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Syed Jawaid Iqbal
Independent Director
Syed Jawaid Iqbal, President and CEO, CMC (Pvt.) Ltd, began his professional career in 1972 with R:Lintas (now Lowe & Rauf), one of the world's leading advertising agencies. He has over 40 years experience in the communications, publishing and media.
In 1980 he launched Pakistan first full-service PR Agency TWC (now CMC). Affiliated with Ketchum USA. CMC is country's top most agency in image building and perception management sectors.
As a marketing, advertising and public relations practitioner, Jawaid has helped raise professional standards, represented Pakistan at overseas conferences with distinction and helped strengthen forums such as the Advertising Practitioners Guild (as a co-founder) and the Pakistan Advertising Association.
He has represented Pakistan in many regional and international forums. He is also actively associated with a number of social welfare organizations and contributes to leading newspapers, writing on political, social and professional issues as well as international affairs.
As the head of the SouthAsia Forum, he organizes stimulating seminars and conferences on important subjects. He also provides valuable support on a voluntary basis to art education as Chairman of the Central institute of Arts & Crafts, Karachi and to other laudable causes and organizations. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), Gillette Pakistan, Professional Education Foundation (PEF) and Pakistan First Initiative (PFI).
He is the Founding Chairman of the Society for Global Moderation (SGM), a private-sector think tank, dedicated to the promotion of tolerance, inter-faith harmony and democracy.
He was invited by the US Government to a 6 week orientation program "US Foreign Policy in South Asia" in 1990 under the "International Visitors Program - IVP".
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Ghazala Nadeem
Director
Ms. Nadeem is the non-executive director of Gillette Pakistan Limited. She is currently Associate Director Human Resources for Global Development Markets Procter & Gamble International Operations, based in Geneva, Switzerland. She has twenty five years of combined finance and human resources management experience in several local and regional markets. Mrs. Nadeem holds a MBA in Finance from IBA. She joined the Board in 24-Aug-2015.
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Omer Iqbal Awan
Chairman & Director
Mr. Awan is the Chairman and non-executive director of Gillette Pakistan Limited. He is currently Associate Director for Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan Supply Network Operations for Procter & Gamble, and has fifteen years of supply chain, demand, project planning and management experience in several local and regional markets. Mr Awan holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from GIKI. He joined the Board in 2015.
