The Company

Management

• Gohar Sharif Butt
• Mr. Sherazam Mazari
• Mr. Bilal Tauseef
• Mr. Abid Sattar

Gohar Sharif Butt, CEO

Mr. Gohar Butt, Director and Chief Executive Officer at Countryside, is a professionally qualified Systems Analyst and an MBA, with over 19 years of diversified and accredited experience in various fields of management with world class multinationals. His key competencies include: Organization Development, Banking Operations, Islamic Finance, Project & Change Management, Business Process Re-engineering & Systems Planning.

In his professional career, Mr. Butt has held senior management positions in Standard Chartered Bank, ANZ Grindlays Bank and American Express Bank. The last position he served during his employment career was Managing Director of First Grindlays Modaraba (Now Standard Chartered Modaraba), a company modeled as an Islamic Fund catering to the business of financial and operating leases.

Mr. Butt established EE&T as a professional services organization, driven to act as a facilitator in developing and offering innovative business solutions for capital formation, organizational development, and management for value creation by providing specialist professional support to clients. Since EE&T’s formation, Mr. Butt has lead several large scale projects for private and public enterprises and has successfully launched new entrepreneurial ventures from this platform.

Amongst the new business ventures, Professional Employers Private Limited (People™) was established first, which has grown to become the leading HR and Process Outsourcing firm operating out of Pakistan and UAE. In August 2007, Mr. Butt diversified EE&T’s private equity portfolio by establishing a real estate development and management company named Orix Properties Pakistan, in partnership with Orix Corporation Japan and Orix Leasing Pakistan. In 2008, The D’Hamidi Partnership Private Limited, one of Pakistan’s critically acclaimed ideas company, was added to the portfolio. Other ventures launched by Mr. Butt include The Warehouse (importer and retailer of specialized furniture) and Countryside Natural Products, a farming and food processing business catering to local and international markets.

Sherazam Mazari, Director

Mr. Sherazam Mazari is a seasoned business professional and has held leadership positions at prominent financial institutions across the region.

Mr. Mazari held several senior level positions in Standard Chartered Bank where he served as CEO, Africa Division; Regional Head Consumer Bank /SME China, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines; Regional Head Consumer Bank Middle East South Asia; and Global Head for Consumer Lending Business. Mr. Mazari also served in senior roles in Wholesale and the Consumer Bank including General Manager Consumer Bank Turkiye.

In December 2007, Mr. Mazari became a partner at Sabre Capital Worldwide, which is a London based private equity fund focused on emerging financial markets. In May 2009, he established Rojhan Capital as Managing Partner, which is an investment and management company focused on Pakistan.

Mr. Mazari holds an MBA (Finance) degree from IBA.

Abid Sattar, Director

Mr. Abid Sattar holds a MBA in Finance from Punjab University with a Gold Medal for securing Top position and M.Phil in Economics and Politics of Development from Cambridge University, UK. Mr. Sattar was also awarded Quaid-e-Azam Merit Scholarship – the most coveted academic scholarship by Government of Pakistan for studying abroad.

Mr. Sattar has extensive experience of over 24 years in Corporate and Consumer Banking, both in Pakistan as well as abroad. Mr. Sattar holds the distinction of being one of the pioneers in the establishment of Consumer Business in Pakistan with renowned banks such as Citibank NA, ANZ Grindlays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank.

Currently Mr. Sattar is serving as Group Executive Retail & Consumer Banking at Habib Bank Limited (HBL) as well as SEVP/Member Management Committee.