Noor-ul-Huda Ashraf - Principal Consultant

Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Managers and Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants with over 30 years of professional experience.

During his professional career Noor-ul-Huda gained extensive experience in auditing, finance, taxation, corporate affairs and financial and systems consultancy. However, his major expertise is in identification and evaluation of business opportunities, project development, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, cost control, analysis and evaluation of financial statements and designing and implementation of systems.

Noor-ul-Huda has gained in-depth exposure to various industries during his extensive career.  He has worked in Big 4 Accounting Firms, Banks and Financial Institutions, Educational Institutions, Power Projects, Software Houses and Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals. While working on projects he also received exposure to FMCG, Hotels, Airlines, Sugar, Textile, Construction, Mixed Housing / Commercial Developments.

He has hands-on & in-depth knowledge of the information technology industry and has been involved in system reengineering and automation for banks, manufacturing and trading organizations with complex structures. 

SPECIALTIES

• New business initiatives & Feasibility Studies
• Strategic & Operational Planning and Monitoring
• Business Reorganization, Change Management
• Processes and Systems Development
• Financial Planning and Management
• Risk Assessment & Internal Controls Information Systems Design & Implementation 

Usman is a seasoned Chartered Accountant by profession and a humanitarian & environmentalist by heart. He is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and Pakistan Institute of Public Finance & Accounts. 

He has been exploring areas of Risk Management, Tax Planning, Financial Simulation, Cost Optimization and Process Automation since 2006. He started his professional career with Ernst & Young and served in Audit and Assurance Business Services department. During his stay with E&Y, he performed various assurance and audit assignments including audits of Atlas group, Baluchistan Wheels, PICIC Insurance, Associated Consulting Engineering, Gerry’s Softlogic and Gulf Business Machines. In later part of his professional career, he served one of the biggest names of Pharma, Chemical and Trading sectors of Pakistan in different capacities. He successfully carried out various assurance, financial consulting and accountancy assignments of his customers based in USA, Germany, Norway and Morocco. 

During his professional career, he developed keen interest in Financial Consulting, BPO, ERP Implementation and Artificial Intelligence

SPECIALTIES

• Financial Modelling and Simulation 
• Business Process Outsourcing 
• Process Development and Automation 
• Tax & Regulatory Planning & Management 
• Business Efficiency & Cost Optimization 
• Risk Management & Internal Controls   

An Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants, Pursuing Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), having diverse experience of 10 years.

Having professional experience from Big4 with exposure in Audit, Assurance, Accounting Outsourcing and ERP Consultancy Services across variant industries; Providing a blend of practical experience of compliances with the applicable laws and regulations. A keen observer in Business Feasibility analyses and Financial Planning !

FORTES

• Financial Planning
• Compliances testing
• Accounting and Financial Reporting
• ERP Implementations
• Process Improvements and Risk Advisory  

• Bsc. Management Science from LUMS
• Experience working for various domestic & international employers across the Fintech (Systems Ltd, Payoneer), Consulting & FMCG industries (Unilever, Packages)
• Leading Business Strategy, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships in Fintech industry 
• Headed business strategy and development, product development, project management, and worked towards investment from institutional investors (IFC – World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
• Data analytics for data based strategic decision making
• Spearheading key technical and business partnerships with major commercial and microfinance banks and managing relations with State Bank of Pakistan

CORE SPECIALTIES

• Digital Financial Solutions
• Strategic Decision Making
• Product Development
• Process Re-engineering
• Ecosystem Partnerships for Growth
• Digital Marketing   

Information Technology professional with diverse experience of product design, development, deployment and post-live support of critical business applications in financial, real time bidding and medical domains, with over 30 years of professional experience.

During his professional career gained extensive experience in investigative analysis of application, business analysis and identification of best possible solution based on environment and organizational culture..

Experienced PMP with background of conventional business application and technology products including Leasing, ERP, Digital Marketing and network monitoring, active and passive user behavior analytics in ecommerce domain.

SPECIALTIES

• Business analysis
• Application architecture design and development
• Processes Development
• IT infrastructure and application security
• ISO27001 implementation
• PMP trainer  

Information Technology professional with progressively responsible management positions’ career spanning over more than 20 years, predominantly as Head of IT.

With formal education of MCS as well as MBA coupled with contemporary technical and management trainings, Kanwal Saqlain has helped companies assess and design technological propositions to increase business agility and manage complexities. His major expertise is in IT project management, process evaluation and automation, ERP implementation, MIS, bespoke solutions and business analytics. Also possesses extensive hands-on expertise of IT infrastructure, state-of-the-art technologies and tier-1 solution deployments.

Kanwal Saqlain has gained in-depth exposure to various industries during his career. The industries and sectors he has worked in encompass pharmaceuticals, textiles, trading, education and software companies.

SPECIALTIES

• IT Infrastructure & Emerging Technologies
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) & MIS
• Process & Industrial Automation, IoT
• Business Analytics & Dashboards
• IT Security & Risk Management
• Cloud Native Solutions
• Digitalization & Governance
• IT Strategy, Systems & Procedures 

• Basic degree in Pharmacy from university of Karachi
• 21 years of Marketing and Sales experience in different capacities in Multinational & National Pharmaceutical companies
• Worked in Domestic and International market
• Job descriptions grossly included formulating strategies & achieving results through people in line with the desired corporate objectives.

CORE SPECIALTIES

• Process & System Development
• Strategic & Operational Planning & Monitoring
• Financial Planning & Monitoring
• Team Building
• Brand Building  

Dr. Ahmad is a Chemical Engineer and holds a PhD degree. He has been working with chemical and pharmaceutical plants ranging from Fertilizer to Basic manufacturing of pharmaceutical Chemicals (APIs). He has worked with Glaxo (Basic Chemicals) for four years. He acts as the Sector Specialist for URS, Accreditation Body of UK, for ISO 9001 Certifications in Pakistan and conduct audits of the major chemical plants in Pakistan for the last 15 years.

He has special interest in developing organizations, HR and new businesses. He is widely traveled and has enriched his experience in the field of manufacturing, management, finance, sales& marketing of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. He has attended a large number of exhibitions and conferences on Pharma, chemicals and healthcare in various countries.

SPECIALTIES

• Production Management 
• New products development and R&D 
• CMO development and management
• Regulatory affairs management 
• Supply chain & logistics 

An overall diversified experience of 22 years in Technical operations in various Pharmaceutical industries of Pakistan, having expertise in designing, development, operational excellence in all dosage forms of pharma, nutraceutical, herbal and cosmeceutical divisions. Actively involved in various greenfield & brownfield processes from design to execution.

Also carried out various technology transfer procedures to improve quality and profitability at corporate level.

SPECIALTIES

• Production Management 
• New products development and R&D 
• CMO development and management
• Regulatory affairs management 
• Supply chain & logistics 

He has contributed at International Business in leadership roles for different national and multinationals corporates. He is skilled in new business launches and cross - cultural management. Kamil has a holistic experience in business development, regulatory affairs, financial management, marketing and supply chain management.

He has led international business at different regions. 

Kamil got an extensive exposure of 20 years in general management, legal affairs, regulatory affairs, financial management, supply chain management, marketing & sales and new business development. He has an in depth understanding of regulatory authorities, trade bodies and banking sector. 

He has done team recruitment and successfully developed themin their respective markets and ensured cross cultural competence that improved both workplace culture and productivity.

Kamil is a marketing graduate by qualification. 

SPECIALTIES

• New business development internationally 
• Strategic business partners selection 
• Business restructuring on different business models
• Regulatory affairs management 
• Legal affairs management 
• Hiring & recruitment at all management levels
• Supply chain & international logistics