Charter Members

Aamir Sheikh


Managing Director in the Corporate Investments Group at Bank of America.
Amir Khan

Director, Product Marketing, Cisco Systems.
Ammar Hanafi

Ammar H. Hanafi general partner at Alloy Ventures.
Arif Janjua

Managing Director, Technology & Communications, SDG.

Asad Jamal

Chairman and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures (www.dfjeplanet.com).
Asher Aziz

Ashar AzizFounder and CEO, FireEye.
Asim Abdullah

General Partner, Global Access Capital.
Aurangzeb Khan

Aurangzeb Khan is Corporate Vice President for Market Development at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Ayaz Haque

Mr. Ayaz ul Haque is a Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures.
Bari Abdul

Bari Abdul, Senior Vice President for World Wide Consumer Marketing at McAfee.
Dilawar Syed

Dilawar Syed is President & Chief Executive Officer of Yonja Media Group, a leading emerging markets internet media company.
Faraz Hoodboy


Faraz is one of the founders of PixSense and serves on its board.
Faruq Ahmad

Faruq Ahmad is founding partner of Palo Alto Capital Advisors, a silicon-valley based firm which provides advisory services to companies and venture capital firms.
Fawad Zakariya
Fawad is currently a Vice President in SAP’s Global Ecosystem and Partner group.
Faysal A. Sohail
Faysal Sohail joined CMEA Capital in 2002 as a Managing Director.

Hasan Rizvi


Vice President, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation. Previously, Co-founder and CEO of Karient Inc. Formerly, co-founder and Vice President at Corio.

Idris Kothari

Idris Kothari has over 35 years of High Tech and 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in Semiconductors.
Jaffer Hussain

Jaffer Hussain is currently Vice President of Product Marketing at LogicVision, a leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company.

Javed Ellahi

Javed Ellahie, B.S.E.E., J.D., LL.M. (Tax) is a partner at Ellahie & Farooqui LLP. Javed is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law with over 30 years of experience.
Kamal Ahmad Kamal is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.
Mahboob Akhtar

Mr. Akhter has 16 years of management experience as co-founder, eCommerce / eBusiness consultant, marketing executive, project manager, corporate manager, and supervisory engineer. Since 2002 he has been managing the operations of a startup firm which develops graphics/video processing platforms.

Mahmood Panjwani

Mahmood Panjwani is the Chairman & CEO of Infinisim, an under the radar EDA startup.
Mahmood Virani

Mahmood is a Vice- President and Private Wealth Advisor with UBS.

Nadir Ali

As President of Sysorex Consulting, Inc. and CEO of its subsidiaries, Mr. Ali has fostered an organization committed to being a global leader in IT Solutions and Services.

Naeem Zafar

Naeem Zafar is a member of the faculty at the Haas business school at University of California Berkeley where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation.

Nazim Kareemi

Mr. Kareemi co-founded Canesta in 1999 and was its CEO from inception to 2004, and Chairman of the Board until 2006..
Omar Khan


Founder of carbonated.tv, a media aggregation and production company focusing on content delivery on mobile and tablet devices. .
Osman Rashid



Osman Rashid is an accomplished entrepreneur and pioneer in education technology.
Raghib Hussain

Raghib Hussain is a Founder of Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:CAVM). He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Software Engineering. \

Rafat Pirzada

Mr. Pirzada was a co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Cyras.
Raheel Zia
Raheel (“Raz”) Zia is a Managing Director in the Merchant Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, based in San Francisco, CA.

Rehan Jalil

Rehan Jalil is the President and CEO of Wichorus, a pioneer in WiMAX-Mobile and LTE / 4G infrastructure equipment.
Riaz Karamali
Riaz has over twenty years of experience in partnering with technology-driven clients in their most strategic and game-changing transactions.
Safi Qureshey

President, Skyline Ventures,Inc. A co-founder and CEO Emeritus of AST Research,

Safwan Shah

Safwan Shah is a graduate of NED University in Karachi and has been a part of several non-profit and other social programs in the US. His professional career includes positions as a researcher in the US Space Program, positions in various Silicon Valley companies, founder of Chowk – a non-profit media and peace initiative, and Infonox a SW and Systems company in the IT marketplace.

Sajid Suhail

Founder and CEO of Dazzle Multimedia and Jadoo.tv. Previously at C-Cube and Digital Equipment Corp.

Shoieb Yunus

Shoieb Yunus is a serial entrepreneur and filmmaker. He is founder & CEO of Vpype Corporation, a Social Video company.

Sohaib Abbasi

Sohaib Abbasi joined Informatica Corporation as president and CEO in July 2004.

Umair Khan

Umair co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company.

Waheed Qureshi

Dr. Waheed Qureshi is the Founder, Chairman and CTO of Zenprise Inc.
Nayeem Qureshi

Nayeem Qureshi brings over 22 years of experience in the area of legacy & philanthropy, pre-transaction planning and wealth management to Saturna Capital
Mohammad Irfan

President and founder Whizz Systems


Zain Jeewanjee

Zain Jeewanjee is currently active in his position as Founder/CEO of Go One Global Corporation and Founder of the Zain Jeewanjee Insurance Agency.

Zulki Khan

Zulki Khan is CEO of NexLogic Technologies in San Jose, CA, a hardware design and manufacturing company he founded in 1995.

Naveed Sherwani

Dr. Sherwani brings over 23 years of experience in technical engineering and general management to his position as President and CEO of Open-Silicon.

Zia Yusuf

Zia Yusuf is currently the CEO of Streetline Inc a global leader in smart city technology.