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Founder & Managing Partner

Jawad Saleem

Chartered Accountant

Jawad Saleem is a senior finance and enterprise leader with more than two decades of experience across finance, operations, transactions, governance and business transformation. His career includes CFO and Group CFO leadership, board and audit committee responsibilities, and work across real estate, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, investment businesses and infrastructure.

Jawad Saleem, Founder & Managing Partner

Profile

Professional foundation

  • Chartered Accountant

Jawad Saleem is a Chartered Accountant and senior business leader with more than 21 years of experience spanning finance, operations, transactions, governance and enterprise transformation.

His career has included CFO and Group CFO leadership roles, board and audit committee responsibilities, and senior assignments across real estate, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, investment businesses and infrastructure. His work has involved business transformation, M&A and joint ventures, financial restructuring, ERP implementation, governance, feasibility and investment evaluation, performance management and large-scale real estate development economics.

His approach combines the discipline of finance with a broader operating perspective: understanding how a business makes money, where value is being lost, what the numbers are really saying and what management should do next.

Alongside his advisory and executive work, Jawad writes regularly on economics, business, governance, technology and public policy, bringing a wider macro and strategic perspective to corporate decision-making.

Selected experience areas

Where the experience lies.

  1. 01C-suite finance and enterprise leadership
  2. 02Board and audit committee oversight
  3. 03M&A, joint ventures and transaction structuring
  4. 04Large-scale real estate and development economics
  5. 05Finance transformation, ERP, reporting and controls
  6. 06Business restructuring and performance improvement
  7. 07Investment feasibility and financial modelling
  8. 08Infrastructure and project-finance assessment
  9. 09Governance, organisation design and operating discipline

Career experience across

Organisations served in leadership, finance and advisory roles.

Employers, groups and institutions where our team has held executive, board, audit and advisory responsibilities.

  • A.F. Ferguson & Co. (PwC)
  • PwC
  • Levi Strauss & Co.
  • Levi's
  • Denizen
  • Dockers
  • Atlas Copco
  • Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust
  • Carrefour
  • Majid Al Futtaim
  • Outfitters
  • Ethnc
  • Loftex
  • First Capital Group
  • First Capital Investments
  • Media Times
  • Daily Times
  • Business Plus
  • Zaiqa TV
  • Pakistan Medical Commission
  • Veolia (Saudi Arabia)
  • Utility Stores Corporation
  • Lahore Times Square
  • DHA Lahore
  • International Holding Company
  • Institute for Art & Culture
  • Pace Pakistan
  • Waseela
  • Kisaan
  • Din Global
  • Sitara Group
  • Sitara Developers
  • Sitara Energy
  • Sitara Peroxide
  • Sitara Textile
  • Sitara Infotech
  • Packages Limited
  • DIC Pakistan
  • Etimaad Engineering
  • Places for People (UK)
  • PAL Group
  • Chimera Investment
  • Taym Al-Furat (Iraq)

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