Ahsan M. Saleem is a TCF Co-Founder and the current Board Chairman with over 40 years of extensive experience managing and steering diverse business operations across multiple industries. He is also the Group Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Steel & Allied Products Ltd., a Trustee of COMMECS Education Trust and has previously served as Board Chairman of Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and as Trustee of Habib Education Trust. As a founding member of the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP), Mr. Saleem actively participates on its Board and chairs the Resource Development & Communication Strategy Committee.

Adnan Asdar Ali is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Multinet Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. and AAA Partnership (Pvt.) Ltd. Over the past 37 years, he has developed rich and progressively diverse experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, leadership, management and research. Apart from his corporate engagements, Mr. Ali serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations, including The Indus Hospital, The Hunar Foundation, Karachi Relief Trust, Progressive Education Network and Sabaq.

Dr. Asyia Kazmi is the Global Education Policy Lead and member of the AI taskforce at the Gates Foundation. She focuses on effective instructional practices, edtech and AI, and leads on the South Asia work. A proud mathematics teacher, she has worked at the UK’s department for Education and Department for International Development and was a Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector in OFSTED. Dr. Kazmi was awarded an OBE by the Queen in 2022 for services to education.

Imtiaz Sultanali Dossa has been a supporter of TCF since its inception and has supported female education since before then. He also serves as a trustee of TCF-UK. He is a Chartered Accountant and ran a trading company which he sold in 2005. Mr. Dossa was a trustee until 2010 of an international eye charity that helped set up LRBT in Pakistan.

Mushtaq K. Chhapra is a TCF Co-Founder and serves as a director at several companies. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee at the Patients’ Aid Foundation and also contributes his expertise to the Board of The Kidney Centre and the Institute of Business Administration. Recognised for his entrepreneurial contributions, Mr. Chhapra was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2017.

Munis Abdullah is the CEO of IBL Group, which includes Searle Pakistan Ltd. and Habitt among other prominent companies. His dynamic career has included exposure to the advertising industry, a stint at Procter & Gamble, and key leadership roles across the IBL Group. As CEO of Habitt, Mr. Abdullah stewarded the company’s transformation into a vertically integrated manufacturing and retailing lifestyle concept and he is currently leading an organisational transformation at IBL Group to accelerate growth for the future. Mr. Abdullah graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with an overall distinction. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture and is a member of the Italian Development Committee.

Navid Fazil, a Founding Director and CEO of Interloop Ltd., has been instrumental in transforming the company into one of the world’s largest hosiery manufacturers and a Full Family Clothing supplier for top international brands and retailers. An electrical engineer by training with a Masters in Management from Oxford, Mr. Fazil puts great emphasis on lean manufacturing, research & innovation, and sustainability. He has championed diversity, equity & inclusion at his own company and is actively involved with the global Champions of Change Coalition.

Roqaiya Riaz is a dedicated advocate for education and the arts, actively contributing to TCF’s mission through her participation in TCF’s Baghbaan and Rahbar volunteer programmes since 2008. Beyond her philanthropic efforts, she has been a prominent member of Grips Theater Pakistan since the early 2000s, using performance art to inspire empathy and drive social change.

Riyaz Chinoy is a seasoned Industrial Engineer from Case Western Reserve University, USA with over three decades of leadership experience in Pakistan’s industrial manufacturing sector. He is the Managing Director of Yaqin Steel Ltd. and currently serves on the boards of several leading companies. Deeply committed to social development, Mr. Chinoy is also on the boards of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Orange Tree Foundation and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Pakistan. He is a certified Independent Director from (PICG) and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Pakistan.

Shahbaz Yasin Malik is the President and CEO of Hilton Pharma, one of Pakistan’s leading pharmaceutical enterprises, in addition to other group companies operating in multiple sectors of the economy across Pakistan, UAE, Singapore and the UK. Beyond his corporate engagements, Mr. Malik also serves on the board of Habib University Foundation. He has championed the cause of expanding access to quality healthcare through The Indus Hospital and Patients’ Aid Foundation, as well as initiatives such as the ‘Roshni Say Zindagi’ project, aiming to provide solar energy to 10,000 rural households.

Saadia Awan is a Director at TCS, Pakistan’s leading courier and logistics company and has played a key role at developing the corporation over the years. She has been at the forefront of voluntary efforts for TCF since its inception, particularly in terms of mobilising the Supporters of TCF group and TCF’s fundraising efforts in Canada. As a PICG Certified Company Director, Mrs. Awan combines her corporate responsibilities with active social service.

Yasmeen Nageeb Basir’s experience in the education sector impressed upon her the importance of children’s education. She has been deeply involved with volunteering for TCF since the early 2000s and is responsible conceptualising and leading TCF’s popular ‘Obhartay Sitaray’ programme – a fundraising initiative that has nurtured the artistic potential of a new generation of young Pakistani singers. Additionally, in 2022, she launched a medical charity for cardiac patients at the Kidney Centre in Karachi.

Zia Akhter Abbas is the President and CEO of TCF. Joining TCF in 2014, Mr. Abbas led TCF’s global resource mobilisation efforts for 10 years, serving a movement of thousands of committed volunteers across 14 countries. During this period, he led the development and implementation of TCF’s global governance framework, stewarded TCF’s Government Partnership Schools network through a transformation in learning outcomes and facilitated the development of TCF’s Strategy 2030. He also served as a board member for the Global Schools Forum. Prior to joining TCF, Mr. Abbas spent 17 years in senior business and risk management roles at Citi and Standard Chartered and served as a director for 1-Link – Pakistan’s leading payments switch. He holds an MBA degree from LUMS.