Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board of Directors

    • Mr. Akbarali Pesnani

Mr. Akbarali Pesnani is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), a Fellow Cost and Management Accountant (FCMA) and an MBA. He has a vast experience in Accounts and Finance. He serves on the Boards of various prestigious organisations. Mr. Pesnani has a long association with Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), currently holds a senior level position in this organisation.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Cherat Cement Company Limited
    • Cherat Packaging Limited
    • Pakistan Cables Limited
    • Aga Khan Cultural Services Pakistan Limited
Managing Director & Chief Executive

    • Mr. Hassan Khan

Mr. Hassan Khan is an Engineer with MBA degree. He has over 21 years of diversified experience of the financial sector in Pakistan. Mr. Khan has worked for premium institutions of the country, such as HBL, Central Depository Company and Atlas group amongst others. Before joining Jubilee General as the Executive Director, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan’s largest institutional investment advisory firm (NBFC) in terms of assets under advisory. He was elevated to the Managing Director and CEO of the Company on 1 January 2020.

Other Directorship includes:

    • Jubilee Kyrgyzstan Insurance Company (CJSC)
Directors

    • Mr. John Joseph Metcalf

Mr. John Joseph Metcalf is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of UK and a senior insurance professional with extensive international experience in managing insurance companies. He is responsible for the development of strategy for the insurance business of AKFED, including management oversight as director on the Board of all AKFED investments in the insurance sector spread in 5 countries in Africa and Pakistan.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Jubilee Life Insurance Company Limited
    • Jubilee Holdings Limited Kenya
    • Jubilee Health Insurance Co. Limited, Kenya
    • Jubilee Health Insurance Co. of Tanzania Limited
    • The Jubilee Insurance Co. of Mauritius Limited
    • The Jubilee Investments Co. Limited, Uganda
    • Jubilee Kyrgyzstan Insurance Company (CJSC)
    • Jubilee Life Insurance Co., Uganda
    • Jubilee Life Insurance Co., Burundi
    • Jubilee Life Insurance Co., Tanzania
    • Jubilee Life Insurance Company Of Kenya, Limited

    • Mr. Amin A. Hashwani

Mr. Amin A. Hashwani belongs to a well-known business family of Pakistan. He has headed numerous business and non-business organizations, including, Pakistan India CEOs’ Business Forum, Young Presidents’ Organisation, The Network of Organisations Working for People with Disability and AIESEC, Pakistan. He is the recipient of several national and international awards for his work, including an Honorary Doctorate from USA.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Hassan Ali Rice Export Company Limited
    • Landmark Spinning Industries Limited
    • Hassan Ali & Co. (Cotton) (Pvt) Limited
    • Coronet Enterprises (Pvt) Limited
    • Ittehad Cement Industries Limited
    • Hashwani Construction Company (Pvt) Limited
    • Beaumont Enterprise (Pvt) Limited
    • Marvel Enterprises (Pvt) Limited
    • Stonyx (Pvt) Limited
    • Wholesome Foods (Pvt) Ltd
    • Zappone Systems (Pvt) Limited
    • Micro Grind Minerals
    • Tech4 Life Pakistan

    • Mr. Riyaz Ali Towfiq Chinoy

Mr. Riyaz Ali Towfiq Chinoy is a qualified Industrial Engineer and has obtained B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, from Case Western Reserve University, USA. He has extensive experince in large scale industrial manufacturing from production, operations, supply chain, quality management systems and projects. He is the Managing Director of Yaqin Steel Limited, a startup company and also a Trustee of The Patrons of Expo 2020, The Water Foundation as well as on the Advisory Board of The Citizen Foundation (TCF) and on the Board of Governors of Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture. He has served as Chairman of Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG) from 2017-2021 and as a Board Member of Pakistan Business Council.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Magnus Investments Limited.
    • Indus Motor Company Limited.
    • Bulleh Shah Packaging (Private) Limited.
    • Heavy Mechanical Complex.
    • Packages Convertors (Private) Limited.
    • StarchPack (Pvt) Limited.

    • Ms. Nausheen Ahmad

Nausheen Ahmad is a Barrister at Law with over 30 years of law firm and in house counsel experience in various sectors including Oil & Gas, FMCG, Banking and large scale manufacturing. She has served as Company Secretary and Legal Counsel in ICI Pakistan Ltd and HBL (Pakistan’s largest private sector bank). She serves on the Board of Meezan Bank Ltd which is currently the largest Islamic Bank in Pakistan, International Steel Ltd and Jubilee General Insurance Co Ltd. She teaches director certification programmes at IBA and the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance. She is visiting faculty at the Institute of Business Management (IOBM).

She is Lead Counsel at the Legal and Governance Advisory. Her specialty areas are governance, legal compliance, conflict resolution, strategic thinking and communication.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Cresent Steel And Allied Products Limited
    • CCL Pharmaceuticals (Private) Limited
    • Engro Powergen Qadirpur Limited
    • Descon Engineering Limited
    • 1 Link (Pvt) Limited

    • Mr. Abrar Ahmed Mir

Mr. Abrar Ahmed Mir is an engineer and MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. He has extensive experience in ecommerce, fintech and innovative financial products. He is currently working as Chief Information and Transformation Officer at Habib Bank Limited.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • HBL Microfinance Bank
    • 1Link (Pvt) Limited
    • HBL Asset Management Company Limited

    • Mr. Mohammad Akhtar Bawany

Mr. M. Akhtar Bawany is a business graduate and fellow member of the Institute of Corporate Secretaries of Pakistan and Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Pakistan. He is vice chairman of Pakistan Services Limited and also director on the Board of different companies of Hashoo Group. He has been associated with the Hashoo Group for more than three decades.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Hotel One (Private) Limited
    • Pearl Tours & Travels (Private) Limited
    • City Properties (Private) Limited
    • Elite Properties (Private) Limited
    • Karakorum Hotels & Resorts (Private) Limited
    • Zaver Chemicals Limited
    • Pearl Continental Air (Private) Limited

    • Ms. Ava Ardeshir Cowasjee

Ms. Ava Ardeshir Cowasjee is a prominent person in the shipping industry of Pakistan. She has been the Chairperson of Pakistan Ships Agents Association ‘PSAA’ having already served PSAA for ten years as a Managing Committee Member.
She pursued Management training at Hyde Park Hotel, London, Intercontinental Hotel, Karachi, and got her diploma in Hotel Management from the Ecole Hotelier, Switzerland.
She became Partner of Cowasjee Group of Companies and has served for 39 years. She is a trustee in Cowasjee Foundation and member on the Boards of Syndicate & Senate NED University of Science and Technology and SOS Technical Training Institute.

Other Corporate Directorships include:

    • Cowasjee & Sons.
    • Orbiter.
    • Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited.
    • HBL Asset Management Company Limited.
    • General Shipping Agencies (Pvt) Limited.
    • Quality Schools Foundation.
    • Pakistan National Shipping Corporation.