Jawwad
Ahmed Farid
Jawwad
is a Fellow Society of Actuaries (Chicago), a MBA from
Columbia Business School (New York City) and a computer
science graduate. During the last ten years, he has worked
as a consultant in North America, Pakistan and the United
Kingdom with a number of blue chip clients including Hartford
Life, Aegon, American General, Goldman Sachs, ING, Manu
Life, Safeco, Merrill Lynch, Met Life, Sun America, Nationwide,
Phoenix Life, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Sun Life of Canada,
Pacific Life, AllState, Fidelity Investments, Transamerica,
Skandia, GE Financial Assurance, Lincoln National, Ohio
National, AXA Equitable and Washington Mutual Bank.
Jawwad’s
core areas of expertise include Asset/Risk Management,
Investments, Product Development and the Financial Services
Back Office. Jawwad blends a rare combination of information
systems, industry standards, business and product development
skill set side by side with his actuarial expertise. Some
of his highlighted assignments include:
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Comprehensive analysis and extension of risk exposure
measurement & management system for the hedge fund
margin lending business of a bulge bracket investment
bank and brokerage institution in Western Europe.
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Review
of capital adequacy rules and framework for insurance
and reinsurance organizations in a financial services
free zone in the Middle East.
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Initial
feasibilities for micro pension and low income housing
finance products.
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The
launch of 100 plus annuity and pension product across
6 broker dealers, banks and 25 insurance carriers in
10 months in North America.
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Product
design of a Motor Bond product for retail and corporate
customers combining elements of comprehensive automobile
insurance, sinking funds, savings, risk sharing and
claims management in Pakistan.
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Product
development and deployment of an industry wide information
exchange, order entry, transaction processing, commission
and money settlement platform standard within the financial
services sector in North America.
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Product design of an exchange based supply chain management
solution for a leading international Japanese bank and
its customers in North America.
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Valued
added actuarial advisory services for employee benefits
plans.
Jawwad is based in Karachi, Pakistan, where he runs Alchemy's
Enterprise Risk Management, Strategic Product Management
and Actuarial practice.
Arif Rasool
Arif
has a BA in Mathematics and Economics from University
College of North Wales and is a Fellow of the Institute
of Actuaries (England & Wales). He has over fourteen
years experience working for Prudential UK in several
actuarial capacities. More recently he has been the actuary
for American Life Insurance Company (Pakistan) Ltd for
over two years. Arif's focus during his career has been:
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Managing actuarial and operational aspects of Life &
Pensions corporate investment products.
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Actuarial
advice to corporate clients (pension scheme trustees
and sponsors) on the valuation of ongoing occupational
defined benefit pension scheme assets and liabilities.
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Solvency
valuations and financial management of occupational
defined benefit schemes that are closing and/or winding
up.
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Insurance
company actuarial valuations and reporting requirements
for twenty five international operations.
Mujtaba Iqbal
Mujtaba
is a CFA level III candidate and finance and accounting
major from Drexel University. He has worked as a senior
consulting professional for the last 12 years, primarily
with KMHR a member firm representing Deloitte & Touche
in Pakistan. Some of Mujtaba’s recent engagements
include:
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Design and rollout strategy for a small and medium enterprises
financing program for a AAA rated multinational financial
institution.
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Identification
of a Risk Management Strengthening framework for a multinational
bank in the Middle East.
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Country
consultant for UK Government’s Department for
International Development (DFID) Financial Deepening
Challenge Fund (FDCF) responsible for deal flow, marketing,
application assistance, project appraisal, evaluation
and monitoring.
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Domestic Project Manager for a multiyear Technical Assistance
capacity building program funded by the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) covering custom valuations, input output
coefficient organization, antidumping, intellectual
property rights and pre- shipment financing needs.
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Buy
side due diligence, valuations, project appraisals and
financial advisory.
Fawzia Salahuddin
Fawzia
holds a masters & Bachelors in Computer Science from
FAST-ICS (formerly BCCI-FAST). Over the last 10 years
she has worked as a project manager and team-lead in multinational
firms and software houses across Pakistan and North America,
working with clients including State Bank of Pakistan,
Karachi Stock Exchange, Muslim Commercial Bank, Bank of
Ceylon, International Brands, Pakistan Railways, Coco
Commerce, Manufacturer’s Bank and others. Her assignments
haved included:
- Product
design of an exchange based supply chain management solution
for a leading international Japanese bank and its customers
in North America.
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Remote project management of offshore and onsite teams.
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Setup and management of quality assurance and customer
support centers.
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Numerous retail banking, cash balancing and reconciliation
project with banking customers in Pakistan.
The
diverse nature of the projects she has worked on has provided
her exposure in a variety of domains, spanning from 24x7
real time solutions to Supply Chain Management, Banking
Solutions to Distributions. Fawzia is an exceptional communicator,
analyst and problem solver is based in Karachi and run the
technology practice at Alchemy Associates.
Rizwan
is one of the most well respected marketing professional
in the life insurance industry in Pakistan and the ex-Principal
of State Life Insurance Training Academy. Rizwan has over
40 years experience of serving private, multinational
and public sectors in industrial and financial services
marketing, recruitment, selection, training and development
of human resource. Rizwan is based in Karachi, Pakistan
and manages Alchemy’s human capital, financial services
marketing and field development strategies practice.
For
additional information please contact:
Jawwad
Farid
Fellow Society of Actuaries
Chief Executive
Alchemy
Associates (Private) Limited
103 - 104
Amber Estate
Main Shahrah-e-Faisal
Karachi-75350, Pakistan.
Phone: +9221 4535 712-3
Fax: +9221 4543048
jawwad@alchemya.com
www.alchemya.com
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