Hussain is the CEO of EcoPack Ltd and has over 40 years of business experience ...
Raza joined EcoPack in 2006 as Director Marketing and became COO of the company in ...
Chairman of the Board
Asad Ali Sheikh has recently been co-opted on the Board of EcoPack Limited as a Non-Executive Director to fill a casual vacancy. Before that he was on the Board of Directors of EcoPack Limited from 2008 and served as an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee from 2013 to 2022. He did his B.Com. and LL.B. from the University of Sindh and did his MBA (Finance) from The Institute of Business Management, Karachi.
He possesses a vast experience of 39 years’ in finance and 35 years' experience with Non-Banking Financial Institutions in Pakistan which essentially included Leasing Companies and Modarabas. His special focus was on Leasing and Islamic Finance with functional involvement in the areas of Credit, Marketing, Operations, Risk Management and Compliance. He served a long tenure with BRR Modaraba and its other group concerns for 18 years mostly at GM level looking after Credit, Marketing, Operations and Risk.
He also served at OLP Financial Services Pakistan Limited (formerly ORIX Leasing Pakistan Limited) for nine years before his retirement in 2023 as Senior Manager heading Islamic Finance, Compliance and supervising Operations and Special Asset Management departments. He is an accredited mediator, certified from Pakistan Mediators' Association.
Asad is also a Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG).
Chief Executive Officer/Director
Hussain is the CEO of EcoPack Ltd., and has over 46 years of experience in trade and industry. This includes setting up and running a private limited company in Karachi manufacturing flexible plastic packaging. He is the founder Chairman and CEO of EcoPack and continues to strategically lead the company's growth in key areas such as corporate relationship management, financial arrangements & structuring, as well as developing new opportunities and partnerships for the company’s long term sustainable growth.
Prior to founding EcoPack, Hussain was a successful entrepreneur trading packaging materials such as cotton bags, paper sacks, polythene liners and jute bags. He has also had international exposure in trading commodities such as steel and wheat flour when he was stationed overseas. Subsequently, he set up EcoPack in 1992 and commenced a career in industrial production of Rigid plastic packaging mainly for the Beverage industry in Pakistan. Hussain is a honours graduate from the University of Karachi.
Non-Executive Director
Ameen Jan is CEO of Ontex Pakistan (pvt) Limited, which is a subsidiary of Belgium-based Ontex Group and a leading player in the hygienic disposables business. Since 2018 he has led the Pakistan and South Asia business with full responsibility for growth strategy, business model, P&L, manufacturing oversight, portfolio management, Go-To-Market including exports, organization design, talent development, and business processes.
Prior to Ontex, Ameen was the founder and CEO of EDeQUAL, a Silicon Valley-backed education-technology venture, offering high-quality online instructional content and assessments in Math and Science for Pakistan’s primary and secondary schools and students. EDeQUAL’s turnkey and customised blended learning solutions enable schools to effectively implement technology-enabled learning with the assurance of results for their students.
Ameen has over twenty years’ experience as a management consultant and strategy advisor to governments and private sector companies in the UK, Europe, U.S. and Pakistan. Ameen’s international advisory experience spans multiple industries including consumer goods, energy, financial services, and technology, media & telecoms. His clients include the UK government, European Commission, United Nations, and the Inter-American Development Bank; he has supported these clients to develop effective strategies to deliver results on some of the most challenging security and development issues facing frontier markets in East Africa, South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central America. In Pakistan, Ameen has designed market entry strategy and successfully led, as country head, early-stage operational growth of Ontex. He has advised a Pakistani family-owned business group on strategy to improve profitability and negotiated improved terms with their global franchise partner. He has also advised the senior management of Pakistan’s oldest microfinance bank on their strategic growth priorities.
Ameen held a leadership position in the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (2003-05), where he helped to define UK policy and strategy in zones of conflict. Before that he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company (2001-03) in London, where he advised industry and government clients on a range of strategic and organisational issues. Prior to that, Ameen worked at the International Peace Institute in New York (1994-99), from where he advised the United Nations on intervention strategies in conflicts. He started his career as a development officer with the UN Operation in Somalia (1993-94) during the most intense period of that country’s civil war.
Ameen holds an MBA from Stanford University (2001), an MA in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University (1993), and a BA in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University (1990).
Non-Executive Director
Zohair is an experienced and qualified management professional with over 30 years of expertise in Strategy, Management, Social Policy and Organizational Development. He has worked for public and private sector organizations in the United States, Middle East and Pakistan. He is the Founder and Director of two professional management firms in Pakistan. AASA Consulting Private Limited is a multi-disciplinary advisory firm which provides services in Strategy and Research, Human Resource Management, Social Policy and Design & Communications. He was also the Founder/Director of Access Consulting, a Digital Technology company from which he exited in 2019. Currently, he serves as Chief Executive of AASA Consulting.
Zohair has worked as a Senior Partner and Head of Practice Grant Thornton International for 15 years including leading their HR & Social Policy practice until he resigned in 2018. He has also worked in senior management capacity with Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan for 9 years and led their Marketing and Patient Business Services functions from the inception of the Hospital till 1992. He has also served in mid-management capacity with Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and as an Insurance Underwriter with Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance Company in Hartford. USA.
He serves on the Senate of National Skills University, Chaired the Search Committees for hiring of Vice Chancellors for COMSATS University, Federal Urdu University, Health Services Academy and was the past Chairman of Hisaar Foundation. He is a Board member of Hisaar Foundation and Executive Board member of Panjwani-Hisaar Water Institute at NED University. His rich and diversified background will be beneficial for EcoPack Limited and its’ Board
Non-Executive Director
Ali Jamil has been a finance and mortgage adviser in the United Kingdom with almost 48 years' experience in property and finance. He was a sponsor Director of EcoPack Limited since its inception in 1992 and has served on EcoPack's board for several terms. He trained with the British Plastics institute and has a good understanding of the technological and marketing aspects of various plastic materials and manufacturing processes.
Ali has also worked in the family business of 'blown film extrusion and flexographic printing' for several years before he assisted insetting-up EcoPack Limited.
Non-Executive Director
Laila Jamil is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of EcoPack Limited. She completed her bachelors in history from Reed College, Portland Oregon, USA and has over 20 years of work experience running an SME business in Karachi before joining the social sector. She has worked for the Sind Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SlUT) as head of Resource Generation and Outreach and at Aman Foundation as General Manager Programs Development. Laila now works for the British Council in Pakistan as Director Arts.
Non-Executive Director
Sonya Jamil is a certified psychotherapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Having completed her bachelors degree in Business Administration in 2003 from Dublin, Sonya pursued an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy from CPPD Pakistan, and was subsequently certified by the BACP, UK. She currently practices as a private counsellor and has been associated with, and worked in the mental health field for 5 years. Her business and mental health background brings valuable diversity to the board of EcoPack.
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