Our Team

Chairman

Ali Farid Khwaja

Ali has more than 15 years’ experience in equity research and investments. Prior to joining KASB, Ali was a Partner at Autonomous Research in London (now a part of Alliance Bernstein), where he led equity research of European Fintech companies. Before Autonomous, Ali was the CFO and Board Director of SafeCharge Group (LSE: SCH LN), a global payments company listed on the London Stock Exchange. He has been a top-ranked Technology Analyst in Europe at Berenberg and UBS. Ali is an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is also a Patron of the British Pakistan Foundation and a member of the Business and Entrepreneur Forum of the UK Conservative Party.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Mahmood Ali Shah Bukhari

Mahmood Ali Shah Bukhari is the co-founder and CEO of KTrade Securities Limited, Pakistan’s leading Fintech Online Trading App. He’s a member of YPO Capital Pakistan and has served as their Chapter Chair and Regional Forum Chair. With 12 years in Pakistan’s financial sector, Mahmood holds degrees from the University of Waterloo, IMD, and NDU. He’s a director at SIAL and a lifetime member of SAARC. Additionally, Mahmood co-founded Blocktech, Pakistan’s first NFT launching company. He’s been recognized as the Best CEO in Pakistan for 2022 by Finance Asia, received the Top Entrepreneur Award at Pakistan Entrepreneur Awards 2023, and selected as the Global Program Fellow 2024 from Pakistan by Eisenhower Fellowships.

Advocate Mariam Farid, Managing Partner Farid, Farid Law Firm

Mariam Farid Khwaja

Mariam Farid Khwaja is an Advocate of High Courts and is based in the Islamabad office. She holds an LLB(Hons) degree from the University of London. Mariam has experience in Media, Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Media, Regulatory Affairs, financial, commercial, constitutional, banking and tax matters in Pakistan. In Pakistan she has worked with major commercial practitioners of the country like Kamran Sheikh Law Associates. Mariam, being the legal Manager of a Private Limited Company, was involved in acquiring Pakistan’s first ever Direct to Home (PayTV) licence awarded by PEMRA.

Founder & GP at Zayn Venture Capital

Faisal Aftab

Faisal is the Founder of Zayn VC, a leading VC in MENAP. Faisal has an MBA from Oxford University, joint Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Michigan State University USA. He has also been an investor in Hedge Funds, Venture Capital Funds and an active Angel Investor for over 15 years. Faisal is a limited partner of the Silicon Valley-based Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups.

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Chairman

Ali Farid Khwaja

Ali has more than 15 years’ experience in equity research and investments. Prior to joining KASB, Ali was a Partner at Autonomous Research in London (now a part of Alliance Bernstein), where he led equity research of European Fintech companies. Before Autonomous, Ali was the CFO and Board Director of SafeCharge Group (LSE: SCH LN), a global payments company listed on the London Stock Exchange. He has been a top-ranked Technology Analyst in Europe at Berenberg and UBS. Ali is an alumnus of Georgetown Leadership Seminar and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is also a Patron of the British Pakistan Foundation and a member of the Business and Entrepreneur Forum of the UK Conservative Party.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Mahmood Ali Shah Bukhari

Mahmood Ali Shah Bukhari is the co-founder and CEO of KTrade Securities Limited, Pakistan’s leading Fintech Online Trading App. He’s a member of YPO Capital Pakistan and has served as their Chapter Chair and Regional Forum Chair. With 12 years in Pakistan’s financial sector, Mahmood holds degrees from the University of Waterloo, IMD, and NDU. He’s a director at SIAL and a lifetime member of SAARC. Additionally, Mahmood co-founded Blocktech, Pakistan’s first NFT launching company. He’s been recognized as the Best CEO in Pakistan for 2022 by Finance Asia, received the Top Entrepreneur Award at Pakistan Entrepreneur Awards 2023, and selected as the Global Program Fellow 2024 from Pakistan by Eisenhower Fellowships.

Managing Director

Naveed Vakil

Managing Director

Omar Salah

Managing Director

Hozaifa Ejaz

CFO

Muzaffar Iqbal

Mr. Muzaffar Iqbal is the CFO & Company Secretary of KTrade Securities Limited (formerly known as Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Securities Limited) Limited with wide experience of over 12 years in financial sectors. Prior to joining KTrade Securities Limited (formerly known as Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Securities Limited) (Pvt) Ltd, Muzaffar served as Head of Compliance and Head of Internal Audit in Topline for three years. He also served First Women Bank Limited as Regional Head of Audit for three years. Prior to that he served as a Supervisor and Associate in BDO Ebrahim, Co Chartered Accountants. Muzaffar is a member of Institute of Internal Control (CICA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFrA) and also a CA finalist at ICAP.

Head of Risk and Compliance

Ali Abbas

Principal of Investments, Osiris Capital, Hong Kong

Jonathan Bond

Jonathan is a co-founder/partner of TTB. He has 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, latterly running Bond Ventures, a Hong Kong based family office specializing in global venture and private equity investments.
Jonathan started his career at Merrill Lynch and has worked in fund management as Partner and Managing Director at two hedge funds ranging in size from US$200-800mln. Over the last decade, Jonathan has spent his time offering strategic advice to Chinese companies, both public and private, on their overseas strategies.
He was born in Asia and has spent the majority of his life between Hong Kong, UK and the USA. Jonathan was educated at Ton bridge School, Kent and Durham University in England. He also sits on the Venture Investors Alliance of HK.

Principal of Investments, Osiris Capital, Hong Kong

Sardar Ahmed Durrani

Sardar Ahmed Durrani is a Principal of Investments at the Osiris Group LLC, a private equity firm based out of Hong Kong. He is the Food and Agriculture sector head for Asia, as well as the country lead for Pakistan. In his role he oversees impact investments the firm makes in the frontier markets of Asia. The funds of the firm are focused on the high growth national priority transformative sectors in frontier Asia; which include Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar as the portfolio countries.

Christian Angermeyer

Waleed Saigol