Chairman/Director, Miss. Fauzia Husain Qureshi

Fauzia Husain CEO & President Fauzia Husain is the President of ICOMOS Pakistan.Fauzia H.Qureshi received a Bachelors of Architecture with a first class first gold medal from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in 1975 and a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge USA in 1980. She has been Director/Principal Architect of Unicon Consulting (Pvt) Ltd. one of the leading A/E consultancies of Pakistan. She is currently Director of FHQ & Associates (SMC-PVT) Ltd. She has taught for 35 years in the National College of Arts (NCA) and retired as Professor and Principal of National College of Arts in June 2011. She is currently President ICOMOS Pakistan for the term 2017-2020
She has been very active in the women’s movement in Pakistan since 1982 in WAF as well as with other NGO’s and civil society organizations in particular those related to heritage conservation issues. She has also been involved in numerous projects related to community participation in upgrading of katchi abadi’s, and integrated development schemes.
As private consultant she has been engaged in planning, conservation of the environment and more specifically the built heritage and architectural design of educational, institutional, commercial and residential buildings and interior design for over 40 years. She wrote the sector paper on Heritage Conservation for the Pakistan National Conservation Strategy (NCS), 1988 which was adopted as a policy in 1992 by the Government of Pakistan. She has been involved in preparing the Conservation and Management plans for three of the World Heritage sites located in Pakistan –the Lahore Fort (2003), Shalimar Gardens (2006), Rohtas Fort (2006).
She has authored a book ‘Multan: A Spiritual legacy’, documenting the architecture and history of 50 monuments comprising shrines, tombs, mosques, temples, city fort, walls and gates of Multan which was published in December 2013. She has also contributed chapters in numerous international books which include Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade, An Informal Cultural History of the 1970’s, (Edited by N Farrukh, A Gulgee, J McCurry, 2019, OUP), Punjab: Building the Land of Five Rivers (Edited by Abha Nairain Lambah, 2017, Marg Foundation), An Emancipated Place: 2000 Plus Women in Architecture (2000, HECAR Foundation). She has participated and presented innumerable papers in national and international conferences, seminars and courses.

CEO & Director, Mr. Imran Hafeez

At the outset of ongoing financial year, Board of Directors of First Capital Investment Limited (FCIL) appointed Mr. Imran Hafeez in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Hafeez is an action oriented professional with a track record of over 16 years as a business strategist and financial controller. He started his professional career with one of the Big-4 professional services firms in the world, Price waterhouse Coopers, as an article training student and dealt with a diversified client portfolio of multinational and local concerns. He joined the First Capital Group in 2004 and has been responsible for handling overall finance and accounts function of the Real Estate Division of the Group. He was offered a challenging position of Group director Finance for First Capital and Pace Group in 2012. Group was in serious financial crunch and financial institutions were aggressively demanding their repayments. During his term of service as Group Director Finance, he successfully engaged with the financial institutions and negotiated terms for restructuring and settlement of debts worth multi billion rupees. In addition he also successfully formulated and implemented policies for Group restructuring and revival. His services were not only limited in the financial restructuring, but also in the marketing and development phase. He has extensive experience of fund raising, feasibility analysis, pricing architecture, make vs. buy, capital investments, budgeting and cost management, project valuation and prioritization, financial statement analysis and risk management analysis for designing effective risk control mechanism. After successful revival of real estate projects, Mr. Imran has now formulated a comprehensive business plan for business development and growth of the First Capital Investment Limited (FCIL).

Mr. Hafeez is a Commerce graduate &an affiliate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and an associated member of Pakistan Institute of Public Finance Accountants (PIPFA). Moreover, he has attended various courses and seminars conducted by professional and regulatory bodies.With an extensive expertise in the field of finance, restructuring, risk management and marketing, Mr. Imran Hafeez brings with him a versatile skill set, and under his leadership, the FCIL is expected to achieve new heights of progress.

Mr. Shahzad Jawahar

Mr. Jawahar is currently responsible for ensuring overall compliance in First Capital Group to various Laws, Rules and Regulations and Code of Corporate Governance. The compliance function includes listed companies, non-listed and private entities which are part of First Capital Group. His responsibilities include monitoring Corporate and secretarial affairs, Code of Corporate Governance, litigation, Listing regulations and to analyze the impact of changes in laws and implementation of the same in the Group. Mr. Shahzad Jawahar is also involved in all strategic decisions and matters.

Mr. Jawahar also performed services as CEO of First Capital Investments Limited, an Asset Management Company, from July 2012 to June 2016. As a CEO Mr. Jawahar, worked for the renewal of license of Asset Management Company, conversion of First Capital Mutual Fund, from close end scheme to open end scheme and performance wise the fund under management was ranked as second best fund on six months bases.

Mr. Jawahar is qualified as Chartered Secretary, MBA in Accounts & Finance and Certified Director from University of Lahore.

Mr. Adnan Ibrar

Mr. Adnan Ibrar is Results-oriented Cost and Management Accountant (ACMA) with 20+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, corporate finance, taxation, treasury, budgeting, financial planning & analysis, management reporting, costing, internal controls, and ERP transformation.

Extensive leadership experience across power generation, manufacturing, real estate, and technology sectors, with a strong track record of partnering with senior management and cross-functional teams to improve financial performance, strengthen controls, optimize working capital, manage tax exposure, and support strategic business decisions.

Experienced in managing finance functions for large-scale operations and capital projects, including a USD 235 million, 120 MW power project. Strong exposure to NEPRA, CPPA/CPPAG, MEPCO, financial institutions, tax authorities, auditors, insurance brokers, and professional advisors.

Proven ERP transformation experience with Oracle Financials R12 and Microsoft Dynamics 365, including financial-module implementation, process redesign, chart-of-accounts development, reconciliations, parallel runs, testing, user coordination, and go-live.