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Askari Investment Management Limited (AIM) is one of the leading asset management companies of Pakistan. AIM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Askari Bank Ltd. The bank was founded in 1992, and since its inception, its growth and success patterns have far outpaced industry averages. AIM was incorporated in 2005 and is licensed by the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) to undertake Asset Management and Investment Advisory activities. AIM strives to maintain the Askari tradition of customer satisfaction and exemplary performance through innovative investment products.

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Director Profiles

Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Imtiaz Hussain - MD AWT Chairman of Board

Lt. General (R.) Imtiaz Hussain is the Chairman of the Board of the Management Company. He is also the Managing Director of the Army Welfare Trust(AWT) and Chairman Executive Committee of Askari Bank Ltd, Chairman Board Askari Leasing Ltd. Chairman Board and Askari General Insurance Co. Ltd.

He joined an Infantry Battalion after obtaining his commission in 1971. He held various prestigious Command and Staff appointments during his 36 years of commissioned service. He served as the Directing Staff at the Command and Staff College. He also commanded an Infantry Corp, Division and Brigade.

General Imtiaz Hussain served as Director General Doctrine and Evaluation Directorate and subsequently as Director General Weapons and Equipment in General Headquarters. He commanded a Corps from May 2005 to April 2007. He served as Adjutant General of Pakistan Army before he retired.

Mr. M. Mehkari President and Chief Executive Askari Bank Ltd

Mr. Mehkari has over 37 year’s of experience of Treasury Management, Foreign Exchange and Branch Management Operations at Askari Bank Ltd. and other banks. He possesses management skills of planning and development, mobility, motivation and innovations that are required in the current modern banking in Pakistan. He has worked as Director, Foreign Exchange & Policy Department at State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) where he was instrumental for the foreign exchange policy liberalization in the country. He has also served as a member of Corporate Management Team and Monetary & Exchange Rate Policy Committee (MERPC) at SBP.

Mr. M.I. Naseem - Ex-Partner A. F. Ferguson Independent Director

Mr. Naseem is a Chartered Accountant by profession and is a fellow member of both, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He completed his professional education from England. Mr. Naseem has more than 27 years of professional experience in Audit and Business Advisory Services, Corporate Finance Services, Financial Investigations and Accounting & Transaction Services. He joined PriceWaterhouse (Now called PriceWaterHouseCoopers) in 1969, where he was primarily involved in servicing various clients in the Middle East and North Africa. In 1982 he was transferred to A. F. Ferguson & Co. (A member firm of PriceWaterHouse in Pakistan), one of the most prestigious firm of Chartered Accountants in Pakistan. During his 22 years with the firm, Mr. Naseem served multinational and large national clients engaged in fields of Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Ocean Transportation, Investment Banking, Heavy Engineering, Steel Fabrication, Brokerage Houses, etc. Moreover, he was also involved in the internal audit assignments of a number of clients of A. F. Ferguson & Co.

Mr. Shahid Azmi - Entrepreneur & Ex Employee-Lehman Brothers Independent Director

Mr. Azmi is a seasoned investment banker. He has been associated with Merrill Lynch, Dubai, E.F. Hutton, London and Lehman Brothers London, looking after various functions like asset management, mutual funds, interest rate swaps and dealing in futures and options. Mr. Azmi did his MBA from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi in 1975. He was also one of the founding directors of Askari Bank and served at the same position till Early 2005 for the Bank

Mr. Tahir Aziz Director

Mr. Aziz holds overall responsibility for Askari Banks corporate and investment banking business, that manages the relationships of the bank's large institutional customers as well as provides products and services related to strategic advisory, syndication's, project finance and capital markets. prior to his current assignment, Mr. Aziz was heading investment banking at Union Bank Ltd. Mr. Aziz also hold significant experience with the ANZ Banking Group, where he has worked on large transactions undertaken in Australia, United Kingdom, and the Middle East. Mr. Aziz holds an MBA degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and a Bachelors from Grinnell College (USA)

Maj. Gen (Rtd) Saeed Ahmed Khan Director

Maj Gen (Rtd) Saeed Ahmad Khan is currently working as Executive Director Army Welfare Trust. He has completed the Army Command and Staff course, the inter services war course from Republique Francaise and the Armed Forces War Course from National Defence University Islamabad. He has a Bsc Honors Degree from the Balochistan University and a MSc Honors Degree from Quaid-e-Azam University.

Mr. Sufian Mazhar Director

Mr. Mazhar is an MBA (MIS and Finance) from MC Gill University, Canada graduating in 1999. He has experience of strategic business operations, IT systems, quality control methodologies, business analysis and design, entrepreneurship and process engineering. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of a software startup and an Associate Professor of Business Management at a leading education institute of Pakistan.

Management

Mr. Adnan Siddiqui Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Siddiqui has capital markets experience of more than 15 years with a proven track record of outperforming the industry and benchmarks for consecutive 8 years. He is considered as the one of the pioneers of the asset management industry in Pakistan by playing an active role in setting up some of the best performing asset management companies of Pakistan. His skill set includes designing innovative efficiency tools, specialized products & structures. He emphasizes on building, training and managing teams of professionals for building institution’s image and that of its employees. He focuses on creating trust amongst investors and ensures delivery of efforts leading to win-win situation for all stakeholders. By qualification he is a Systems Analyst and posseses an MBA degree from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.

Mr. Irfan Saleem Awan-ACA Chief Financial Officer

Irfan has over four years of asset management industry experience. He is a qualified chartered accountant and has served his training period with Ernst and Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder and Co. Chartered Accountants.

Mr. Adnan Muzaffar Fund Manager – Fixed Income

Trained from fine institutions in USA- Washington Mutual, Freddie Mac, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touché. Expert in quantitative analysis & risk management.

Mr. Usman Ashraf      Group Head – Equities

Over fifteen years post qualification experience out of which his major exposure was with the capital markets of the country.

 
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