Dr. Muhammad Sohail Khan Rajput, is the Chairman of PTCL’s Board of Directors. Dr. Rajput is a senior civil servant with expertise in financial management, and project development & management.
Mr. Hassan Nasir Jamy, is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by Government of Pakistan. He is currently the Secretary, Privatization Division/Commission, Government of Pakistan. Mr..
Mr. Yusuf Khan is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by Government of Pakistan. He is currently serving as Additional Secretary (Incharge), Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan..
Syed Hussnain Abbas Kazmi, is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by the Government of Pakistan. He is currently serving as the Executive Director of National Information Technology.
Dr. Muhammad Sohail Khan Rajput, is the Chairman of PTCL’s Board of Directors. Dr. Rajput is a senior civil servant with expertise in financial management, and project development & management. He has over 25 years of experience in Civil Services of Pakistan, which includes managing provincial government finances and handling diversified development projects. His key achievements include developing Thar Coal mining and power project, improving fiscal health of Government of Sindh through effective financial management and establishing a robust delivery and monitoring system at Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Sindh. He is currently serving as a Federal Secretary, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Government of Pakistan.Dr. Rajput had completed his MBBS degree in 1988, from Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in 2004, from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. He also did MPA in Economics Policy Management with concentration in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia University, New York. He was awarded Hubert H. Humphery fellowship by US Department of State, in recognition of his leadership skills, under which he attended academic courses at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Duke University and did an internship at the World Bank.
Mr. Abdulrahim A. Al Nooryani is the longest serving Board member and has been on the Board since 2006. Mr. Al Nooryani has 40 years’ experience in the telecom industry. He is Chairman of Etisalat International Pakistan LLC, which is a subsidiary of Emirates Telecommunication Company. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pak Telecom Mobile Limited. Mr. Al Nooryani joined Etisalat as a graduate trainee, and subsequently rose to become the Chief Officer Procurement, Contracts and Administration. He held several directorships at Etisalat’s numerous subsidiaries.
Mr. Hassan Nasir Jamy, is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by Government of Pakistan. He is currently the Secretary, Privatization Division/Commission, Government of Pakistan. Mr. Jamy is a member of Pakistan’s Civil Services. He did his MBA (Finance) from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 1987. Later on he also completed his MA in Rural Development from University of Sussex, UK (1995-96) and the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program (in Public Policy) from the University of North Carolina, USA (2003-04). He has more than 31 years of work experience in administration and project management in a variety of core disciplines in the public sector. Exposure in policy planning and implementation, local governance structures and reforms, service delivery mechanisms and establishment of performance evaluation systems are some of his areas of strength. Before joining the Privatisation Division/Privatisation Commission in December, 2020, he worked as the Secretary of Aviation and Climate Change Divisions. He has also served Government of the Punjab as Secretary, Local Government.
Mr. Yusuf Khan is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by Government of Pakistan. He is currently serving as Additional Secretary (Incharge), Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan. Mr. Khan has thirty two years of experience to work with the public sector, international development agencies and civil society organizations. He considered to be a public sector reforms and program management specialist and have worked at the levels of community, municipality, district, province and the federal government. His last assignment was Secretary, Benazir Income Support Program / Ehsaas. Previously, he worked as Finance Secretary, Government of Punjab and also as Finance Secretary to the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Moreover, he worked at the Federal Ministry of Finance as Joint Secretary (External Finance), Joint Secretary (Development Finance) and Joint Secretary (Development) at the Federal Ministry of Health. He also have five years’ experience of working in the tribal districts of former FATA.Mr. Khan was awarded the Britannia Premier Award by the British High Commission in 1996, which is given to individuals possessing high academic credentials, along with the potential to contribute to improvement of life in their country. He got his MPhil in Development Studies, from the University of Cambridge, UK. He speaks nine languages and is an avid painter and calligrapher.
Mr. Hatem Dowidar possesses more than 20 years of experience in the telecom industry. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Etisalat International. Mr. Dowidar started his career in AEG/Deutsche Aerospace (Daimler Benz Group) in Egypt before moving to Marketing in Procter & Gamble. Prior to joining Etisalat Group, he was the Group Chief of Staff for Vodafone Group. Mr. Dowidar was previously with Vodafone Egypt and served as Marketing Director, later becoming the CEO of Vodafone Egypt. He held several senior positions at Vodafone Group and its subsidiaries, including Group Core Services Director, CEO of Vodafone Malta, CEO of Partner Markets with partnerships covering over 45 markets and Regional Director Emerging Markets. Mr. Dowidar also serves as Chairman and Board Member in several Corporate Boards within and outside the telecommunications industry. Mr. Dowidar holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and Electronics Engineering from Cairo University and an MBA from the American University in Cairo.
Mr. Khalifa Al Forah Al Shamsi is the Chief Strategy & Corporate Governance Officer, Etisalat Group. Mr. Al Shamsi possesses more than 20 years’ experience in telecom and ICT industry. Prior to his current position, he has rendered services with Etisalat Group as Chief Corporate Governance officer; the Chief Digital services officer; Senior Vice President of Technology and Network Strategy. He is responsible for leading Etisalat Group focus on various industry verticals such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), cloud services, commerce and digital advertisement, advanced communications, digital entertainment, and video services, and aims to boost the Etisalat position in the digital eco-system and driving innovation and advanced services to Etisalat customers across all areas of operation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Etisalat Afghanistan and E-vision - the UAE-based TV, content and multimedia company. Mr. Shamsi graduated from the University of Kentucky, USA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. Karim Bennis is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by EIP and working as an Acting Group CFO, Etisalat Group. He was appointed as Vice President Financial Control and Planning of Etisalat Group in August 2013, a leading company in the telecom market within Middle East, Asia and Africa (USD 14 billion Revenues). His area of responsibility is the Etisalat Group footprint which includes 16 countries including UAE, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In his previous roles, Karim served as Deputy Managing Director and CFO at Tractafric Motors Corp. His other roles included Finance Controller, Strategic Planning & Subsidiaries Management of Maroc Telecom (7 years as a Secondee of Vivendi Group) and Group Financial Controller European Division of Crown Cork & Seal Company in Paris. Along with his expertise in Telecoms, Karim has international experience of various industries including manufacturing, retail and heavy equipment. Karim is a member of the Board, Executive Committee and Audit Committee of Etisalat Egypt. He also serves on the Board and Audit committee of Atlantique Telecom Holding. Karim holds a Masters in Economics & Corporate Finance from Sciences-Po Paris, an Executive MBA from Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussees and a PhD in Economics & Technology from Conservatoire National des Arts & Metiers in France.
Syed Hussnain Abbas Kazmi, is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by the Government of Pakistan. He is currently serving as the Executive Director of National Information Technology Board (NITB), Ministry of IT & Telecom. He completed his Masters in Public Administration with HR as a major from University of The Punjab in 2005. He has been working with the Federal Government on various leadership roles since 2017, earlier he was working as Director General (Admin) in NITB. Mr. Kazmi has an extensive public and private work exposure with great achievements. He is a seasoned management practitioner with an experience of more than two decades, which includes extensive top leadership experience managing a full spectrum of human resources and operations programs, services and functions i.e. financial management, budgeting, audits, general admin, procurement, project management, security, organizational development, learning management, talent management, employee relations, compensation management, HRIS, operational management, business process re-engineering (BPR), change management, organizational re-structuring with proven record of achieving organizational goals.
Mr. Burak Sevilengul is a Member on the Board of the Company nominated by EIP. He is currently working as Chief Commercial Officer at Etisalat, responsible from International operations in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Mr. Burak brings 25 years of experience in international companies in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the USA of which more than 20 years is in the telecommunications and technology industries. Prior to his current role, he assumed the Chief Consumer Officer position at Turkcell, a regional telecommunications and digital services provider and board positions in retail and fintech companies. In addition to member PTCL Board, Mr. Burak currently is the Chairman of U Microfinance Bank Limited (UMBL)- a subsidiary of PTCL Group. Burak holds a B.SC degree in Management from Middle East Technical University and an MBA degree from University of Georgia.
