Management Team

Saad Muzaffar Waraich

President

Saad Muzaffar Waraich is a seasoned telecom professional having expertise in technology, organizational transformation, sales, services, and operations. He has a wide range of leadership experience working with both national and international firms in the telecom and other technology areas. Prior to joining Transworld, Mr. Waraich served in management positions at PTCL, Ufone, Nokia, Comptel, IBM, Nokia Siemens Networks and NCR.

He has conceptualized and led product portfolios, processes, mergers & acquisitions with a key contribution towards improvement in the bottom line and managing customer relationships.

Naveed Malik

EVP Finance

Mr. Malik joined Transworld in December 2010. He is currently working as EVP Finance. He is a Chartered Accountant with hands on experience of financial management, banking, financial advisory, auditing, accounting and corporate affairs. He has experience in business development, resource planning, monitoring and financial planning and structuring of projects in power generation, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunication, real estate and environmental projects with emphasis on CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) consideration. Before joining us, Mr. Malik has served at Anjum Asim Shahid Rehman (Grand Thoroton), Bank Alfalah Ltd., Saif Telecom Ltd., Utopia Developers (Pvt.) Ltd., Saif Power and most recently at Saif Holding Ltd.

Syed Amiruddin

EVP Engineering

Mr. Amiruddin joined Transworld in August 2007. He is currently working as EVP Engineering. He has been an active member of the Internet and Data Communication Community since 1995. He was a member of the founding team at Cybernet. He also worked as a senior consultant to the high-tech industry helping high profile customers in designing their Data Networks. Mr. Amiruddin maintains a technical head role for network engineering, operations and advisory role for new technology and strategic initiatives at the company; where he served on the IP, MPLS, ATM, FR and TDM Engineering teams. Mr. Amiruddin holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from Pakistan.

Faisal Abbasi

EVP Commercial

Mr. Abbasi joined Transworld as the Vice President Commercial in May 2014. He headed the Sales, Marketing, and Commercial Operations Business Units at Transworld from 2014 to 2021 until he was transferred as CEO TES in Nov 2021 on a secondment. Faisal is currently serving as Executive Vice President Commercial TWA, since May 2023, after being transferred back to TWA team.

Faisal is a seasoned telecom professional with three decades of experience in the field of telecom, ICT, hardware, software and solution sales and services. Faisal has worked at top organizations like Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Siemens AG (Germany) and Siemens Pakistan.

During his career, Faisal has won several awards at these companies and brings with him a solid multinational culture and great CXO level relationship. Faisal has a deep understanding of the telecom market, and his strengths lies in the field of sales and marketing strategies, channel management, FMCG industry and fostering partnerships both locally and internationally.

Faisal holds an honours MBA degree from the Business School of Lausanne, Switzerland and has a BBA Degree from the American College of Switzerland. Additionally, Faisal has also completed specialized courses at Harvard University, Boston, USA.

Abdul Rehman Durwaish

Vice President – Business Development

Mr. Durwaish is a trained professional with Techno Commercial background having more than 34 years of experience in the field of ICT & Telecommunications. He joined TWA in April 2014 and is heading Business Development unit with additional sales role of VP Commercial. Prior to joining TWA, Mr. Durwaish has served in PTCL (the incumbent telco of Pakistan) for over 26 years. He was an Executive Vice President – PTCL for Corporate Services & Sales for the South Zone. He started his Telecom career in PTCL, as Assistant Divisional Engineer in International Transmission and then moved to senior positions in Corporate Strategy, Churn Management, Corporate Sales and Business Development as Manager, General Manager & Executive Vice President. Mr. Durwaish has done his Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington, USA and an Executive MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.

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