EDAS – Entrepreneurship Development and Advisory Services

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Almas Hyder

Director EDAS
Imtiaz Khalid

Director EDAS
Mr.Rafiq Jaffer

Director EDAS
Mr. Uzair Ahson

Director EDAS
Ms. Sana Jalil Mela

Program Coordinator

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Almas Hyder

Director EDAS

Mr. Almas Hyder, CEO, SPEL Group is a renowned entrepreneur. He has setup several companies manufacturing packaging and engineering products, as well as trading companies. The companies have developed technologies for parts of auto and off road vehicles, which are finding markets both locally and in the first world. Mr. Hyder has also served many public organizations at senior positions, including: Senior Vice President, Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry; CEO, Engineering Development Board, GoP; Founder Chairman, Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company; Chairman, Steering Committee for Engineering Vision 2012; Chairman, TQM Bureau; first President of Quaid-e-Azam Industrial Estate Board; Chairman, Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Centre. He is on the Board of many public bodies, including SMEDA; Punjab Skill Development Fund (PSDF); TEVTA, GoPunjab; National Transmission and Dispatch Company, PIDC; Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company; National Steering Committee on TQM & Productivity, Planning Commission of Pakistan; Federal Export Board; Advisory Council of the Ministry of Commerce. He is also on the Board of a number of public academic institutions, including Academic Council of GC University, Lahore, Advanced Studies & Research Board, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. He is a Certified Entrepreneurship Development consultant and has conducted several programs on Entrepreneurship Development.

Imtiaz Khalid

Director EDAS

Mr. M. Imtiaz Khalid, CEO Petrotech Intl, CEO Multitek Marketing & Services, CEO MF
Batteries, has over 30 years of business management, consulting and training experience. He
has started and expanded several companies in Pakistan and the Middle East. His area of
business expertise includes overall management, planning, coordination and marketing. He
has in-depth understanding of the working of the private sector, government, donors and
international development agencies by virtue of extensive working experience with these
organizations. He is a skilled and experienced trainer and facilitator with skills in training
needs assessment, program design, material development, conducting / evaluating training,
training of trainer and training methodology. He has well developed knowledge and skills in
the areas of entrepreneurship development, project formulations, enterprise development and
income generation / micro enterprise development. He is a Certified Human Systems
Development consultant and a Certified Entrepreneurship Development consultant. He is
professionally trained in Inland and Foreign Exchange Banking and his Academic
qualifications include postgraduate studies in Economics.

Mr.Rafiq Jaffer

Director EDAS

Mr.Rafiq Jaffer, Director, Institute of Social Sciences (established in 1978), and Director,
EDAS, is a research, training, planning, management, monitoring and evaluation consultant
and author in the field of human resource and organizational development. He has conducted
research, trainings, evaluations, and workshops with over 9000 staff of over 10 UN agencies,

more than 20 multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors, over 20 government ministries and
departments, more than 300 national and 50 international NGOs, in Pakistan, India,
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and South Africa.
He has written 4 books and over 250 research and workshop reports, papers and training
manuals, many of which have been published in Pakistan, USA, UK, Canada, Norway, and
the Netherlands. He has trained hundreds of micro, small and medium level entrepreneurs in
Pakistan. He was actively involved in developing the curriculum and materials and delivering
the Kamyab Karobar Micro-Entrepreneurship Program, which has been used to train
hundreds of entrepreneurs in Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar, in partnership with National
Incubation Center (formerly LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship), Citi Group, British Asian
Trust, Karandaaz, UKAID, and the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Mr. Uzair Ahson

Director EDAS

Mr. Uzair Ahson, Faculty Member (Assistant Professor since 2008), Department of Economics, GC University, Lahore is a Resource Person and Lead Trainer for various Entrepreneurship Development workshops. He is a Lead Trainer in Entrepreneurship Training Workshop organised by TEVTA Punjab and a resource person in ‘Enterprise Growth Skills: An Application of Strategic Management Process for Entrepreneurs’ under GCU Lahore and Cranfield University, UK. He has been a resource person in a series of workshops on ‘Building Sustainable Research Networks’ under HEC Islamabad and British Council Pakistan. He has published journal articles for the SME sector and has been a regular contributor in The Daily Nation regarding the development of SMEs and the role they play in economic development. He has also co-authored conference papers regarding innovation and revolution in various SME Clusters. As a consultant he has contributed in some major World Bank Projects regarding the trade and development of specific SME clusters.

Ms. Sana Jalil Mela

Program Coordinator

Ms. Sana Jalil Mela, is the founder of www.perspective.pk, an upcoming media portal for
Pakistan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. She is an Entrepreneurship Development Consultant
and has been contributing in development of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, through
communications, research and consultancy. She is a certified trainer for the Business Edge
Program of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for the development of the SME
sector and an Alumnus of the Social Entrepreneurship Program at INSEAD. Sana has worked
with the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) to promote indigenous and women
entrepreneurship in Kalash, Pakistan, where her work was featured in ICSB 2011 Summit at
Sweden, and in academic institutes in Turkey. She has also played a key role in launching the
Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum in Pakistan. She was involved in setting up the
Entrepreneurship and Incubation Development Centre at the Lahore School of Economics and
Institute for Business Administration, Sukkur.

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