Short Profile; Wing Commander Inayat Ali Shah (Retd) Director of Projects, Trojans

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Wing Commander Inayat Ali Shah (Retd) is an avionics graduate of the Pakistan Air Force College of Aeronautical Engineering.  He holds an extensive experience in the field of R&D.  His specialized skills and expertise include Electronic Warfare, Avionics Integration, Lasers & Optics, Tracking and Guidance Systems, Software Engineering, Geographical Information Systems, Satellite Navigation Systems and C4I systems guarda ora. He is currently Director of Projects in Trojans and has been Lead designer of many R&D projects, including the modernization of Long Range Radars, a Tactical Mission Management C4I system for armoured formations, explosive reactive armour for tanks, a static popup target training system for small arms, a main battle tanks fire control system as well as a host of specialized Mil-Spec computational systems and consoles.

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Mr. Rizwan Ahmed, Executive Director Metaline Industries

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Director with a demonstrated history of working in the automotive industry. Skilled in communication, team building, management, lean manufacturing, and Japanese business culture. Strong business development professional with a Masters in Organization Management focused in Business Administration, Management and Operations from University of New South Wales (Sydney).

Joined Metaline in July 2018, as a Supply Chain Executive, working in Imports and streamlining purchases, and generating production schedules; further looking into customer co-ordination and planning, growing to fields of accounts, Audit and Banking finance, managing company cash flows and expanding into new business fields with a new found mission to enter into the export markets, while enhancing company’s green digital foot print.

Achievements:

–   Reducing purchase costs by 15% through competitive costing and pricing comparisons catalunyafarm.com.

–   Effectively reducing overall capital finance requirement and saving 8% in finance costs to the company.

–   Negotiating new finance lines for increased imports volume and company expansions.

–   Deployment and Upgradation of MS GP (MRP) enterprise.

–   Internal and External Costing along with Customer Negotiations.

–   Changing Company Outlook on Digital Footprints.

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Short Profile of Imtiaz Ali Rastgar

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Founder and Chairman of Rastgar Group, is a manufacturing specialist and a consultant for Marketing and Exports. As one of the best known entrepreneurs, he served as a board member of several government organizations e.g. Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry, PAAPAM (Pakistan Association of Automobile Parts & Accessories Manufacturers), QPSP (Quality & Productivity Society of Pakistan), Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, PFA (Pakistan Foundry Association), TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Islamabad Chapter. He also headed the Engineering Development Board under the Federal Ministry of Industries and Production, where he formulated the Automotive Industry Development Program.  He is convener Pakistan Aerospace Council.

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Short Profile of Dr. Naveed Iftikhar

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Dr Naveed Iftikhar has been working with the public sector, academia, research centers, and international development organizations for almost two decades.  His current research and policy work focuses on entrepreneurship, public sector governance, public-private partnerships, and cities.

He advises several public-sector organizations in Pakistan for formulating and evaluating strategies and economic policies. He has taught economics, management, public policy, and urban economics courses in various universities and civil service training institutions. He contributes regularly to journals, conferences and newspapers. He holds an M.Phil. in Economics and a PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration.

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Short Profile of Mr Shoaib Farooqui

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Short Profile of Dr. Yasir Nawab, PhD

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A PhD in Mechanical Engineering with focus on composite materials from Université de Nantes France, have experience of working with known European industrial groups dealing with composite materials and ONERA (The French Aerospace Lab).  Worked as Chairperson DICE Textile, Pakistan from 2015 to 2019. Founding Director, National Center for Composite Materials, NTU.  A fellow of the Textile Institute UK, member Government of Pakistan’s sub-working group on CPEC (Textiles), national and several international professional bodies.  He has been awarded with HEC’s Best University Teacher Award 2017 and Dice Leadership Award, 2018.  He is Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, National Textile University, Faisalabad and doing research on 2D, 3D textile fabrics, finite element analysis and composite materials znajdź więcej informacji.

Masood Qureshi

Short Profile of Mr. Masood Latif Qureshi; Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Aero Engine Craft (Pvt) Ltd

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Mr. Masood Latif Qureshi, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Aero Engine Craft (Pvt) Ltd is the inventor of the contrail-free aero-engine.  He has a Master’s degree in Physics and Electronics Engineering.  He has over 45 years of scientific research experience in UK and Pakistan.  He has a multidisciplinary expertise in a number of engineering fields primarily electronic control systems, instrumentation, communications, automotive, aerospace, mechanical and manufacturing engineering. Successful products developed by him over the years include electron beam particle accelerator, C-Band antennae, intruder detection security system, plastic injection processing, machine tool design, paper width detector for paper mills, ionization probe for IC engines, camera jig, injection moulding controller, beam change controller and CNC machines controller.

His present work is focused on the development and prototyping of an indigenous jet engine, a 600 cc two cylinder piston engine, a drone engine, an environment friendly contrail-free aero engine, and a 1000 cc elliptic rotary vane engine.  Mr. Masood co-authored a postgraduate textbook on Chemistry Electro-cyclic Reactions published by Wiley VCH and has been coding software. He works with a unique combination of art, design and engineering and has over 10 inventions in the aerospace, automotive and electronics domain.  He is an accomplished artist and avidly paints landscapes in watercolor.  He has always been a keen explorer and has traveled to 54 countries in the world.

Dr Sarah Qureshi

Short Profile of Dr. Sarah Qureshi; Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Aero Engine Craft (Pvt) Ltd

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Dr. Sarah Qureshi is working on contrail-free aero engines as the CEO and founding director of Aero Engine Craft (Pvt) Ltd. She is also a visiting Academic at the School of Aerospace at Cranfield University where she provides technical feedback on research on environmentally safe aircraft engines. Sarah has a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from Cranfield University, UK. Her area of specialization is Aerospace Propulsion whereby she researched on the design of a contrail-free aero-engine . During her initial PhD research, Sarah assisted the inventor with patenting the contrail-free aero-engine. The invention has been granted two international patents and has a tremendous potential in bringing about an environmental revolution in the context of aviation. Dr. Sarah Qureshi , along with the inventor of technology Mr. Masood Latif Qureshi has now set up Aero Engine Craft (Private) Limited, to convert this technology into a full scale commercial  application ready to be used by modern civil transport aircraft.  During her PhD, Sarah supervised  MSc. students for their research projects on Jet Engine Technology. Prior to this, Sarah completed her master’s degree in the field of Aerospace Dynamics from Cranfield University, UK. Her research involved the design of a trajectory following autopilot for unmanned aircraft (UAVs) flying in close formation for the purpose of air to air refuelling.  Prior to post-graduate studies, Sarah graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, NUST Pakistan, and gained extensive experience of working in the local automotive and engineering industry. Sarah holds a Private Pilot License (PPL) with 70 hours of Flying Experience. She has also learned acrobatic flying and several flight manoeuvres while at Cranfield.

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Dr. Haroon J Qureshi, President Pakistan Aerospace Council

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A technology focused and diversified 43 years of engineering, technical management and entrepreneurial experience in diverse fields that include professional & defence electronic technologies. Of these the last 38 years as founder, hands-on-CEO and Managing Director of companies that he co-founded. He has been often involved in cutting edge technologies; segment leadership and business entrepreneurship.

He is MSEE SJSU, CA, and a PhD ISU ID, USA. Worked for organizations in Pakistan and USA, before taking the entrepreneurial plunge.

He is CEO and owner of East West Infiniti (Pvt) Ltd; locally designing, engineering, and producing electronic technologies for the professional, military, and industrial markets in Pakistan and the International marketplace, having customers, besides Pakistan, in Saudi Arabia, USA, Columbia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Oman, Kenya, Libya, Egypt, Myanmar and counting.

He is skilled and experienced to integrate avionics equipment in Military and General Aviation aircraft. Designing and integrating Glass Cockpits in Super Mushak Aircraft manufactured by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.

Travelled extensively for education, business and technology induction to four continents, including Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Turkey, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, USA, Canada, New Zealand, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Often been involved as a project advisor/consultant to engineering student projects at UET, GIKI, FAST, NUST, COMSATS etc. Presented several papers at international seminars on defense and electronics; member of HEC IRC steering committee. Interviewed on main stream Television on subjects like UAVs, military electronic technologies & entrepreneurial landscape.

President Pakistan Aerospace Council
Member Industry National Centre of Robotics and Automation
Charter Member OPEN Islamabad
Member Corporate Advisory Council – NUST
Charter Member TiE Islamabad
Ex-Member Corporate Advisory Council SEECS – NUST
Ex-Member ExCom IEEE Islamabad Chapter
Ex-Member Board of Pakistan Standards Institute (Electronic Chapter).
Technical Speaker at various high tech platforms in Pakistan.
Speaker and advisor to NED, UET Lahore, NUST, FAST and GIKI etc.
Professional Engineer PEC, Pakistan Engineering Council.
Member IEEE Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers. Member AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Member ARRL American Radio Relay League
Member AMSAT Amateur Satellite Corp Member RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain
Pakistan Amateur Radio Society licensed as AP2HJ

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Dr. Arshad Ali

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Dr. Arshad completed PhD studies in Electrical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, USA in 1992. His academic association spreads over 35 years of teaching/research at institutions of national repute. He served as Executive Director HEC, Rector National Textile University Faisalabad and also established Systems Research Institute at Rawalpindi, Hamdard University Faisalabad Campus, and NUST Institute of IT Rawalpindi/Islamabad reseña. He spear headed the research team for developing distributed computing applications in collaboration with, Stanford USA, Caltech USA and Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland. This research effort helped NUST in attaining “CMS-CERN Associate Institute” status, a unique distinction for a Pakistani university. His active partnership helped in attracting USD 2.75 Mil NSF Grant through Stanford University USA, Caltech USA, CERN Geneva, Keyung Hee University Seoul Korea and over 12.0 Mil Euro joint research funding with EU Universities from European Union.

In recognition of his services, Govt of Pakistan conferred him with the awards of Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz. He also received Distinguished scientists of the year award from Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS), Gold Medal for IT research from PAS/COMSTECH and President’s gold medal for NUST best researcher of the year.

He is Co-convener Pakistan Aerospace Council (PAeC) and CEO Asian Institute of Industrial Air (AIIA); the only institute in Pakistan offering an advanced level of certified training courses on Industrial Air Engineering, Automation and Production Engineering.

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