PQA Board Members

Director Pakistan Beverage Limited / Board Member Port Qasim Authority

Mr. Siraj Kassam Teli has been appointed as Board Member of Port Qasim Authority by the Federal Government w.e.f. 18th July, 2009.   He is a leading industrialist with distinctive qualities of leadership. He belongs to a renowned business family and serves as Director of Pakistan Beverage Ltd. (Pepsi-Cola) Karachi, Hyderabad and Quetta, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, Latif Cotton Mills Limited, Pakola Products (Pvt) Limited and     Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited.

He has served/serving as President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Chairman, Pakistan Beverage Manufacturers Association, Patron-in-Chief and Chairman, SITE Association of Industry and as a representative of the business community on the boards of SITE Limited, Land Utilization, Civil Aviation Authority, Sindh Workers Welfare Board, Workers Welfare Fund, KESC, etc.

As Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG), he has rendered extraordinary services in leading the business and industrial community with revolutionary and progressive changes in trade affairs and functioning of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, SITE Association and other trade bodies.

Siraj Kassam Teli is also widely acknowledged for his public service and social work initiatives like working for compensation for the victims of Boulton Market Ashura Day incident. He is a member of Resource Development and Public Affairs Committee of Aga Khan University Hospital and Trustee of Memon Medical Institute.  He has made valuable contributions towards improvement of the national economy and creating better conditions for the people of Karachi.

For his outstanding services, he was conferred the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy (Honoris causa) by the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences of the Institute of Business and Technology (BIZTEK).

Mr. Anjum Nisar has been appointed as member PQA Board by the Federal Government w.e.f. 01-12-2009. He is presently Managing Director of Anjum Asif (Pvt) Limited. He was awarded gold medal by the Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for rendering services to the business community of Pakistan. Prior joining PQA, he was president of Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industries (KCCI). As a nominee of KCCI, he served following Committees / Board / Institutions as a Member;

• Advisory Committee of Ministry of Commerce
• Advisory Committee of Ministry of Finance 
• Export Development Fund of Ministry of Commerce 
• Karachi Water & Sewerage Board
• Member Managing Committee
• Preston University   
• Institute of Business Administration 
• College of Business Management
• Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology 
• Ziauddin Medical University
• Greenwich University
• Hamdard University
• KASB Institute of Technology
• Baqai Medical University
• BIZTEK Institute of Business & Technology
• Karachi Institute of Econ & Technology
• Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
• Iqra University
• Karachi Medical and Dental College
• PAF Karachi Institute of Econ & Technology
• Indus Institute

He served Export Promotion Zone Authority as a Director. He was Chairman of KCCI’s  Custom & Valuation Sub-Committee and FPCCI’s Standing Committee on Consumer Items. He conducted numbers of lectures on different aspects of trade and industry as well as on cultural issues. He is a popular choice of talk shows on electronic media on the subject trade & industry. Numerous publications on trade & industry are also on his record.