Ayesha Aziz
Managing Director
Ms. Aziz brings with her over 17 years of experience in Project Finance, Arrangement of Private Equity, Structuring and Placement of debt and equity, Syndicated loans, and Strategic Advisory businesses. She helped position Pak Oman Investment Company as a leading Investment banking outfit when it was first set up in 2001 and subsequently helped in setting up various subsidiaries strategic initiatives including an asset management company, a microfinance bank and an off shore branch office before moving to Pak Brunei. Prior to that she spent ten years with ANZ Grindlays bank.

She is an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration and a CFA Charterholder.

Abdul Jaleel Shaikh
Group Head Operations
Mr. Shaikh brings with him more than thirty years of diversified experience in the fields of Project Management, Corporate Finance, Credit Administration, Human Resources, General Administration and Civil Engineering. Mr. Shaikh worked for about 10 years in Saudi Arabia largely in the field of engineering, on several projects of strategic importance. His career with Saudi Pak Industrial & Agricultural Investment Company (Pvt) Limited (SAPICO) at Islamabad spanned over 20 years. Mr. Shaikh was represented on all business and strategic decision making committees of the Company & represented SAPICO on boards of various companies.

Karim Hatim
Group Head – Advisory & Strategic Investment Group
Mr. Karim Hatim has over fifteen (15) years of diversified experience in Investment Banking, Business Development, Finance, Corporate Finance and Advisory, Treasury, Capital Market Operations and Credit Appraisal, Audit, and tax advisory.

Before Pak Brunei, he was working at Pak Kuwait Investment Company Limited as Senior Vice President & Head Investment Banking, where he was instrumental in Pak Kuwait’s growth and progress. As Head of Investment Banking, he was responsible for reviving the division and increasing fee based income. He was also instrumental in setting up Pak Kuwait’s subsidiary registered as Non Bank Finance Company and a Brokerage House. He has worked on key assignments which include buy side Advisory of Pakistan Steel Mills and Pakistan Petroleum, balance sheet restructuring and Standard Feasibility Evaluation System for HBFC, term finance certificates and equity listing of Paramount Leasing to name a few.

Additionally, he has held key appointments at various renowned institutions Including Ford Rhodes, Standard Chartered Mercantile Leasing Limited, Paramount Leasing Limited and Chief Operating Officer at NBP Capital Limited.

Abdul Hafeez
CFO & Company Secretary
Mr. Hafeez is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He holds 11 years of work experience in financial management including management of corporate affairs, taxation and audit. He has been affiliated with Pak Brunei since inception.

Mr. Hafeez started his career at Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder, member firm of Ernst & Young, where his expertise was audit and tax across financial services industry.  He spent over 4 years at the accountancy firm, where apart from foreign banks he also supervised the audit of State Bank of Pakistan.

Mr. Hafeez contributed 2 years in the finance division at Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan where his major assignment was restructuring the Company’s Balance Sheet which resulted in equity injection of PKR 5.0 billion by the Govt. of Pakistan . Prior to joining Pak Brunei, he was associated with Pak Oman Group for 3 years in senior management positions in finance and compliance. He was also one of the key persons responsible for the setup of Pak Oman Microfinance Bank. Post setup, Mr. Hafeez was responsible for finance as well as treasury department.

Tariq Ahsan
Head, Treasury Division
Mr. Ahsan  is heading the Treasury Group at Pak Brunei Investment Company. He is a known name in the Treasury Fraternity in Pakistan and has credit of 19 years of working experience  in both Commercial Banks and financial Institutions. Prior to joining Pak Brunei investment Company, Mr.Ahsan has served as the Head of Treasury at PICIC Commercial Bank for 9 years.

Mr.Ahsan has a Master Degree in Business Administration and besides PICIC Commercial Bank his work experience encompasses organization like Mashreq Bank, National Development Finance Corporation and National Development Leasing Corporation.

Syed Misbah Maqbool
Head of Equities
Mr Maqbool Joined Pak Brunei Investment Company from National Bank of Pakistan where he was Vice President and Equity Investment Head-Investment Banking Division.

Mr. Maqbool holds an MBA in Finance from the Institute of Business Administration, and is currently a candidate For the CFA Level III Examination in 2008.

Ahmed Ateeq
Head MM, Fixed Income Investments & Distributions
Previously, he was associated with Pak Oman Investment Company as the Head, Corporate Treasury desk where his scope of work included developing distribution network for Fixed Income Instruments, Resource mobilization, and the market making of GOP Securities.

He joined Pak Oman Asset Management Company (POAMC) post his experience at Pak Oman, acting as one of the prime members of the founding team of the Asset Management Company. His broad responsibilities included structuring, product development, marketing and portfolio management. At POAMC, he successfully launched the company’s first closed-end fixed income fund of its kind in Pakistan Capital markets of which the IPO and Pre-IPO were oversubscribed. It was the first co-branded fund which fetched PKR 2.5 billion in a short time span of only fifteen days of its Pre-IPO.

Mr. Ateeq, as an Investment Advisor, has successfully managed discretionary portfolio of over PKR 4 billion for different AAA and AA+ rated corporate institutions, Pension Funds, and other institutions.

Mr. Ateeq is an MBA and prior to joining Pak Oman Group he had worked with Jahangir Siddiqui & Company and ABN Amro Bank Pakistan.

Faiza Kapdia
Head, Legal and Corporate Affairs
“Ms. Faiza Kapadia is a lawyer by profession and has over 9 years experience in the legal field.

Ms. Kapadia commenced her career at Liaquat Merchant Associates, a Corporate Law Firm In 2001 she moved as In-house Legal Counsel for Engro

Chemical Pakistan Limited and its subsidiaries , Engro Asahi Polymer and Chemical Limited, Engro Vopak Terminal Limited and Engro Foods Limited.

Ms. Kapadia has also served as Internal Legal Consultant for Citibank N.A’s Corporate business

Sultan Abid
Head of Compliance
Mr. Sultan Abid holds more than 11 years experience of working in core banking departments of SBP where he earned diversified experience of On-Site Inspection & Off-Site Supervision of Banks/DFIs, Project Management, Funds Management and its Accounting.

During his stay at Banking Inspection Department, he examined a number of major banks, DFIs and Exchange Companies. He has also conducted various specialized inspections/ investigations. At Banking Supervision Department, Mr. Abid had the unique opportunity to manage Microfinance Sector Development Project - a GOP project initiated with the assistance of Asian Development Bank. Prior to that, Mr. Abid was actively involved in Off-Site monitoring of banks. For a short period, he also served at Citibank, Pakistan in Marketing Department where he started his career.

Mr. Sultan holds Master degree in business Administration from IBA, Karachi. He is also an associate of Institute of Bankers, Pakistan.

S Askary H Rizvi
Head Internal Audit
Mr. Askary brings with him over 23 years of diversified and rich experience of the financial sector. During this time, he held senior positions in all major spheres of activities in financial institutions including Leasing Companies, Modarabas and Discount House. Furthermore, he has firsthand experience of floatation of utility bonds, privatization transactions and incorporation of banks & NBFIs.

In addition to being a business graduate, he also holds L.L.B. degree and has completed statutory training requirement of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.

Sadaf Aliuddin
Unit Head Risk Management
Ms. Aliuddin has over 09 years of work experience concentrated towards assessment and monitoring of risk. During her association with JCR-VIS Credit Rating Company Limited, she was involved in credit ratings of top corporates and financial institutions in Pakistan. She was also a Voting Member of the Rating Committee.

Ms. Aliuddin is an MBA from Institute of Business Administration (IBA). She is also a CFA and FRM Charter holder.

Amber Paracha
Head of Credit Risk
Amber Paracha brings over 13 years of risk management experience to PBIC. She was associated with two reputed foreign commercial banks prior to joining Pak Brunei Investment Company in May 2010 as Head of Credit Risk. Ms. Paracha started her career as a management trainee in credit risk at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in 1997. She grew within her role over the 11 years she spent there and was working as the Deputy Country Risk Officer till mid 2008. In her over decade long association with ABN AMRO, she received extensive trainings and also got the opportunity to work at the regional credit committees in Singapore, Hong Kong and the head office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on short term secondments. In July 2008, she joined Barclays Bank in Pakistan as a Commercial Credit Director heading the Sanctioning and the Credit Administration departments. She was instrumental in setting up the risk department and to the growth of the corporate portfolio of this bank in a short span of time.

She holds an MBA in Finance from the Institute of Business Administration- an overall bronze medalist in the MBA year.