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.

Athar Abrar Khwaja

Athar Abrar Khwaja is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Engro Energy Limited (EEL). In this role, Athar is responsible for the company's power generation assets - Engro Powergen Thar Limited (EPTL) and Engro Powergen Qadirpur Limited (EPQL).

In a professional career spanning nearly 20 years, he has diverse experience in Process Engineering, Projects, Marketing, Strategic Sourcing and Business Development.

Prior to this Athar had been working as CEO EPTL since 2023 & continues to hold this position alongside his role. He joined EPCL in 2004 as a Process Engineer and worked his way to the position of GM Technical in 2014. During this period, he was part of the project team responsible for the relocation, construction, and commissioning of the VCM plant from Baton Rouge LA as well as heading the business planning department where he negotiated with first long-term EDC sourcing agreement for EPCL along with executing record VCM exports of 20 KT in 2013.

From 2015 – 2018, he led the marketing function for the chemicals business at ICI Pakistan.

He re-joined Engro Polymers as GM Expansion Projects in 2018. His achievements at EPCL include leading the PVC 3 and VCM DBN Expansion projects. He strategically navigated the project during the Covid pandemic and ensured project completion and successful commercialization. He later went onto assume the position of Vice president projects and business development where he was responsible for crafting the long term growth strategy of the organization.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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

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.