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Mr. Agha Ahmed Shah
Managing Director
Pak Oman Investment Company Limited

Mr. Agha Ahmed Shah has over 25 years of banking experience in the field of Corporate & Investment Banking and Risk Management. He started his banking career with American Express Bank Limited where he also attended a one year intensive program at the bank’s head office in New York. He has also worked in ANZ Grindlays Bank Ltd in Karachi as Senior Manager Corporate Banking and was responsible for the Multinational and Public Sector Groups.

In MCB Bank Limited, Mr. Shah worked as Head of Corporate South, Head of Investment Banking and Head of Risk Management. He prepared the Credit and Risk Manual of MCB Bank Limited and was responsible for restructuring of the Corporate and Investment Bank to bring it in line with the emerging challenges faced by the bank. His last job was as Chief Executive Officer of MCB Financial Services Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of MCB Bank Ltd.

Mr. Hasan A. Bilgrami
President & CEO
BankIslami Pakistan Limited

Mr. Hasan A Bilgrami's association with the BankIslami started as a consultant to the sponsoring shareholders right at the inception of the project where he was responsible for developing the business plan, arranging permissions, staffing and capital raising. Previously he worked as the Head of Asset Management with the National Investment Trust (NIT), as Country Manager Consumer Banking & Corporate Business with Gulf Commercial Bank, as General Manager Corporate Finance with ORIX Investment Bank and as Director and Head of Corporate Finance with Khalid Majid Husain Rahman, then a member firm of Deloitte & Touche.

Mr. Bilgrami has hands on experience in structuring Islamic modes of financing while he worked as a Secretary of the Financial Instruments Committee of the Islamic Finance Commission. His specific task was development of model financial instruments that could be used by the financial services industry in Pakistan. The scope of work not only included both asset and liability side products, but also included areas such as risk management and capital adequacy. Model agreements were also part of the mandate. His work of model agreements has been approved by the Shariah Board of the State Bank of Pakistan and have become the industry standard.