Aba Ali Habib
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Management

Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Zahid holds an MBA in Finance from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi. Mr. Zahid Ali Habib is currently working as Chief Executive Officer at Aba Ali Habib Securities. He has an extensive experience of over 25 years in the areas of fund management, capital markets, brokerage operations and regulatory affairs. He has had the opportunity to work extensively in various asset classes i.e. equity, fixed income, real estate, commodities and currencies at various local and International Exchanges. He has played a key role in developing Risk Management system at PSX and has served on various PSX committees including Trading and Development; Companies Affairs; Arbitration; New Product Development. He has worked as an Executive Director in Continental Metal & Commodities in DMCC, Dubai and holds years of experience as a former member of Lahore Stock Exchange and National Commodity Exchange.

Head of Compliance
Mr. Muhammad Hasnain is CA (Professional Accounting Affiliate), and holds a Bachelor in Economics from Bahuddin Zakria University Multan (BZU), currently working as the Head of compliance at Aba Ali Habib Securities (Pvt) Ltd. He possess expertise in financial monitoring, analysis of accounting data and compilation of financial reports or statements. He establish and enforced proper accounting under principles of IFRS. He acted as financial advisor in various financial decisions, budget planning, setting targets of the company, and strategy development. As a professional, he always make recommendations based on comparative results of the relevant industry to back his decision in favor of the investors. In his current role, he is engaged in monitoring of compliances under the company’s policies and procedures, managing AML/CFT, SECP, PSX, NCCPL, CDC and FBR compliances under relevant rules and regulations.

Head of Institutional Sales
Mr. Zaheer Ahmed holds an MBA (Finance) from Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur. He is working as Head of Institutional Sales at Aba Ali Habib Securities. He is associated with the financial sector of Pakistan for 20 years and has been managing Institutional clients. He has an extensive experience of equity sales and managing equity sales team. Prior to this he was associated with Ismail Iqbal Securities (Pvt) Ltd. He has also had an opportunity to work with Alfalah Securities (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of Bank Alfalah. He had started his career from Employees’ Old Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) in its Investment Department.

Head of Retail Sales
Mr. Salman holds M.Sc in Economics from University of Karachi, and a diploma in Accounting and Finance from Institute of Business Administration (IBA). He has a vast experience of over 20 years of trading with local and foreign, public and private institutions, high net worth clientele from money market and capital market operations, and has been working at Aba Ali Habib Securities for more than 15 years. He started his career from Jahangir Siddiqui (JS), also worked with IGI Finex Securities and few other brokerage houses as well.

Head of Research
Mr. Muhammad Zubair holds an MBA (Finance) from Istanbul Aydin University and has also passed CFA Level II June’16 examination. During his education in Istanbul, he was selected under European Union’s ERASMUS exchange program to complete his final semester along with his thesis at Frankfurt University, Germany. He has command over scrips in the Banking Sector like HBL, UBL, MCB, ABL and BAFL.