Shahid Hamid Pracha (Chairperson)

Shahid Pracha previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Dawood Hercules Corporation, and Dawood Foundation. Prior to joining the Dawood Group, he spent a major part of his career with ICI PLC’s Pakistan operations in a variety of senior roles including a period of international secondment with the parent company in the UK. He is also a founding member of the Pakistan Society for Human Resource Managers and previously served as the first CEO of the Karachi Education Initiative, the sponsoring entity of the Karachi School of Business & Leadership.

Shahid holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Salford, UK.

Mohammad Shamoon Chaudry (Chief Executive Officer)

Shamoon Chaudry has more than 23 years of experience in the financial sector. Shamoon started his career in investment banking within Corporate Finance/Advisory in Pakistan. He then moved to New York selling listed equities to funds investing in emerging markets. Subsequently, he shifted to development finance helping Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). During this period, he has worked at the government and policy level, industrial sector level, and with other individual enterprises.

In the last twelve years, he worked primarily in Islamic investments, asset management, and financial control. During this period, he has managed investments in the UK, USA, EU, Southeast Asia, and GCC.

Shamoon also served as the adjunct faculty in finance at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He holds a master’s in finance from London Business School and an MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Shafiq Ahmed

Shafiq Ahmed joined Dawood Group in 2007 and has worked in different positions, including the Chief Executive Officer of Dawood Lawrencepur Limited and Tenaga Generasi Limited. He is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Group’s private companies comprising of Patek, Dawood Corporation, and Towershare. He is also serving on the Board of Directors of Dawood Lawrencepur, Tenaga Generasi, Reon Alpha, Dawood Corporation, SACH International, Pebbles, Inbox Business Technologies Limited, and The Dawood Foundation.

Prior to joining Dawood Group, he served in a senior management position at Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and EY Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder & Co., Chartered Accountants.

He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and has a degree in Law from the University of Karachi. Shafiq is also a certified director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance.

Mujtaba Haider Khan

Mujtaba previously served as the Head of Strategy for Dawood Hercules Corporation. Before DH Co, he worked as the Head of Strategy and Transformation for British Telecom in London. At BT, Mujtaba served in various commercial roles including Project Director in Global Services Division and as the Head of Procurement for the UK-wide fiber rollout program. Mujtaba started his career as a software entrepreneur at the age of 19 and since then he has been part of founding teams in a range of startups in technology, security, and financial services spaces.

Mujtaba holds his BS in Computer Systems Engineering and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

Ahsan Zafar Syed

Ahsan Zafar is the Chief Executive Officer of Engro Fertilizers and has been associated with Engro for more than 30 years.

He played a key role in the construction of the USD 1.1 Billion EnVen Project, for Engro Fertilizers and operations of Pakistan’s largest rice processing facility for Engro Eximp. Since 2014, Ahsan has been associated with Engro Energy, responsible for taking the Thar project to its commercial operations in 2019. He also served as the CEO of Engro Energy, overseeing investments, operations, and business development at Engro Powergen Qadirpur, Engro Powergen Thar, Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, Engro Energy Services, and Siddiqsons Energy.

Ahsan is also serving as the Chairman of the Board of Elengy Terminal Pakistan. He has previously served as Convenor “Light Engineering Sector” at the Engineering Development Board of Pakistan.

Ahsan holds an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology and a post-graduate degree from Manhattan College, USA. He has also completed an executive program from INSEAD.

Nasir Altaf

Nasir Altaf is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Dawood Investments and Manager of Capital Allocation for the Dawood group which involves formulating an asset allocation philosophy to deploy capital to generate risk-adjusted returns for the shareholders. He joined Dawood Group from Engro Corporation where he was serving as Manager – Mergers & Acquisitions and Investor Relations. He joined Engro in 2014 as a Management Trainee and has worked in various finance roles in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Finance, and New Ventures divisions.

Nasir is a CFA charter holder and holds an MSc in finance from Washington University, St. Louis under the Fulbright program. He holds an undergraduate from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.