Management

Aameer Karachiwalla

President/CEO

With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Aameer Karachiwalla is a fellow of  the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and a long-serving Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited. Mr. Karachiwalla was re-appointed the Chief Financial Officer of UBL in July 2016. He joined UBL in 1998 and has previously held the positions of Chief Operating Officer, Chief of Staff and Group Executive Retail Banking at UBL. During this time, he has been instrumental in launching the bank’s branchless banking business, implementing the IT vision of the bank and in developing the bank’s overall restructuring plan which led to its successful privatization. He is also the Chairman of The Board of UBL Insurers Ltd and Director at 1Link. Before joining UBL Mr. Karachiwalla held senior positions at a number of financial institutions and multinationals including American Express Bank, Citicorp Investment Bank and Artal Group of Companies.

Ali Imran Bokhari

Chief Risk Officer

Syed Ali Imran Bokhari is a management executive with diversified experience, of over 19 years, in development and implementation of Compliance and Risk Management Frameworks, development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Financial & Management Consulting Services, Institutional Assessments and Appraisals, Supervision and Administration of Audit & Assurance Services, Financial Reporting, Regulatory Compliance, Corporate Governance, and Restructuring & Business Valuation, including feasibility analysis & share valuation. He is a Certified Expert in Risk Management from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany, a Certified Financial Consultant from Canada and Chartered Accountancy Finalist from Pakistan. He holds membership of Institute of Internal Auditors, USA and Institute of Financial Consultants, USA. He is also an associate member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Aqeel Ahmed

Chief Compliance Officer

Aqeel Ahmed has a diversified progressive experience of over 27+ years in different institutions, multiple departments and in various Leadership roles. His experience covers the key segments/functions like Finance & Accounts, Operations, Internal / External Audits, Risk Management, Taxation and Corporate Affairs. He has been part of the founding team of Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL) and played a pivotal role in establishing the Compliance function of KMBL. Before joining KMBL, he completed his Chartered Accountants (CA) Articleship under the byelaws of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan with “Tariq Ayub Anwar & Co. CAs Islamabad)”. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration - Finance.   

Atif Aziz Ahmed

Chief Information Officer

Atif Aziz Ahmed brings 25+ years of diverse, local as well as International technology experience with him. Prior to Khushhali Microfinance Bank, Atif headed the technology division at Tameer Micro Finance Bank for four and a half years where his areas of influence included technology strategy, operations and project deployments. He has also worked at well-renowned stock brokerage firms in Pakistan including KASB Securities and AKD Securities, where he lead the Information Technology teams. He started his career in 1993 from IBM Pakistan, where he worked as a systems engineer for two years before leaving for Canada and then US to work at AT&T Research Labs, New Jersey. He came back to Pakistan in January 2000 and worked as a senior project manager at an off-shore software project development company for four years. Atif considers the importance of software programming as well as technology in general in our lives and therefore is an ardent proponent of including computer programming in the curriculum from a very early stage in schools. Atif also likes to teach and has taught at different institutions in Pakistan. These institutions include FAST - NU, ICAP and Karachi Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship (KITE). He is very fond of giving career advice to the youth of Pakistan and has conducted several career-counseling sessions for BBA and MBA students of various institutions as well. Atif holds Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science degrees from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences FAST-NU, Karachi.

Daniyal Haq Awan

Chief Internal Auditor

Daniyal is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan with eleven years of professional experience. His expertise are in External/Internal auditing, Risk Management, Project Management and IFRS Compliance. Daniyal has been associated with Khushhali Microfinance Bank for more than six years. His most recent assignment was in Finance Department where he was engaged in the implementation of CBAS project. Prior to joining KMBL, Daniyal has worked with Askari Bank Limited and A.F. Ferguson & Co. (a member firm of PwC network).

Hammad Haider

Head Operations

Hammad Haider has over 25 years of experience with the country’s leading Commercial & Microfinance banks, including International Banking. He progressed through a learning curve encompassing diversified banking domains including Branch & Corporate Operations, Credits, Alternate Delivery Channels, Digital Transformation, Core Banking Systems Deployment, Business Process Reengineering, Service Quality, Enterprise Project Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Administration and Operational Risk Management. His banking career started at Emirates Bank International in 1996. Prior to joining KMBL, he was Head-Alternate Delivery Channels at Allied Bank. His key projects over the past 7 years in KMBL include Corporate Office relocation, T24 (CBAS) implementation and CBAS functional support set up, and MPG/RAAST deployment. His earlier hands on experience on ADCs has been instrumental in Digital Enablement of the bank, entailing IRIS setup, Call Centre, IB & MB, ATMs, Debit Cards, RTGS, Image Based Clearing, Digital Account Opening, CIR RPA; Data Centre relocation, BCP & DR management etc. Having a Master’s in Public Administration with Commerce & Business background, and spearheading above projects Hammad developed a strategic drive for technology-based business transformation. With his experience, attention to detail, pragmatic approach and motivation to delivery - he acts as a strategic advisor and change catalyst in all enterprise level projects, particularly in Digitization, Governance, BPR and Control domains – which remained his key strengths in achieving operational objectives, while also inculcating a culture of governance in KMBL.  

Muhammad Aftab Alam

Chief Business Officer

Mr. Aftab is a retail banking professional. He has over 20 years of progressive experience with Pakistan’s leading microfinance bank and non-bank MF institutions. He possesses extensive hands-on experience in different management positions. In these positions, he has demonstrated his expertise to lead and manage Microfinance, MSME lending, Housing Finance, Consumer Lending and deposits value streams. He excels in business planning, product management, people management and growing distribution networks. In his present role, he is leading the sales and distribution network of Pakistan’s largest microfinance bank - a role in which he led the bank’s efforts to provide best-in-class financial services to the ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ segment as well as MSMEs of the country. He is responsible for developing and executing the bank’s sales & distribution strategy. He has to develop, drive & achieve bank’s Financial and Nonfinancial business targets for profitable growth.  Mr. Alam serves as an active member of a number of SBP sub-committees & special groups on financial inclusion, microfinance, SME, Agriculture and Housing. He has attended the Boulder Microfinance program (Turin, Italy) and the Frankfurt School of Business and Finance (Frankfurt, Germany). Mr. Aftab has a Master’s degree in Business Administration – Finance.      

Nabeel Saeed

Head of Brands and Communications

A story teller by heart, solutions expert, Nabeel Saeed brings with him 20+ years of diversified marketing & communication experience working for a variety of prestigious companies in Cambodia, Qatar, Pakistan and USA.  Serving FMCG, Real Estate, Telecom, Oil & Gas, IT industry and Banking, prior to joining Khushhali Microfinance Bank, he was heading the Marketing function at Cynosure Solutions based in the United States. From working on a prestigious Colors of Venice project in Qatar to participating in the Annual Billionaire’s conference in Moscow, Nabeel has had the pleasure of working with multi-cultural societies and working with people from across the globe and partnered relationships for life. He holds a Bachelor (Hons.) & Master degree in Business Administration from Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences, Hamdard University, Karachi.

Saira Gabol

Chief Human Resources Officer

Saira is a senior HR professional with over 15 years of experience in Pakistan, the Middle East and the United Kingdom, and has worked with business leaders across diverse cultures and backgrounds to deliver results for their teams. Saira has experience in leading the HR function in the microfinance industry, for an international MFB and has also been part of the HR team for large commercial banks including HBL and HSBC. Saira previously worked at a regional level for one of the world's largest multinationals, with offices in 80 territories. Saira holds a Master's Degree in Human Resource Development with distinction from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Saleem Akhtar Bhatti

Group Head Finance & CFO

Saleem Akhtar Bhatti is a finance expert with more than 25 years of industry experience. Saleem joined Khushhali Microfinance Bank in 2001. Prior to KMBL, Saleem held various management positions providing leadership and strategic direction in the finance & accounting functions through financial strategy, planning, financial and management accounting, budgeting, tax planning, defining financial policies and controls.