Training Facilitators

Adeel S. Shaikh

Adeel is a seasoned resource in the area of Finance. He has conducted trainings with LCCI, FBR and multiple corporate firms in the areas of Finance, Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Evaluations. He has earned his CPA and CMA from Canada. Prior to that, he completed MS in Finance from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Adeel's exposure to Canada, USA, and Pakistan academically and professionally makes him elite with great deliverables.

Aly Raza Syed

Aly works as a bespoke trainer, intervention specialist and strategic consultant. He holds a degree of Masters in International Business from the Helsinki, Finland and has over two decades of corporate experience. He is CFERT Certified from the George Mason University, USA. As an intervention coach, Aly has successfully delivered trainings on Seamless Team Building, Negotiations Strategies, Leadership Echo Systems, Iconic Supervisory Skills, Leadership Adventure, Strategy Safari, Outbound Away Day, etc. His clients include Total Parco, Zeitgeist, Pepsi Cola Pakistan, Lotte Kolson (Pvt.) Ltd, Coca-Cola International,

Abdul rafay

Mr. Abdul Rafay is a Fellow member (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and a Licenced International Financial Analyst (LIFA), USA. For more than 20 years, Mr. Rafay has been working as a practitioner, freelance advisor, consultant & trainer to a wide variety of public & private sector national and multinational companies in the areas of Corporate Finance, Financial Policy & Implementation, Auditing & Assurance, Accountancy, Corporate Tax Management and Financial Technology. During last 15 years Mr. Rafay successfully conducted the open enrollment and customized corporate trainings on Finance for Non-Finance Professionals, Financial Statements Analysis, Cost Management, Working Capital Management Decisions, Finance for Sales & Production Managers, Strategic Financial Planning, Taxation for Salaried Persons, Corporate Financial Management, Mutual Fund Investments, Capital Budgeting Decisions, Corporate Governance Practices in Pakistan, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (Co-trainer), Financial Modeling using Excel (Co-trainer) and International Financial Reporting Standards (Co-trainer).

Dr. Ammar Aftab Raja

Dr. Ammar has done his PhD in Finance from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a Disruptive Data Scientist, and believes in using the power of Big Data Analytics to disrupt everything from the Banking sector to the Government. His areas of expertise include Game Theory, Gamification, Mathematical Thinking, Statistical Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Quantitative Analytics, Hadoop Apache Spark, Machine Learning, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, IBM Watson Analytics, Version Control Tools, Git, Github, Gitbucket, Gitlab, User Acceptance Testing and all aspects of data scraping, cleaning, visualizing and deploying Data products using R Statistical Programming Language.

Asher Ramish

Mr. Asher Ramish has cross cultural experience of more than 15 years in the corporate/private sector from organizations both in Pakistan and Germany. Asher has done his MS in Production Management from Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. He also holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. He has conducted numerous seminars and workshops in several academic and management training sessions in Pakistan in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Logistics Management, Freight Forwarding, Supply Chain Strategies, Vendor Selection and Development, Distribution Networks, RFID, 3PL, BPO, CPFR, Problem Solving and Decision Making skills and Project Management. Employees from Cocacola, Pepsi, ICI Chemicals, Kot Addu Power Plant, Bata, Service Industries, Stylo Shoes, Berger Paints, PSO, Shell, Total Parco, Haleeb Foods, Packges, Agility Logistics, Borjan, Raaziq International, Samin Textiles, UVAS, Vandana, PIFFA, Bank of Punjab and AFAQ foundation have attended these trainings on various topics, either open enrollment or customized. He also provides specialized consultancy services in the same areas.

Fatima Manzar

Fatima is gold medalist in teaching English as a second language and a qualified expert in Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaires from Pearson, UK. She is also a qualified assessor of IQ and personality for young and adult students. Her training style is need-driven which ensures meaningful transfer of training. Fatima is a stakeholder driven and interactive English Language Trainer with an informed teaching experience. She has worked for clients in the IT, Service, Retail, Pharma and other industries.

Ijaz Yusuf

Ijaz earned his Master of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. He has conducted many training workshops for NPO, PNAC, SMEDA, LCCI, MCCI, FCCI, SCCI, GCCI, FPCCI, TDAP, PREGTTI, PAAPAM, PEFMA, PIQC, QCI and IEP. He is the Vice Chairman of Quality and Productivity Society of Pakistan, the President of Pakistan Chapter of System Dynamics Society MIT, USA.

Imran Sadiq

Imran is a highly skilled business professional with over 14 years of experience in Customer Management and Business organizations with some of the best organizations in the world. He has worked at Taco Bell, PepsiCo, USA, as a training manager. During his tenure at Unilever Pakistan, Imran achieved new milestones by giving 121% growth on sales targets. He has also conducted training for the sales staff at Unilever Pakistan on retail planning.

Lt. Col. Dr. Imtiaz Mahmud, PhD

Dr. Imtiaz has been conducting Training, Meditation and Therapy sessions for a wide cross section of people. He is Master Practitioners of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and PhD in “Time Lines” of NLP. He is also Reiki Master (Usui and Kundalini), Certified Hypnotherapist, Silva Method Practitioner, Acupressure Specialist, Health Palmist, Numerologist, Astrologer, Counselor and Spiritual Healer. He is the founder of One Minute Wonder (OMW) and Turbo Reiki. He has been presenting papers in The World Congress on Alternative Medicine and Pain Management and has been awarded the Award of Excellence.

Kamran Rashid

Kamran Rashid earned his Master in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has more than twenty years of professional experience in the manufacturing industry of Pakistan. Kamran is also actively involved in training corporate professionals and entrepreneurs in the areas of Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Decision Analysis, and Quality Management.

Dr. Naveda Kitchlew

Dr. Naveda earned her doctorate in Business Administration from University of BATH, UK. Prior to that, she holds MA degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology from National Louis University, USA. Naveda has conducted several training in areas like Diversity in the Workplace, Leadership in a Changing World, and Professional Motivation and Performance. She offers practical skills and develops in participants an analytical ability necessary to identify competencies for success, to create development plans, write assessment reports and revitalize the overall quality of the client relationship.

Dr. Nauman Shah

With extensive experience in using serious games to make training more immersive, engaging and motivating, Dr. Nauman aims to bring an innovative change in the education system by providing an interactive and immersive teaching environment. His research interests include gamification of Information Systems training modules to provide simulation based experience to the students. He has done his PhD in Computer Science from University of Hertfordshire where he worked as a research associate for a European Commission–funded project, Supervised Care and Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-Robotics (SCRIPT).

Dr. Rubeena Tashfeen

With vast experience in the field of Finance and Accounting, Dr. Rubeena has conducted various training and provided consultancy in the areas of Financial Management, Risk Management and Corporate Governance. Her key clients include Coopers & Lybrand Pakistan and Ford Rhodes Robson Morrow (Representative of Ernst & Young), Chartered Accountants Pakistan. She did her PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2016. She also holds a degree of MBA Finance and MS in English Literature.

Sadia Asif

Sadia has delivered training in communication skills to various companies of Pakistan; including, Highnoon Laboratories, Hi-Tech Lubricants, Jaffer Brothers, IKAN Engineering Services and Technology Up-gradation. She conducts and provides a variety of exercises and presentation material to help learners practice and strengthen their communication skills. She customizes and tailors the content of the workshops to the needs of the intended participants. She is the first ISW certified facilitator in Pakistan. She has done MA Applied Linguistics from Canada and MAEnglish Literature from Pakistan. She also holds Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Sami Ullah Bajwa

Sami Ullah Bajwa is a development practitioner and scholar, having a rich combination of over 12 years of experience of working with UNIDO, and SMEDA. Sami has also worked as Evaluation Consultant with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Wildlife Foundation (WWF), Solidaridad Netherlands, Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and PakLite (Pvt) Ltd. He is also an affiliate of George Mason University, USA.

Tahir Mahmood Fazal

Tahir Mahmood Fazal, ACFA, MBA (Finance and IT), Certified MS Office Specialist, Associate Certified Financial Accountants, has more than 17 years of diversified industry exposure. He is a Professional Trainer of Skill Development Council of Pakistan (SDC), Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center. He has been involved in corporate trainings, workshops, and seminars and in regular classes for Data Analysis, Dashboard Reporting, Excel Spreadsheet techniques, Advanced Charting techniques and Advanced Report development. Tahir possesses special skills in MS Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013. He is an expert in Advanced Excel Building Financial Modeling using Excel Dynamic Dashboards.

Dr. Tashfeen M. Azhar

Dr. Tashfeen has earned his PhD in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering with a focus on Production Planning and Control, Supply Chain Management, Fuzzy Mathematical Modeling, Computer Simulation, and Expert Systems from University of South Florida, USA. He has vast corporate experience in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Dr. Tashfeen has conducted numerous training workshops on Supply Chain Management, Production Planning, Forecasting, and Inventory Control.

Usman Sattar

Usman has more than 10 years of training and consultancy experience in the fields of Information System and System Security. He has conducted several trainings for national and multinational clients with respect to industrial focus. Usman has done his MS in Information Technology Management from University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. He is very successful in motivating participants to develop and enhance their analytical abilities and use IT resources intelligently for the solutions of day to day problems.

Usman Khalid

With a Masters in Information Systems, Usman has gained a unique perspective on how to implement technology in the corporate sector. He has trained different companies to take steps that are beneficial to the organization, as well as the environment. He has also helped make customized MRP software and Inventory Control Systems (ICS) for companies seeking to enhance their technology platform. His latest venture was with an Australian firm, Tandon, in which he used a multiple-regression model to help predict fluctuations in water entitlements. His interest areas include Information Systems, Enterprise Systems, Knowledge Management System, IT Project Management, Decision Support Systems, Data Mining and Data Warehousing.

Dr. Yasir Rashid

Dr. Yasir is an MIT Certified Digital and Social Media Marketing specialist. He has over 8 years of corporate trainings and academic teaching/research experience. He has trained over 2000 corporate executives over the years and worked for multi-billion dollars organizations in Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan.