BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mr. Tirmizey holds Master in Economics degree from University of Punjab and an MBA degree from IBA. He is an avid golfer and enjoys spending time with his family.

Mr. Sanaullah Quershi
Mr. Quershi is a senior corporate executive having over 35 years of enriched experienced for working with multinationals like ICI and Forbes Campbell & Co. Mr. Quershi joined ICI in 1962 and ascending through a series of increasingly responsible position was appointed Executive Director (1983) and Deputy Chairman (1991) with special interest in Paints, Finance and Management Services. In 1993 Mr. Quershi lest ICI to join Forbes Cambell & Co as CEO and successfully managed this company till his retirement in 1995. Presently Mr. Quershi works as advisor to various chemical industry companies. He is a former President of Management Association of Pakistan and Vice President of Pakistan golf Federation.

Mr. Feroz Rizvi
Mr. Rizvi qualified as a Chartered Accountant from England and Wales. He is Chief Financial Officer in ICI Pakistan Limited.  His responsibilities include long-term financial planning, investor relations, risk management, corporate governance, succession planning of senior finance staff, medium and long-term financial and corporate strategies and acting as a liaison with the company’s principal shareholder, ICI Plc UK. He possesses over 27 years of extensive experience at various senior management capacities both locally and at international levels. He is a Chairman/Member on the panel of Alternate Dispute Resolution Under Section 47-A of The Sales Tax Act 1990.

Mr. Syed Majid Ali
Mr. Ali has over 18 years of diversified and progressively responsible experience through managing accounting and finance related responsibilities interlaced with IT and HR activities. Mr. Ali has worked in local and regional banks, having varying infrastructure and control environment. He has served as Chief Financial Officer for over 11 years in Saudi Pak Commercial Bank Ltd. and Emirates Bank International PJSC. He had been affiliated with KPMG at various positions for 8 years before he proceeded to become the Director and eventually a Partner in 2005. He is a fellow member of the institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and a member of Income Tax Bar Association.

MANAGEMENT

Mr. Salman Haider Sheikh – Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Haider has over 12 years of international experience of asset management and investment banking.  He has held various securities licenses including Series-7 (General Securities Representative) and Series-63 (Uniform Securities Agent Law) issued by the National Association of Securities Dealers, (NASD) New York. He has also passed course examinations for Series-3 (Futures & Commodities) and Series-24 (General Securities Principal) and Life & Health Insurance licenses. He has participated in a six-month course on financial systems, risk management, analysis of financial products, marketing strategy and compliance at Wachovia Bank, USA.

He has managed large investment portfolios for both retail and institutional clients on the equity and fixed income side. Mr. Haider participated as a team member in venture capital / Private equity and investment banking transactions of over $1 billion. His work experience includes positions in the USA at Merrill Lynch, Janney Montgomery & Scott and Wachovia Bank. Mr. Haider holds a post-graduate certificate in "Executive Leadership" from CORNELL UNIVERSITY. He holds an MBA from RUTGERS UNIVERSITY with concentration in Finance. He holds bachelors in Finance from the same institution.

Tahir Sohail – Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Tahir Sohail is a senior banker with over 22 years of broad base banking experience with leading multinational banks like Citibank and Deutsche Bank. He has worked in increasingly responsible position within corporate, consumer and private banking businesses both within and outside Pakistan and was instrumental in implementing a credit scoring model for credit cards acquisition in Pakistan during his Citibank tenor. In Deutsche Bank, Tahir was actively involved in developing wealth management products at Asia Pacific regional level.

Mr. M. Siddique Memon - Company Secretary
Mr. M. Siddique Memon is M.A., L.L.B., a Corporate Lawyer and possesses more than 29 years sound experience as Corporate Lawyer and Company Secretary, including 12 years as General Manager (Legal and Corporate Affairs) with Lakson Group of Companies and 11 years with Faysal Bank Limited as its Company Secretary and Legal Advisor. He is Company Secretary of Faysal Asset Management Limited (FAML) since the company was incorporated in August 2003.

Syed Adeel Hussain - Head of Risk Management
Mr. Hussain holds a postgraduate degree in Finance (MBA) from Coventry University, West Midlands United Kingdom. Mr. Hussain has over 4 years of specialized professional experience in and field of Investment Risk Management. He has worked across various arms of the financial services industry as a risk manager, which includes conventional & Islamic banks and AMC’s. Before joining Faysal Asset Management Limited he was heading the Risk Management Department at Dawood Islamic Bank Limited (DIBL). Apart from professional expertise in the area of financial risk management, he has also taught Microeconomics, Portfolio Management & Derivatives at various leading universities of the country at the post graduate level such as SZABIST & MAJU as a member of the adjunct faculty.

Mr. Omar Ehtisham Anwar - Fund Manager
Mr. Omar Ehtisham Anwar has almost three years of experience in equity markets. He is a graduate of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and holds a BSC (Honors) degree in Computer Science. Previously, Mr. Anwar was working for Alfalah Securities a subsidiary of Bank Alfalah in the Institutional Sales Group. His responsibilities included dealing with individual, institutional and foreign clients, guiding clients on their investment options by keeping abreast with market conditions, meeting market deadlines and risk assessment. He was also responsible for providing business and technical support and initiating new product ideas.

Mr. Ayaz Mustafa Zuberi - Fund Manager (FIGF and FSGF)
Mr. Ayaz Mustafa Zuberi has over twelve years of experience in financial sector. He was on the Board of Directors of three Securitization Companies in Pakistan. Mr. Zuberi was also the Chief Dealer in Treasury at ORIX Investment Bank Pakistan Limited and prior to joining FAML he was serving as Manager Islamic Funds at UBL Fund Managers Limited. Mr. Zuberi holds Masters in Business Administration from American University of Hawaii and also a Certified Fraud Examiner from ACFE, Austin, USA. He has also done one year Post Graduate Diploma in Islamic Banking & Finance from Centre for Islamic Economics (Darul-Uloom) Karachi.