Mahmood Ali Shah Bukhari
Mariam Farid Khwaja
Ali Farid Khwaja
Sadaf Rehman
Faisal Aftab
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.
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.
Cofounder, Code School Pakistan
Sadaf Rehman
Sadaf has nearly two decades of experience driving social change for Pakistani youth, working with leading organizations such as LUMS, Generation You Employed, Acumen, and The Citizens Foundation. She is the co-founder of Codeschool.pk a coding literacy startup that won the Stanford SEED Spark award in Jan 2022. She has an undergraduate degree in computer science and math, and an MBA from LUMS, where she received a gold medal for first place overall.
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.