Mr. M Habibullah Khan (Chairman)
Mr. Habib Ullah Khan is the Founder and Chairman of Mega Conglomerate. The Mega & Forbes Group of Companies (Mega Group – MFG) is a diversified conglomerate with business holdings including the country’s largest container terminal, third largest dairy producer, top tier cement manufacturing company, vertically integrated shipping company and the progressive real-estate developer responsible for the only L.E.E.D. certified commercial building in Pakistan. He joined the board in 2018 and has served as Chairman of the Hub Power Company (HUBCO) since.
As a prolific philanthropist, Mr. Khan has been a patron of many social and environmental initiatives over the last four decades and has become strongly associated with various charitable causes. Most recently, he made the generous endowment of a building for visiting professors at The Institute of Business Administration in Karachi.
Kamran Kamal (Chief Executive Officer)
Mr. Kamran Kamal is an energy technology and policy specialist with experience in several different areas, including business strategy, wholesale electricity market reforms, electricity derivatives, energy technology evaluation and largescale infrastructure project structuring. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. He joined HUBCO as Chief Executive Officer Laraib Energy Limited, Pakistan’s first Hydel Independent Power Plant (IPP). Prior to becoming CEO of Laraib Energy Limited, Mr. Kamal held the position of Vice President, China Power Hub Generation Company where he was responsible for development of Barge Jetty and fuel supply chain for 1320 MW Coal fired Power Plant.
Previously, he was Commodities Trade Head, Engro EXIMP FZE where he managed Fertiliser, Coal, Oilseeds and Sugar Trading Portfolios and his work there allowed the organization to grow into new geographical locations and expand their commodities portfolio. During his tenure at Engro, Mr. Kamal was also involved in major energy & infrastructure projects including Thar Coal Mining & Power Plant, LNG Floating terminal and RLNG based power plant. Throughout the years, Mr. Kamal has been responsible for large capital projects, building organizational capabilities and for overall business delivery in both management, executive and Board roles.
Mr. Aly Khan (Director)
Mr. Aly Khan holds a Master of Sciences from Boston College and a Bachelor of Sciences from Northeastern University.
Over the course of the last decade, he has cultivated his professional career working in London, Singapore and New York for various global institutions including Citi Group and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation in several management and training capacities.
In Pakistan, Mr. Khan has extended valuable contributions to multiple ventures through key management roles including spearheading the construction and operation of Pakistan’s first commercial L.E.E.D. Certified Building, setting up a state-of-the-art 10,000 ton per day cement plant, and growing one of the country’s largest dairy businesses’ sales to 600,000 liters per day.
He is the Chairman of Pioneer Cement Ltd., Chairman of Haleeb Foods Limited and a Director of Qasim International Container Terminal. He is a SECP certified director in corporate governance.
Ms. Aleeya Khan (Director)
Ms. Aleeya Khan holds a Master’s in Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University.
During her time at university, she periodically worked at the globally recognized architecture firm, Beyer Blinder Belle. After finishing her formal education Ms. Khan spent six months working at a New York based practice Only-If Architecture and then moved back to Pakistan to work at Imperial Builders & Developers (Private) Ltd, the real estate development arm of Mega Conglomerate.
Over the last few years, she has been working on several projects in collaboration with one of Pakistan’s leading architecture firms, Habib Fida Ali Architects to familiarize herself with the local market and expand the IDBL portfolio and continue in its goal to change the Real Estate landscape of Pakistan. While actively participating in the architecture, construction, and management side of IDBL, Aleeya founded ALEEYA. design studio (A.) to further cultivate her personal design philosophy: creating minimalistic design solutions that allow for a coalescence between aesthetics and functionality.
Ms. Khan also serves as a Director of Pioneer Cement Ltd. and Haleeb Foods Limited and is an SECP certified director in corporate governance.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmad (Director)
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of National Investment Trust Limited (NIT). As COO, he has been successfully managing the operations and investment portfolio worth over Rs.170bn. He has experience of over 30 years of the Mutual Fund industry and has been placed at many key positions within NIT that includes capital market operations, investment management, research and liaising with the regulatory authorities. He has also served NIT as its Managing Director (Acting) twice from May 2013 to May 2014 and September 2017 to February 2019. He is M.B.A. and also holds D.A.I.B.P. He has also been the Council Member of The Institute of Bankers Pakistan. Presently, he is pursuing Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) level III.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed has vast experience of serving on the Boards of various top ranking companies of Pakistan belonging to the diverse sectors of economy.
Mr. Ahmed has also attended various training courses organized by institutions of international repute like London Business School (LBS) UK, Institute of Directors, London and Financial Markets World, New York (USA). Currently, he represents NIT as Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of many leading national and multinational companies of Pakistan. Mr. Ahmed is also a Certified Director from Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed is also member of the Defense Authority Country Club and Golf Club – Karachi.
Mr. Saad Iqbal (Director)
Mr. Saad Iqbal holds a bachelor’s in business communication from Curry College, USA, and a postgraduate diploma in International Business Management from the Kingston University, United Kingdom. He has also obtained certificates in finance for non-financial managers from LUMS, Capital Markets and Finance from KSBL and Financial Modeling from IBA.
He is on the Board of several companies including Kot Addu Power Company Limited (Kapco), Tariq Glass Industries Limited, Millat Tractors Limited, Swift Textile Mills (Private) Limited, Metro Solar Power Limited, Metro Power Company Limited and Metro Wind Power Limited.
Mr. Shafiuddin Ghani Khan (Director)
Mr. Shafiuddin Ghani Khan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of Oregon, USA. After completing his education, he returned to Pakistan and developed his family real estate and construction business. He was instrumental in building several town houses projects in the city of Karachi, especially in the areas of DHA and Clifton.
Mr. Ghani has more than two decades of management experience in the field of Construction, real estate, and telecommunications. He had an illustrious career with M/s Forbes Group / Forbes Forbes Campbell & Co. (Private) Limited, where he rose to the rank of Chief Executive Officer and was looking after operational affairs of many business units of the group, including shipping lines logistics and communication equipment. His professional responsibilities included an array of business units of diversified nature including marketing and sales, customer services and customer support, accounts, finance and administration. Mr. Khan is a Non-Executive Director and member of audit and remuneration committees on the Board of Pioneer Cement Limited where he has been providing guidance and leadership to the management since 2009.
For the last many years, he has also been serving as a Non-Executive Director of a renowned dairy manufacturing company, Haleeb Foods Limited, providing leadership, guidance in development and diversification of the products portfolio
Ms. Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri (Director)
Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri is a versatile and enlightened politician affiliated with the Balochistan Awami Party/BAP who was sworn in as Senator of the House of Federation in March 2021. Since arriving in Senate she has been leading her visionary efforts to combat violence against women and human rights violations; work on judicial and police reforms; streamline institutional governance, and oversee other substantial matters of national importance through her vibrant role as a legislator and serving as a member of the Senate Standing Committees on Interior, Law and Justice, Delegated Legislation, Foreign Affairs, and others.
Besides, being a member of parliament, Senator Samina comes from a background steeped in the legal profession. She, as a lawyer, was enrolled in Sindh High Court Karachi on 17th Jan. 2012; Sindh Bar Council Karachi on 05th May 2007, and Karachi Bar Association on 05th May 2007. Areas of her legislative interests include corporate, financial and banking reforms, legal aid mechanisms, human rights, and civil and criminal matters.
Senator Samina has proved herself as a philanthropist also who remains ready to serve vulnerable communities in their hour of need. Most recently, in acknowledgment of her meritorious and generous flood relief efforts, she was nominated as the Focal Person by the Balochistan government during Floods 2022 in Balochistan. Working up to the best of one’s capabilities through utmost devotion is her benchmark.
Syed Bakhtiar Kazmi (Director)
Mr Kazmi is a fellow chartered accountant with over 35 years of experience in a diverse range of sectoral and functional strata within national and regional economies. The key areas of his specialization are fiscal policy and macroeconomic research, greenfield and brownfield projects, strategic collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, outliers in accounting and finance, strategic level audit and assurance and tax reforms and strategic level advisory.
Mr Kazmi served KPMG for 35 years; last 25 years as a partner. As a partner he interacted with the leadership in almost every industry, understanding their vision, their insights, and most importantly on their business strategies. His rigorous exposure to a diverse range of sectors and projects, enabled him to conceive and culminate strategic value additions for his clients, pertaining to public and private sector organizations. He successfully implemented a comprehensive service delivery framework that ensures quality assured service provision to KPMG’s clients, and a cross-functional integration with the advisory and taxation services that allowed a robust and comprehensive service delivery package to the clients. As an auditor and an advisor, Mr Kazmi successfully delivered his promise of providing best-in-class and integrity driven services. With his career progression, he branched into macroeconomic research with a focus on contributing towards fiscal and regulatory policies of Pakistan. He almost single handedly established advisory practice of KPMG in Islamabad about 2 decades ago which today arguably is the go to advisory in Islamabad. This initiative covered financial projections, feasibilities, information memorandums, internal audit assessments, HR assessments, manuals for processes and controls, valuations, and development advisory which included an assessment of the Punjab and Sindh governments.
Mr. Bakhtiyar Kazmi has served on a number of diverse forums / boards in the Private Sector, Public Sector & Civil Society Organization. As a thinker, he actively spreads his thoughts and ideas through his articles on national economics, business and taxation mattes and issues, regularly published in reputable dailies. Mr Kazmi is an avid golfer and currently hold the position of captain of Islamabad golf club.
Mr. M Habibullah Khan (Chairman)
Mr. Habib Ullah Khan is the Founder and Chairman of Mega Conglomerate. The Mega & Forbes Group of Companies (Mega Group – MFG) is a diversified conglomerate with business holdings including the country’s largest container terminal, third largest dairy producer, top tier cement manufacturing company, vertically integrated shipping company and the progressive real-estate developer responsible for the only L.E.E.D. certified commercial building in Pakistan. He joined the board in 2018 and has served as Chairman of the Hub Power Company (HUBCO) since.
As a prolific philanthropist, Mr. Khan has been a patron of many social and environmental initiatives over the last four decades and has become strongly associated with various charitable causes. Most recently, he made the generous endowment of a building for visiting professors at The Institute of Business Administration in Karachi.
Kamran Kamal (Chief Executive Officer)
Mr. Kamran Kamal is an energy technology and policy specialist with experience in several different areas, including business strategy, wholesale electricity market reforms, electricity derivatives, energy technology evaluation and largescale infrastructure project structuring. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. He joined HUBCO as Chief Executive Officer Laraib Energy Limited, Pakistan’s first Hydel Independent Power Plant (IPP). Prior to becoming CEO of Laraib Energy Limited, Mr. Kamal held the position of Vice President, China Power Hub Generation Company where he was responsible for development of Barge Jetty and fuel supply chain for 1320 MW Coal fired Power Plant.
Previously, he was Commodities Trade Head, Engro EXIMP FZE where he managed Fertiliser, Coal, Oilseeds and Sugar Trading Portfolios and his work there allowed the organization to grow into new geographical locations and expand their commodities portfolio. During his tenure at Engro, Mr. Kamal was also involved in major energy & infrastructure projects including Thar Coal Mining & Power Plant, LNG Floating terminal and RLNG based power plant. Throughout the years, Mr. Kamal has been responsible for large capital projects, building organizational capabilities and for overall business delivery in both management, executive and Board roles.
Mr. Aly Khan (Director)
Mr. Aly Khan holds a Master of Sciences from Boston College and a Bachelor of Sciences from Northeastern University.
Over the course of the last decade, he has cultivated his professional career working in London, Singapore and New York for various global institutions including Citi Group and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation in several management and training capacities.
In Pakistan, Mr. Khan has extended valuable contributions to multiple ventures through key management roles including spearheading the construction and operation of Pakistan’s first commercial L.E.E.D. Certified Building, setting up a state-of-the-art 10,000 ton per day cement plant, and growing one of the country’s largest dairy businesses’ sales to 600,000 liters per day.
He is the Chairman of Pioneer Cement Ltd., Chairman of Haleeb Foods Limited and a Director of Qasim International Container Terminal. He is a SECP certified director in corporate governance.
Ms. Aleeya Khan (Director)
Ms. Aleeya Khan holds a Master’s in Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Urban Design & Architecture from New York University.
During her time at university, she periodically worked at the globally recognized architecture firm, Beyer Blinder Belle. After finishing her formal education Ms. Khan spent six months working at a New York based practice Only-If Architecture and then moved back to Pakistan to work at Imperial Builders & Developers (Private) Ltd, the real estate development arm of Mega Conglomerate.
Over the last few years, she has been working on several projects in collaboration with one of Pakistan’s leading architecture firms, Habib Fida Ali Architects to familiarize herself with the local market and expand the IDBL portfolio and continue in its goal to change the Real Estate landscape of Pakistan. While actively participating in the architecture, construction, and management side of IDBL, Aleeya founded ALEEYA. design studio (A.) to further cultivate her personal design philosophy: creating minimalistic design solutions that allow for a coalescence between aesthetics and functionality.
Ms. Khan also serves as a Director of Pioneer Cement Ltd. and Haleeb Foods Limited and is an SECP certified director in corporate governance.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmad (Director)
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of National Investment Trust Limited (NIT). As COO, he has been successfully managing the operations and investment portfolio worth over Rs.170bn. He has experience of over 30 years of the Mutual Fund industry and has been placed at many key positions within NIT that includes capital market operations, investment management, research and liaising with the regulatory authorities. He has also served NIT as its Managing Director (Acting) twice from May 2013 to May 2014 and September 2017 to February 2019. He is M.B.A. and also holds D.A.I.B.P. He has also been the Council Member of The Institute of Bankers Pakistan. Presently, he is pursuing Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) level III.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed has vast experience of serving on the Boards of various top ranking companies of Pakistan belonging to the diverse sectors of economy.
Mr. Ahmed has also attended various training courses organized by institutions of international repute like London Business School (LBS) UK, Institute of Directors, London and Financial Markets World, New York (USA). Currently, he represents NIT as Nominee Director on the Board of Directors of many leading national and multinational companies of Pakistan. Mr. Ahmed is also a Certified Director from Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance.
Mr. Manzoor Ahmed is also member of the Defense Authority Country Club and Golf Club – Karachi.
Mr. Saad Iqbal (Director)
Mr. Saad Iqbal holds a bachelor’s in business communication from Curry College, USA, and a postgraduate diploma in International Business Management from the Kingston University, United Kingdom. He has also obtained certificates in finance for non-financial managers from LUMS, Capital Markets and Finance from KSBL and Financial Modeling from IBA.
He is on the Board of several companies including Kot Addu Power Company Limited (Kapco), Tariq Glass Industries Limited, Millat Tractors Limited, Swift Textile Mills (Private) Limited, Metro Solar Power Limited, Metro Power Company Limited and Metro Wind Power Limited.
Syed Bakhtiar Kazmi (Director)
Mr Kazmi is a fellow chartered accountant with over 35 years of experience in a diverse range of sectoral and functional strata within national and regional economies. The key areas of his specialization are fiscal policy and macroeconomic research, greenfield and brownfield projects, strategic collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, outliers in accounting and finance, strategic level audit and assurance and tax reforms and strategic level advisory.
Mr Kazmi served KPMG for 35 years; last 25 years as a partner. As a partner he interacted with the leadership in almost every industry, understanding their vision, their insights, and most importantly on their business strategies. His rigorous exposure to a diverse range of sectors and projects, enabled him to conceive and culminate strategic value additions for his clients, pertaining to public and private sector organizations. He successfully implemented a comprehensive service delivery framework that ensures quality assured service provision to KPMG’s clients, and a cross-functional integration with the advisory and taxation services that allowed a robust and comprehensive service delivery package to the clients. As an auditor and an advisor, Mr Kazmi successfully delivered his promise of providing best-in-class and integrity driven services. With his career progression, he branched into macroeconomic research with a focus on contributing towards fiscal and regulatory policies of Pakistan. He almost single handedly established advisory practice of KPMG in Islamabad about 2 decades ago which today arguably is the go to advisory in Islamabad. This initiative covered financial projections, feasibilities, information memorandums, internal audit assessments, HR assessments, manuals for processes and controls, valuations, and development advisory which included an assessment of the Punjab and Sindh governments.
Mr. Bakhtiyar Kazmi has served on a number of diverse forums / boards in the Private Sector, Public Sector & Civil Society Organization. As a thinker, he actively spreads his thoughts and ideas through his articles on national economics, business and taxation mattes and issues, regularly published in reputable dailies. Mr Kazmi is an avid golfer and currently hold the position of captain of Islamabad golf club.
Mr. Shafiuddin Ghani Khan (Director)