</p> <h3>Profiles of Board of Directors</h3> <p>
Mr. Tariq Moinuddin Khan has over 30 years of experience. He is on the Board of OBS Healthcare Private Limited, OBS Pharma Private Limited, Aklima CRO Private Limited, Aitkenstuart Pakistan Private Limited and Aspin Pharma Private Limited. In addition, he is the Honorary Consul General of Netherlands in Karachi, Secretary General of World Federation of Consuls, Brussels for Pakistan Chapter, Former President of Pakistan Sri Lanka Business Forum to promote trade between the two countries and Member of ASPEN Institute (USA) Partners for New Beginning Program (PNB) which was the initiative of President Obama with entrepreneurs of the Muslim World to create 500,000 jobs.
He started his professional career with the largest regional audit firm, Richter Usher and Vineberg Chartered Accountants, Montreal, Canada. He joined the Jewish General Hospital (McGill University) as its Financial Controller in 1987. This followed by a move to KSA to join the Mawarid Trading Company (owned by the Saudi Royal Family) as Group Chief Financial Officer in 1993. He joined Organon (now part of Merck & Co. Inc. USA) in 1999. Later, he migrated to Pakistan as Managing Director, Organon. Subsequently, responsibilities for KSA were also handed to him where he became MD for Pakistan & KSA.
He is a graduate of the Concordia University, Montreal Canada and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy (GDPA) from McGill University. He is also a Certified Management Accountant from Ontario Canada and Certified Public Accountant from California, USA
Mr. Naved Abid Khan brings along with him over 30 years of work experience with 27 years of broad based banking experience. He is currently serving as Chairman & Chief Executive of Sharmeen Khan Memorial Foundation named after his late wife and as Board Member of Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works, Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim, Dubai Islamic Bank, Galiyat Development Authority, KPK, NRSP Microfinance Bank Limited, Bahria Foundation and Gas & Oil Company Pakistan.
During his career, he has served as the President & Chief Executive Officer of Faysal Bank Limited, ABN Amro Bank Pakistan Limited, President of Overseas Investors Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of Pakistan Banks Association, Faysal Asset Management Limited, Academic Board of Institute of Bankers Pakistan, President of Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan, Vice President of Institute of Bankers Pakistan and Member of the Institute of Bankers’ Council. He also served at senior key positions in Bank of America, Pakistan.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Indiana University, USA and a Master of Business Administration degree from Butler University, USA.
Mr. Zafar Iqbal Sobani brings with him over 40 years’ of experience of working in the manufacturing, power sector and audit profession in Pakistan and in the Middle East. Currently he is engaged in the finance, business and power sector consultancy and he is also a business entrepreneur. He is serving as a Board Member of Privatization Commission since January 2014 and has actively contributed in the Privatization transactions carried during this period which included spade work on PSE and Energy sector. In addition, he is on the Board of TRG (Pakistan) Limited, Primus Leasing Limited – subsidiary of Pak Brunei Investment Company Limited, IT Minds – a subsidiary of Central Depository Company and Hardon Solar – Developer of Solar solutions. He is also a Chairman of ICAP Audit Committee.
During his career, he worked for two years with House of Habib between 2015 and 2013 in the areas of New Project Development and Real Estate Management. He has rich exposure to the power sector industry in the country along with strong relationship with all the major stake holders. His experience includes leading the power sector of the Country as CEO of Hubco Pakistan with three IPP based power project between 2013 and 2011 and CEO of Liberty Power Tech 200 MW IPP based power project between 2011 and 2008. Majority of his career was spent with Century Paper & Board, a part of Lakson Group, between 2008 and 1990 in the areas of finance, arranging project funding for large size projects treasury, costing and supply chain. In addition was responsible for overall coordination of the Finance Department of the group. He also worked with Pakistan Oxygen Limited between 1990 and 1985 in the core finance functions. He has been the President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and served actively in council and regional committee in various capacities. He also remained Chairman of Quality Control Board for nine years and was entrusted with the objective of overseeing the quality of audit assurance work in Pakistan. He also remained Member of the managing committees of Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was the Sponsor Director of Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance in year 2005 and 2004 and has Certification as a trainer of Corporate Governance by IFC.
He obtained qualification of Chartered Accountancy and Cost & Management Accountancy in the early eighties from Pakistan. He worked with A.F. Ferguson (PWC) in Pakistan and Ernst and Young, Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Kamran Nishat holds 34 years of professional experience and is the Chief Executive Officer of Muller & Phipps Pakistan (Private) Limited, M&P Express Logistics (Private) Limited, Tech Sirat (Private) Limited, Veribest Brands Pakistan (Private) Limited, Tech Sirat Technologies (Private) Limited, Logex (Private) Limited and OCS Road & Rail Cargo (Private) Limited. He is also on the Board of ABL Asset Management Company Limited, Cyan Limited and Briogene (Private) Limited.
He has been the Member of Accounting and Auditing Standards Committee (South) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP), Information Technology Committee (South) of the ICAP, Management Association of Pakistan and President of American Business Counsel. He also served as Senior Manager at Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates (Private) Limited, Group Financial Controller at MIMA Group, General Manager Corporate Affairs at Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited, Deputy Managing Director at Central Cotton Mills Limited and Manager Finance at Al-Ghazi Tractors.
He is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow member of ICAP.
Mr. Mahmud Yar Hiraj has over 15 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, principal investing, private equity and asset management. He has worked at leading global investment banks and financial institutions in US, UK and Canada. He is currently serving as a Board Member of Triconboston Consulting Corporation.
He started his career with Salomon Smith Barney in New York before moving to London with Citigroup’s Financial Sponsors Group, where he was covering leading Private Equity firms. Prior to moving back to Pakistan in 2012 to join Abu Dhabi Group, he spent five years with JP Morgan and Scotia Capital. During this period, he advised various US, Canadian and other international Fortune 500 Companies and sponsors on mergers and acquisitions, and capital market fund raising opportunities.
He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from McGill University and a MBA from Yale School of Management.
Ms. Nusrat Munshi has over 26 years of professional experience. She is the Managing Director of AGP Limited and on the Board of OBS Pakistan (Private) Limited, OBS Healthcare (Private) Limited, and Aspin Pharma (Private) Limited. She joined AGP Limited in June 2007 and worked as Director of Finance, Information Systems and HR prior to her elevation as the Managing Director in 2009. She successfully steered the Company during the critical process of change in ownership in 2014 after which the Company has emerged much stronger with long term horizon.
She started her career with the Banking Industry and has experience of over a decade in Treasury, Corporate and Credit. She has also worked with HSBC Canada and was the Regional Corporate Head at HSBC, Pakistan before joining AGP Limited.
She holds a BBA (Hons) and MBA from the Institute of Business Administration and a second MBA from the Queens University, Canada
Mr. Muhammad Kamran Mirza brings with him over 11 years of experience of Financial Markets focused primarily on Sell-side and Buy-side Investment Advisory. Prior to joining OBS, he was part of JS Bank Limited as Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking Group where he advised corporates on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity capital market transactions with a focus on pharmaceutical, microfinance, logistics, financial services and industrials sectors.
He joined JS Bank in 2007 as an analyst and due to his entrepreneurial mindset and ability to steer the franchise to deliver strong performance through the cycles, he rose to a position of Head of Investment Banking in a very short span of time. Prior to joining JS Bank, he had a short stint with a leading telecom company as Projects Management Executive.
He is a MBA graduate from Institute of Business Management (CBM) and also holds an undergraduate degree in commerce with a gold medal.