BOARD OF ADVISORS

Acting Rector & Dean, KSBL
Associate Professor, Finance & Accounting
PhD, Mississippi State University, USA
CFA, MBA (IBA Karachi)

Dr. Zeeshan is the Acting Rector & Dean and an Associate Professor at KSBL. Prior to joining KSBL, he was heading the undergraduate program at Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS.

Dr. Zeeshan has over 20 years of diverse experience in teaching, training, consulting and research. After completing his MBA from IBA Karachi, he worked as a management consultant with Ferguson Associates, an affiliate firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He completed his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University, US in the discipline of Finance. His two-decade-long experience as an academic comprises teaching and training using a variety of pedagogical techniques (including case method) at top business schools in Pakistan including KSBL, IBA and LUMS. He has also been influential in shaping the curriculum for business education at these schools.

Dr. Zeeshan also serves on the Board of Institute of Financial Markets
Pakistan (IFMP) SECP, CPD Committee of Institute of Chartered
Accountants Pakistan (ICAP) and academic council of IBA Centre for
Excellence in Islamic Finance (CEIF).

Director Digital Products, Telenor Digital, Norway
Strategic Branding Programme, London Business School
MBA, Marketing. Southeastern University- Washington DC

Internationally experienced marketing professional, Mr. Azim has served multiple operational & strategic leadership roles in a career spanning over
20 years with great success.

He launched 2 Telco startups as Head of Marketing, while delivered successful Go2Market/brand strategies for 9 others. Experience includes working with 13 different countries/markets within the area of customer insights, segmentation, marketing strategy & operations and brand/digital product management. In summary. an internationally experienced and successful marketer with a proven track record.

CEO and Vice President, Global Trainings-Timelenders

Yameenuddin Ahmed has been associated with Timelenders since 2004 as one of its key leaders in the area of life-transforming training, coaching,
and counseling. To date, Ahmed has helped thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations in developing worthy and powerful visions and in bringing order, enhancing character, and improving performance in personal and professional living.

Another distinction of Mr. Yameenuddin is his ability to work with families, groups of youth and parents in developing visions for their families and the realization of the same by managing their time effectively to an extent that every single day we spend should take us closer to our visions.

Currently, Ahmed is involved with research on productivity habits for his book “Changing Personal Productivity Paradigms”.

Founder & Partner MaisonConsulting.com
MBA, Institute of Business Management

Sultan Hamdani is a seasoned Business Process Consultant with over two decades of experience in the business application industry and particular expertise in mission-critical computer systems’ including ERP and XRM, business process analysis, strategic management and tactical collaborations.

Sultan is also the founder of MaisonConsulting.com, which was founded in 2004 which within years has now multiple global offices servicing 80 countries across Middle East & Africa.

Sultan holds an MBA from Institute of Business Management, before which he completed his BBA (Hons) from the same university. 

Sultan volunteers to many initiatives including but not limited to Pakistan Children Heart Foundation and Pakistan Software Houses Association.


Programmer at Symantec Inc.
Ms, North Carolina State University- USA
BSc, Lahore University of Management Sciences

An engineering student till grade 12 and an accounting student in the beginning of college, Saad finally gradated as a Computer science major in
2011. At university, he also studied psychology, philosophy and literature, in addition to main computer and math courses. And also did graphic
designing as a hobby. He joined Tellabs as a research engineer. In 2013, he became a Fulbright scholar and went to pursue MS in North Carolina State University.

Currently he works at Symantec Inc, a global leader in network security and is in his first year of Dars e Nizami course. In his free time, he likes to eat out, read, and hang out with friends. He considers himself a student, and as such takes an interest in learning/teaching. He taught Computer Science for the year of 2017 at PAF-KIET.

Assistant Professor , IBA karachi
Ph.D. (Computer Sciences) , Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Work Experience:

  • – Assistant Professor at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jul-2010 to PRESENT)
  • – Faculty Member at Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (Jun-2007 to Apr-2010)
  • – R&D Supervisor at Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (Jun-2003 to Jun-2007)
  • – Coordinator Software Cell at Beaconhouse Informatics Pvt Ltd (Jun-2002 to Jul-2005)
  • – Database Consultant at Softwizard (Jan-2001 to Jan-2004)
  • – Database Administrator at Microsoft Computer Training Centre (Jan-1999 to Dec-2000)

Membership & Affiliations:

  • HEAD ORGANIZER, Head of Organizers InfoSoftCom
  • JURY MEMBER, Jury Member of ProSoftcom 2003