Abdullah Jawaid – Business Executive Officer for Chilled Dairy – Nestle Pakistan Limited

Marketing professional with strong business strategy and project management experience. Able to drive and implement high profile projects through leading multifunctional teams. Experience in developing and driving strategic alliances. Strong sales and people management experience.

Specialties: Brand Management, Business Strategy, Project Management, Strategic Alliances, Business Process Integration for SAP, Channel and Category Sales Development, People Management, Distributor Management, Field Sales Execution.

Amir J.Khan– Self Defense Teacher

“What girls have in their favor is the ‘element of surprise’. Your perpetrator is not expecting you to fight back. But women who fight back have 86% chances of avoiding injuries. So surprise them and fight back hard,” says Amir J Khan, a KravMauga instructor who teaches self-defense to young women in Karachi.

“Security is in my blood,” says Amir who has played an integral role in keeping one of the largest malls and most frequented places of Karachi safe. Presently, he works at one of the biggest university hospitals of Karachi and makes it safe for its students, professors, doctors and patients.

Aneela Darbar– Neurosurgeon

Dr. Aneela Darbar is a neurosurgeon in Saint Louis, Missouri and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital and St. Anthony’s Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Dow University of Health Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is one of 17 doctors at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital and one of 9 at St. Anthony’s Medical Center who specialize in Neurological Surgery.

Joshinder Kaur Chaggar – Performing Artist

Joshinder Chaggar is a Performing Artist from Australia & has been working in Karachi since 2007. First noticed in the Zeb & Haniya music video, ‘Aitebar’, she staged the 1st Modern Contemporary Dance show ‘Conversations’ in 2010, at the Karachi Arts Council. She has acted in numerous theatre plays (including the highly acclaimed ‘Equus’), Jami’s upcoming feature film ‘Morqai’ and she has performed in & choreographed Sabiha Sumar’s upcoming feature film ‘Good Morning Karachi’. Her motto, inspired by the legendary Pina Bausch – “Dance, Dance or we are lost”

Maliha Husain – Executive Director –Mehergarh

I have twenty years of on-the-ground experience in design and management of social development and MicroEnterprise / MicroFinance programs in Pakistan and the United States of America. Since March 2010 I have been working on the nationwide implementation of anti-sexual harassment legislation in Pakistan. Before this I spent five years with an economic development nonprofit, stabilizing and strengthening the MicroEnterprise program, providing business education, consultation and financing to entrepreneurs in Minnesota, USA.

Masarrat Misbah – Entrepreneur, Cosmetologist and Philanthropist

Masarrat Misbah, a beauty entrepreneur, cosmetologist and social activist of international fame, is an awe inspiring successful businesswomen. Her charismatic and promising personality reflects vividly in her love for beauty and more importantly her warmth and sensitivity towards those who have accidentally lost it. Masarrat Misbah has devoted her work to promoting independence of women and encouraging the empowerment of young women.

Razia Bano & Azmina

They are strong and resilient. Our pride, they are the knockout girls! Meet Razia and Azmina, the boxers from the Pak Shaheen Boxing club in Lyari. Azmina wants to inspire more women to join the league of boxers and Razia has her eyes set on the Olympic gold medal

Sadaffe Abid– Co-Founder – Circle

Sadaffe Abid is the Founder of CIRCLE Pakistan, a Karachi based social enterprise that works to improve women’s economic rights in Pakistan. Before CIRCLE, she was one of the founding members of Kashf Foundation, one of Pakistan’s largest micro-finance institutions, rising to become its CEO. She also served as Gulf Representative of Mercy Corps and a Consultant for IFC. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she served as a teaching fellow for a course in Adaptive Leadership.

Sarah Hassan – Team Lead and Principle Software Engineer- Netsol Technologies Inc

Sarah Hassan graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences with a Masters in Computer Science. She is the Team Lead and Principal Software Engineer at Netsol Technologies Inc., one of Pakistan’s premier Assest Finance and Leasing Software Companies. Sarah is also working with CIRCLE women on a tech project to empower women with tech education and soft skills training for higher employability.

Shahzeb Mahmood – CEO and GM – Reckitt Benckiser

Experienced FMCG professional. 20+ years in a variety of Global, Local and Regional leadership roles in Asia and Africa. Uniquely rich experience across leading Businesses, Sales and Marketing functional leadership, in countries and on strategy. People and P&L Leadership…From the Boardroom to the Storefronts!

Shamama Arbab

Shamama Arbab is the director of Euro Industries, a food processing business in Peshawar, Pakistan. She works in a city where it is difficult for women just to step out of the house alone, let alone to launch and grow a business. After achieving business success, Arbab played a pivotal role in setting up the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) in Peshawar and is currently the organization’s vice president. Only a few short years ago, women in Pakistan didn’t have the right to create their own chambers of commerce or business associations at all.

Shazad Dada – CEO – Standard Chartered

Shahzad G. Dada is a businessperson who has been at the head of 5 different companies. Currently, he occupies the position of Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Ltd. He is also on the board of Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan, AIESEC (Pakistan), Developments in Literacy and British Business Centre.

In the past he was Chairman for Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Ltd., MD, Chief Country Officer & Head-Global Banking at Deutsche Bank AG (Islamabad Branch), Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Barclays Bank Pakistan, Managing Director-Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Chairman for Pakistan Banks’ Association, Vice President & Council Member at The Institute of Bankers Pakistan and Director-Governors Board at The British Overseas School.  Shahzad G. Dada received an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Shireen Naqvi – Senior Consultant – Carnelian

Shireen Naqvi is a senior consultant & facilitator at Navitus. Her focus areas include personal development & visionary leadership. She excels in the field of emotional intelligence & brings to Pakistan a fresh & challenging business paradigm that builds endurance in organizations. She holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Karachi, where she majored in Management Information Systems.

– Senior Consultant – Carnelian

Shireen Naqvi is a senior consultant & facilitator at Navitus. Her focus areas include personal development & visionary leadership. She excels in the field of emotional intelligence & brings to Pakistan a fresh & challenging business paradigm that builds endurance in organizations. She holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Karachi, where she majored in Management Information Systems.

The Khawatoons

The Khawatoons is Pakistan’s first all-girls comedy troupe, led and trained by comedienne Faiza Saleem.