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Chairman & Co-Founder
Nadeem Hussain does not need introduction in Pakistan’s financial industry. He is one of the Asia’s leading social impact entrepreneurs, technology investors and financial inclusion pioneers. He is the founder of Tameer Microfinance Bank (later Telenor Bank) recognized by World Bank as the socially impactful banks in its field. Its EasyPaisa offering is the world’s second largest branchless banking payments solutions, moving more than 5% of Pakistan’s GDP. Later, he raised Planet N Group having social impact and technology investment firms with in Pakistan, Egypt, UAE and UK with focus on microfinance, fintech, data science / analytics, machine learning / AI, blockchain, and e-efforts in health, education, media and commerce.
Nadeem sees Pakistan, Egypt and the UAE as markets where digitization, data and nano-finance can have transformative social impact, furthering financial inclusion and ushering millions into the mainstream economy, while simultaneously boosting business efficiency and profitability. He is presently the Chairman of Pakistan Fintech Association and remained Chairman of Pakistan Microfinance Network for six years during that period microfinance sector became dominant with tremendous progress in all fields.
Nadeem is globally recognized for his untiring service for financial inclusion. He has chaired the United Nation’s MDG Session on Financial Inclusion, is a frequent speaker at the international forums on branchless banking and microfinance, the list is exhaustive, some of the prominent are; at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2012, at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, where Tameer Bank was showcased as Asia’s solution to financial empowerment. Addressed the C5 convention in Geneva, while being honored with the Global Leader Award in 2011.
Nadeem has been on the Boards of: Hong Kong Commodity Exchange, Government of Pakistan Investment Advisory Board, Institute of Business Administration and recently the Board of State Bank of Pakistan. Nadeem previously spent 27 years at Citigroup in eight countries in regional management within commercial, consumer, retail and investment banking. He holds BA from Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. Nadeem is a peoples’ man, enjoys traveling and try to spend maximum possible times with his team members and employees. A rare CEO, who travelled by road all across Pakistan to personally inaugurate the branches of Tameer Microfinance Bank.
CEO & Co-Founder
Tariq is associated with the banking industry since 1997. In 2005, he joined Tameer Microfinance Bank (later Telenor Bank) as founder member and head of business. He was directly responsible for raising and managing the core business at the national level and articulated an operating model that was self-contained for extended reach and economies of scale with innovative integration of Easypaisa and the “bank on wheels”. Tameer created new benchmarks for the microfinance and won the prestigious awards for the years 2016 and 2017 as the “Best Microfinance Bank-” and the “Best Bank for the Unbanked”.
Before joining Tameer, he was the group head at United Bank Limited where he reorganized the government sector establishment into an agile and dynamic business support function that matched the long-term vision of the Bank and reinforced the brand image. He also served with Citibank Pakistan as Country Collections Head and turned around the business issue of collections and recovery into “the best practice of the business”. Later he took over as the Branch Banking Head and converted the loss-making liability business into a revenue engine that contributed the major share in EBIT, during the same period Citibank won the Euromoney award for being the best Bank in Pakistan.
Before joining the financial industry, Tariq had a successful army career, retired as a brigadier with extensive experience in command of troops and instructions in all the combat schools of the army. He has masters in political science, is a graduate of the Pak Army Command and Staff College and the US Army Finance School. He holds diploma of Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. Tariq is a frequent speaker on microfinance and was invited as guest speaker to Indonesia and Nigeria. He has been a senior trainer in microfinance at the National Institute of Banking & Finance under the State Bank of Pakistan.
COO & Co-Founder
Tariq Anwar is a seasoned banker, who brings extensive experience in consumer and microfinance business covering all its critical functions. He started his career with Citibank Pakistan, later moved to Union Bank. In 2005, he joined Tameer Microfinance Bank (now Telenor Bank) as the founder member and was instrumental in raising the North business that helped to consolidate the branchless banking under the brand name of Easypaisa. Later, he assumed the position of National Business Head and rose to become the Chief Risk Officer, he left Telenor Bank in 2019 to join the founding Team of GoldFin Limited and played pivotal role in its conceptual design, raising and consolidation as the Head of Business.
He had the opportunity to refine his microfinance experience at the international level and attended “Boulder Microfinance Training”, in Italy and the “Program for Strategic Leadership in Microfinance”, at Harvard Business School, USA. In 2012, he joined the training session under World Bank and AgiFin; “Financing Agriculture Forum” at Kampala, Uganda. He is well recognized as the “Microfinance Specialist” and is a senior trainer in microfinance at the National Institute of Banking and Finance (NIBAF) under the State Bank of Pakistan.
Samar Masood Soofi joined GoldFin Limited as the Independent Director in June 2023. She is an Associate Partner at Ahmer Bilal Soofi and Company (ABS & Co) Lahore and brings extensive experience in corporate legal affairs, that cuts across different sectors including competition/anti-trust, M&As, tax, technology and employment. She has closely worked with diverse industries like construction, power, telecommunications and transport. She holds advisory role for large companies, most prominent being Quaid-e-Azam Thermal Power Limited, China Gezhouba, Punjab Skills Development Fund, WASA, FBR, PEMRA and manage their matters/affairs in high courts.
Samar has an LLM from the University of Chicago, read Law at SOAS, University of London. She has special interest in intellectual property law and teaches related courses at LUMS. In 2022, she was included in the Asia Pacific’s list of Recommended Lawyers from Pakistan with recognition for advising on “IP law, cyberlaw, fintech and the regulations for innovative and disruptive technologies”. She is also the consultant for a study commissioned by IGNITE, Ministry of Information and Technology, Pakistan relating to the startup and freelancing ecosystem in Pakistan. She has raised a competent team of young lawyers; that is a true reflection of her leadership potentials and the spirit of ownership.
