for New Businesses in Fatima Group based in Lahore. Previously he has served in senior HR leadership roles in Coca-Cola Icecek, Ernst & Young Bahrain, Warid Telecom, Metro Cash and Carry Indonesia, Metro Cash & Carry Pakistan, NetSol Technologies Inc., and Safestore PLC UK.

Alizeh Valjee

Co-founder & COO of Saaya Health

Emotional-wellbeing company operating in 5 countries, covering 140,000+ employees. They offer an employee assistance program to some of the leading organizations such as HBL, Engro Corporation, P&G, Foodpanda, as well as Oil & Gas companies in the Middle East.

She has co-founded NGOs, CareForHealth and Taskeen, is a practicing therapist, and a member of the Pakistan Mental Health Coalition.

Akchah Taj

Psychologist, Healthwire & Chughtai Center

Akchah Taj is a prominent clinical psychologist, psychopathologist and psychotherapist in Pakistan. She has studied in the University Paris Descartes, France. Currently she runs a clinical practice at Chughtai Medical Centre DHA and serves as Corporate Consultant psychologist for Healthwire. Besides this, Akchah is a French and psychology instructor in different institutions including, ces-Lums, Fcc&U and TNS-DHA.

Hasan Adnan Ahmed

Field Sales Director, CCI Pakistan

With over twenty years of global experience in HR and an in-depth understanding of international business and emerging markets. Hasan joined CCI Pakistan in May 2016 as Director Human Resources and is now serving as Field Sales Director. He has a proven track record of building teams and start-ups, and transforming company culture. Earlier, Hasan has also spent 16 years with British American Tobacco where he started his career as a Global Management Trainee after completing his MBA from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands.

Hiba Akhtar

Supply Chain Operations Director, Pepsico

Hiba Akhtar is the Supply Chain Operations Director, of Beverages Pakistan and Afghanistan at PepsiCo. Prior to this she was serving British American Tobacco (BAT) as the Head of Manufacturing. Hiba is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the FMCG industry across various functions such as process engineering, production, services engineering, EHS, safety, world class manufacturing and IWS.

Mudasar Hussain Mian

VP Sales & Distribution, Telenor

Mudasar Hussain is currently serving as the Vice President of Sales and Distribution at Telenor. Prior to this he was working for Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation. He is a Oklahoma State University graduate and has completed management and leadership programs from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the London Business School (LBS).

Fatima Asad-Said

(CEO & Board Member, Abacus Consulting)

Fatima is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer at Abacus Consulting. With over 24 years in professional experience, Fatima embodies thought leadership and delivering innovative solutions in Corporate Governance, Digital Transformation, Strategic Change, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Technology Solutions, and project leadership across multiple sectors and industries. A MBA graduate from LUMS, she started her career with Coopers & Lybrand International and then PricewaterhouseCoopers.