ASSIGNMENT # 1 & 2

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

CENTRE FOR ADVANCE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN

COURSE TITLE
Technology And Entrepreneurship

SUBMITTED BY
IMRAN MEHMOOD
Fall-2014/MSc. EM/008

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Dr. Nadeem Ehsan

Assignment#1

Elevator Speech
Hi, my name is Imran Mehmood. My background to date has centered around preparing myself
to be the most well-rounded professional possible. I have specifically prepared myself for a
career in electronics by taking competitive undergraduate classes and by gaining invaluable realworld experience. I have also prepared myself to transition into the work force through realworld experience involving internships and entrepreneurial opportunities. I also obtained
considerable professional sales training as a result of my own entrepreneurial pursuits. I began to
focus my efforts on obtaining additional training in computer information systems. I am
achievement and detail oriented. I work extremely well in a team environment and have been a
team leader on several of my projects. I further developed my communications skills, which
were extremely important in my past work experience, throughout my academic career. I have
worked with the latest technologies in my classes. When assigned a project, I possess the skills to
see it through to top-notch completion. I am prepared to make a significant contribution in the
next step in my career.

Assignment#2
SADRUDDIN HASHWANI

Saruddin hashwani is one of the famous entrepreneurs in Pakistan. His faith in Pakistan was put to test
recently when two of his investments in Hospitality were targeted in one of Pakistan's worst terrorist
attacks. In spite of huge losses, his resolve in this country was undeterred and he vowed to reconstruct it
all over. He did it and while he rebuilt what was destroyed, he set an amazing example by not firing any
of his employees amid all the losses and financial tragedy he had to suffer.
Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani started from Cotton trading business in 1960 and today his industrial group is
among the largest groups in the country with portfolio as diversified as Real Estate, Oil & Gas, and
Hospitality, IT, ceramics and Pharmaceuticals. He has grown through hard work and intelligent business
practices which are hallmarks of his success story. Today he is known to be the leading figures in
hospitality industry around the world and has been honored with various awards including a gold medal
for distinguished services for hospitality industry in Pakistan at World Tourism convention.
Pearl Continental Hotels and Marriot Hotels operated by his group are industry standard for hospitality
industry in Pakistan. Sadruddin Hashwani is the Chairman of Hashoo Group. Today, Hashoo Group of
Companies has in its fold, as owners and operators, the Pearl Continental Hotels and Marriott Hotels
brands with presence in all major cities of Pakistan and Ocean Pakistan Limited, a prestigious Oil and
Gas exploration and production company. Marriott hotels also belong to Hashoo Group. When Hashoo
Group started using the Marriott name it was one of the first times in the history of the corporation that
they had given a franchise to a hotel that was not directly under their management control. An
achievement for Hashoo group, indeed. Sadruddin Hashwani terms it as a matter of great satisfaction
because when he met Bill Marriott he had never thought about the franchise. Then they sent their people
to inspect these hotels before offering the franchise. As a matter of fact, the franchise agreement of the
Marriott was made based on Hashwanis hotel contract and drafted here in Pakistan. Today the format of
franchise agreements has been initiated by the Hashoo Group and Sadruddin Hashwani is very satisfied
that Marriott decided to recognize the product and lend it their name.
While addressing a press conference in May 2011, after capturing of Osama Bin Laden from Pakistani
city of Abbottabad, Sadrruddin Hashwani expressed his support for Pakistan and its institutions,
particularly military and expressed confidence in abilities of Pakistanis.

FIZA FARHAN
Famous US magazine Forbes has integrated 28-year-old Fiza Farhan, co-founder of the Buksh
Foundation, in its list of 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs for 2015. Buksh Foundation, working in
Pakistan since 2009, it is a microfinance institution that brings clean power projects to poor and rural
areas of the country. The foundation has trained 135 women as energy entrepreneurs and brought solarpowered lights to 6,750 households across the country. The foundation's business and clean energy loans
have been extended to some 12,000 entrepreneurs. Buksh Foundation CEO and Director of Buksh
Energy Fiza Farhan were also chosen as the Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council in
September last year. Buksh Foundation and Buksh Energy are part of the Buksh group which was
established in 1950s with a departmental store chain and has now reached the third generation and
branched out into lifestyle brands.
Fiza is the 4th woman from Pakistan who has been included in the Forbes list of young game changers,
movers and makers. Last year, Forbes had named another Pakistani, the 24-year-old Shiza Shahid in its
list of 30 under 30 social entrepreneurs. Shiza Shahid is the co-founder of the Malala Fund. She helped
oversee Malala Yousufzai's medical care in London after she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen.
Speaking about her achievement, Fiza Farhan has said: We have aspired to be an innovative player in
the microfinance and clean energy industries by bringing a focus on women, rural markets and impact
investment for enhancing scale and efficiency. As a young Pakistani professional and as a Pakistani
woman, I am pleased to have been included by FORBES in their list of 30Under30 social entrepreneurs
and am particularly excited about what this could mean for the further development and growth of the
foundation and for our clean energy movement in terms of reach, funding and impact and how it can help
drive our vision to create a positive socio-economic change by financially helping the impoverished
become active economic agents.
With a masters degree in Business Administration from the Warwick Business School and a Bachelor of
Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences [LUMS], Fiza Farhan has led her teams to
establish and introduce innovative business models in the development sector along with establishing a
new model of green economy in Pakistan with multiple projects launched within the macro and micro
renewable energy space. Most recently, she was appointed Future Energy Leader at the World Energy
Council, received the 11th annual Environmental Excellence Award for the Best Performance in
Renewable Energy and was appointed co-chairperson of the Italian Development Committee. She has
consistently represented Pakistans development sector at the regional and global stage as a speaker
across multiple conferences and forums including the UN Foundations SE4ALL forum and the Annual
Global CSR Summit to name a few. She also continues to represents her company and country at the
World Energy Council, UN Foundation Practitioners Network, ADB-Asia Clean Energy Forum, Gender
and Energy Network et al.