Mr. M. Asif is a Fellow Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) and Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP). He is also a member of Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) and Management Association of Pakistan (MAP).

Mr. M. Asif is a Certified Director from Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance (PICG).

He has more than 30 years of diversified industry experience with strong background in strategic planning, financial & business management, contract negotiations, budget preparation & controlling, group tax planning & compliances, corporate risk identification & management, audits & investigations, policies & process development and corporate structuring & legal compliance.

During his stay with renowned listed companies, he was the member of the board / executive management committee and headed different functions, which include finance & accounts, internal audit, shariah compliance, corporate & legal affairs, IT, Admin & HR, procurement, planning, production, engineering, quality, regulatory & RnD. He remained actively involved in diversified improvement & change management processes in these companies, some of those are mentioned hereunder:

• Developing medium to long term strategic plan and annual budgets

• Controlling through budgets

• Successful implementing different ERP systems, including SAP and Oracle

• Establishing an internal audit function and organizing formal periodical reporting to Board Audit Committee

• Restructuring proper authorities, responsibilities and accountabilities for different level and introducing polices and procedure defining detailed work flow

• Handling income tax and sales tax matters and appeals up to Appellate Tribunal level

• Private equity investment management, including business valuation, agreement negotiation, financial, tax & legal due diligence, right issue etc.

• Listing at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) through reverse merger, fulfilling all legal and corporate formalities of SECP and PSX etc.

• Ensuring compliance to Code of Corporate Governance

• Arranging certification from SECP, as Shariah Complaint Company

• Winning Top 25 Companies award of PSX, Management Excellence Award of MAP and Best Corporate Report Awards of ICAP & ICMAP

• Handling, SECP registered, not for profit organization (NPO) matters

• Handling and sorting out labour union and IR matters at NIRC level

• Negotiation with the Bankers for settlement of financing and write off of mark up in respect of certain sick unit

• Successfully managing and completing number of BMR Projects under supply chain

• Halal Certification of company products

• Creating and managing retirement benefit funds

Some successful mediation for settlement of commercial disputes.