Muzaffar Ali Shah Bukhari

Director

Muzaffar is the Managing Director of KASB Group. Currently he is involved in restructuring the KASB Bank. He led the efforts for regional expansion and was responsible for setting up the joint venture in Saudi Arabia. He also led negotiations on the minority stake investment of Kansai Paints for KASB.

Prior to KASB, He worked at the Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Banking, New York. He covered asset management companies, banks, stock exchanges and specialty finance companies- and was involved in M&A, IPO, restructuring, equity and debt raising. His transactions include the restructuring of the Mexican Stock Exchange and minority stake sale of Apollo Partners to sovereign wealth funds

He received his Masters in Business Administration from IMD, Switzerland. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Northwestern University, graduated Magna Cum Laude, and is a candidate for CFA Level III. He has attended various courses at prestigious institutions including Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management and Babson College.

Syed Wamiq Abrar Bokhari
Director

Syed Wamiq Bokhari co-founded NHEPL in 2006  with support from KASB Group. He has worked on various projects in 22 countries and across five continents.  He attained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Petroleum Engineering from University of Texas.  He has attended several technical and management courses, including advance management course at Oxford. Wamiq is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Texas, USA.

Wamiq started his career with US based ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company) in US, working with them in the Gulf of Mexico, Permian Basin, Alaska, South America, Yemen, North Sea and Far East.  At ARCO he worked in Operations, Projects, Reservoir Engineering and New Ventures.  His last assignment for ARCO was as New Development Team Leader for Southern North Sea, where his team completed the Waveney project in a record time from discovery to first gas.

Wamiq later joined LASMO (later acquired by Eni) and served as the Operations Manager in Pakistan, and was involved extensively with the green field developments of Bhit, Zamzama, Miano and Sawan fields.  He later moved to Nigeria to head Eni’s Partner Operated Business Unit that was responsible for an annual net budget of US$ 250 million and net production of around 100,000 BOEPD.  In Nigeria he was involved with several giant projects including the world’s largest FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading facility) development that was located in deepwater.  Lately, he was assisting Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Company (KUFPEC) in managing the Exploration & Production activities in the Far East & Australia Region that is almost entirely offshore and included several green field projects.

Wamiq has acquired broad based industry knowledge (technical & managerial) through a life time of Exploration & Production work.  In addition, he has established credibility with several multinationals and has a vast professional network in the international as well as regional petroleum sector.

Wamiq served as Chairman of Pakistan Association of Petroleum Geoscientist, an affiliation of AAPG, from 2008 to 2010. He also served on the Board of “Pakistan Petroleum E&P Companies Association” (PPEPCA) from 2007 to 2010. Wamiq has also served on the Board of Society of Petroleum Engineers Pakistan and has authored several technical papers.  As the conference Chairman, he organized the first ever Oil & Gas show in Pakistan in 2002 which was very successful attracting several international companies despite the environment generated by 11th September 2001 event. He has also served on the Boards of KASB Securities Company, Karachi American School and Safi Qureshey Foundation.