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Opening doors ofEntrepreneurship

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Islamabad

1 OPEN Islamabad

CONTENTS2 Introduction to open

3 OPEN Across World

5 OPEN Global

Presidents Message

6 OPEN Washington DC

Presidents Message

7 OPEN Islamabad

9 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Introduction to OPEN

Islamabad Chapter

10 OPEN ISLAMABAD Programs

11 OPEN Islamabad Networking Event

15 Meri Kahaani Meri Zubaani

17 Board members

19 how can you help?

Membership Fee

16 OPEN LEGAL CLINIC: Untangling

Your Legal Knots!

CEO Coaching

OPEN Islamabad Mission

Statement

Objectives / Goals

Achievements

The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs (OPEN) is a voluntary not-for-profit association dedi-cated to providing leadership opportunities for our members and community. The organization was formed in 1998 by a group of Pakistani-American entrepreneurs and corporate executives and registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the year 2000. The association's char-ter is to provide networking opportunities and enhanced business opportunities for entrepre-neurs and professionals who work in high tech, finance and biotech fields in North America. OPEN meetings and events are open to the public. OPEN has chapters in New England, Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington DC.

OPEN Chapters have boards comprising the most successful Pakistanis in the areas of finance, technology, telecommunications, biotech and consulting in North America. OPEN regularly orga-nizes events pertaining to current issues in business and entrepreneurship. In addition to OPEN'S highly successful Board of Directors, OPEN is comprised of executive committees of seasoned entrepreneurs and professionals from a multitude of industries and professions that help plan, coordinate, and execute OPEN's mission.

INTRODUCTION TO OPEN

2 OPEN Global

3 OPEN Global

OPEN ACROSS WORLD

OPEN CHICAGO http://www.open-chicago.org/

OPEN ATLANTA http://www.openatlanta.org

OPEN NEW YORK http://www.open-newyork.org/

OPEN HOUSTON http://www.openhouston.org/

OPEN SILICON VALLEY http://www.open-siliconvalley.org/

www.openislamabad.org

www.facebook.com/openislamabad

www.linkedin.com/company/openislamabad

www.twitter.com/openislamabad

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OPEN-LONDON http://www.open-london.org/

OPEN NEW ENGLAND http://www.open-newengland.com/

OPEN WASHINGTON, D.C http://www.openwashingtondc.org/

OPEN KARACHI http://www.openkarachi.org/

OPEN ISLAMABAD http://www.openislamabad.org/





OPEN GLOBALOPEN Global is a voluntary philanthropic venture dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and professional excellence. OPEN Global is proud to provide a great platform to the Pakistani American entrepreneurs and professionals to showcase their outstanding contributions to the US economy as well as provide a conduit to the mainstream business and professional community in the US to inter-act with the Pakistani diaspora both in USA and in Pakistan.

Members of OPEN Global include professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, scientists, social leaders, academics and students. OPEN Global leverages various programs in the areas of mentorship, entrepreneurship, and professional development, they also hold a number of exclusive events with global thought leaders on today’s most current topics.

PRESIDENTS MESSAGEAs 2013 comes to a close and we welcome 2014. It has been a very busy year with chap-ters forming and dormant chapters becoming active. More people attended each other’s annual events than ever before.

I want to outline milestones we have reached and the goals we have set for 2014.

2013All the chapters have paid their dues. All the chapters are functioning and having events.Other than two chapters every chapter held their annual event that was widely attended.Charter members from different chapters have started attending each other’s annual events.Silicon Valley event had the largest number of charter members attending. Other than Lahore every chapter attended the event.Lahore and London had their inaugural events that were very successful.

2014We have been working on opening chapters in different cities and countries.Islamabad chapter is in the final stages of their presentation.Toronto chapter is also being formed.From each chapter there is a proposal to have 10 intern positions open for out of town interns.

Mr. QamerPresident, OPEN Global

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OPEN WDC is a network of entrepreneurs and professionals with a common goal to help each other achieve their professional goals. Over a period of time since its inception OPEN WDC has conducted numerous mentoring sessions, major conferences, networking events and workshops every year.

OPEN WDC has helped many young professionals in assuming leadership roles and advancing their careers by providing help with execution, strategic thinking and skills development.

OPEN WASHINGTON DC

I am honored to take on the role as President of OPEN WDC for the 2013-2014 term with our new Chairman of the Board, Mr. Imran Akram. Since the inception of our DC chapter in 2004, OPEN DC has been striving to provide a networking and mentoring platform to entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs, and to create success for our members, their respective companies, employees and even families! We look forward to working togeth-er with our members to explore the challenges of leading successful businesses in a

transparent world with new dynamics and socio-political challenges including social media, increased investor and public scrutiny.

For our members, our focus will be to provide better value by offering unique and innovative programs, ways to help gain knowledge in their areas of interest, meet and learn from industry leaders and their success stories, and provide some events and offering for members only.

This year our focus will be on:

Youth outreach, mentoring students and providing career counseling and mentoring opportunities;Women’s Leadership Forum which made a mark in 2012 with a number of extremely interesting events;Matching business opportunities between US and Pakistan by collaboration throughDepartment of State, USAID and others to promote initiatives for investment in Pakistan;Strengthening partnerships with our existing sponsors and partners and enhancing ourschedule of CM exclusive events.

We are very grateful to the Executive Committee, The Board of Directors, our Charter Members and Volunteers who help make OPEN DC a successful organization.

Narjis Bokhari AliPresident, OPEN Washington DC Chapter

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

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OPEN ISLAMABAD

OPEN Islamabad is an offshoot of a US grounded global voluntary non-profit orga-nization (OPEN) and is committed to the pro-motion of entrepreneurship, value creation for businesses and their leadership among all its chapters, their members and their connected communities both international-ly and in Pakistan predominantly in Islam-abad. Established in Boston in 1998, OPEN has chapters in Boston, Chicago and Hous-ton, Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Karachi and now in Islamabad.

OPEN Islamabad has harnessed its signifi-cance as being the most vibrant and promis-ing gathering of top entrepreneurs, Our core focus is to strive towards providing an inter-active platform to and for entrepreneurs to facilitate success, encourage growth for

our members and their businesses, in order to enable them to overcome the challenges presented by today’s exceed-ingly dynamic global business environ-ment and the increasing globalization of the world economy.

Introduction to OPENIslamabad Chapter

Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs

(OPEN) Islamabad Chapter has been

incepted with a vision and mission to

“Foster entrepreneurship, business

acceleration, partnerships, cross chapter

collaboration, and belief in the brand

‘Pakistan’’.

OPEN Islamabad MissionStatement





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To provide financing assistance and

mentorship to enterprising individuals

through programs such as the business plan

competition and monthly business plan

critiques.

To develop ongoing events through

which technology professionals can meet

and network amongst themselves and with

other influential individuals.

To facilitate and encourage the growth

of Pakistani entrepreneurs in the technology

field.

To draw attention to and promote

Pakistani hi-tech entrepreneurs within the

greater technology community.

To recognize accomplishments by Paki-

stani entrepreneurs and professionals in the

technology field.

Objectives / Goals

OPEN is a collaboration of entrepreneurs

and professionals who help each other to

achieve their professional goals, OPEN pro-

vides assistance with execution, strategic

thinking and skills development. So far our

various chapters have helped many young

professionals into becoming seasoned lead-

ers and have helped advance their careers.

Achievements





PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Connecting the dots, bridging the gaps, inspiring for some to take the leap and for others to cross the chasm – OPEN is an enabler and we the volunteers and evangelists to spark the magic of entrepre-neurship. I along with my executive team are committed and moti-vated to leverage the institutional experience that OPEN has gained over the years and trickle that effectively to Pakistan in general and Islamabad in particular.

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“Everybody needs help sometimes, even Spiderman”.(Mary Jane in Spiderman)

Being a CEO is glamourous no doubt; however the invisible weight of responsibility can only be felt by the CEO alone, the view from the top is no doubt breathtaking but it’s usually lonely up there.There are CEO’s who have taken that major leap of faith to start their own shop, they struggle through with perse-verance and patience and get their baby to stand on its feet, and then there are others who takeover reins of a running horse with potential of going to the next level and emerging as a champion. Far too often both leaders and their organizations, get stalled or feel complacent far too early and consequently they stop growing.

All leaders at some point in time need guidance and help in taking themselves and their organizations to the next level. We at OPEN Islamabad believe that while fair bit of wisdom, support and help is available for someone start-ing on their entrepreneurial journey, the same is not true for a CEO wishing to take his/her organization to next level. Getting a stable start up to the next level of growth is another entrepreneurial journey but one requiring different set of expertise and counseling.

That is where our CEO coaching programs comes in. It is meant for those organizational leaders who have some-what established concerns and in search for expertise, mentoring and guidance to move on to the next level.

Once onboard, we pair you with a mentor and coach, someone who has taken that journey and knows the maze of success. He or she will develop a 1-1 relationship with you to help you with what you need. The relationship will be customized to your needs for a time period that both of you define.

With successful launch of our CEO coaching program, this program is gaining momentum more than expected and below is the growing current list of our esteemed mentors

Like other OPEN chapters, OPEN Islamabad also focuses on fostering mentorship, entrepreneurship, and profes-sional development for its members, however unlike other OPEN chapters, OPEN Islamabad entered the market playing field with a bang. Kicking off with two major recurring programs drumming the core of OPEN’s global existence.

CEO COACHING

OPEN ISLAMABAD PROGRAMS

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Mansoor Khan – CEO Makabu Ather Imran Nawaz – Senior Vice President, Sybrid Private Ltd

Junaid Kalim CEO, Kalim Associates (A Group Of Companies)





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Unlike the usual networking events where you can expect to find disingenuous business types in bad suits in a 3 star hotel ballroom, all of them just continuously popping up to each other and saying, “Eyyyy. Help me help you. Here’s my card.” Then they do that finger-gun gesture with both hands and make that clicking noise and sidle off.

OPEN ISLAMABAD NETWORKING EVENT





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Networking events can be places where real work gets done and real connections are forged. Just like the ones OPEN Islamabad hosts, their networking events win points for being not so big but having all the right people in the right place. The main purpose OPEN Islamabad hosts and facilitates these events is for every attendee to focus on real network-ing and sharing of innovative ideas so they can advance their business objectives.

So far in 2014 OPEN Islamabad has successfully held a networking event every quarter of 2014, here is an overview of these networking events by OPEN Islamabad





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Meri Kahaani, Meri Zubaani”, integrating successful young Entre-preneurs from local community in OPEN that share their success stories. Their inspiration will work as a catalyst for encouraging new young members to “Make an idea happen”.

MERI KAHAANIMERI ZUBAANI

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For the first time in Pakistan OPEN Islamabad introduces our one stop shop for complete legal advice regarding your entrepreneurial setup from experts. Initiating a business can be a complex process that involves so many different things ranging from structure of the company, partnership agreements, taxa-tion structure, employee contracts etc. It is so often that these key elements are not given enough focus and then come back to haunt the founders and/or entrepreneurs. Legal Clinic is designed to fill this gap and will offer top quality advice by some of the top experts of respective field.

In this FREE event, a panel of legal/tax/accounts experts will meet with a group of 3-5 companies/CEOs for advice during a 60-90 minutes session. The topics may include the following:

If you are an entrepreneur or an executive facing any of these challenges, then this is your opportunity to take the first steps towards fixing the issues.

OPEN LEGAL CLINIC:UNTANGLINGYOUR LEGALKNOTS!

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Wahaj us Siraj CEO Nayatel Junaid Kalim CEO, Kalim Associates (A Group Of Companies)

Arsalan Vardag Partner JASB Associates

Co-founder agreementsLegal Form of BusinessCorporate MattersAccounting and Finance

TaxationFinancing AgreementsValuationMergers/Acquisition





Ather Imran NawazSenior Vice President, Sybrid Private LimitedChairman of the Board, VP Programs @ OPEN Islamabad

Ather, with a Masters from Purdue University, has over 15 years of professional experience with various IT and ITES organizations, and is currently Senior Vice President at Sybrid Private Limited.

Besides work, Ather is an active blogger (http://thinkingspirits.com), mentor, he is known for creating platforms for professionals and is currently engaged in volunteering for a major non-profit effort to establish Islamabad as the hub to be acknowledged as a knowledge city. Ather is a regular volunteer for educational and health welfare organizations, and regularly speaks at various universities. He is also serving as Chairman of the Board for OPEN Islamabad chapter.

Farrukh MalikCEO, Discretelogix (Private) LimitedBoard Member, VP IT @ OPEN Islamabad

A serial entrepreneur, co-founder of multiple businesses including an IT company, leather products manufacturing & export and high tech equipment brick & mortar shops. He loves taking challenges and believes in innovation, creativity, dedication & hard work.

Junaid KalimCEO, Kalim Associates (A Group Of Companies)Board Member @ OPEN Islamabad

An engineer by education and an entrepreneur with over 15 years of strategic management experiences into a variety of successful ventures, a Bobcat from New York University – Junaid runs one of the biggest real estate, construction, brokerage and asset management groups in Islamabad. His philanthropic efforts include creating Kalim Trust which offers free food centers and assistance for poor. With his diverse experience, a large enterprise set up and community efforts, Junaid is a great and proud addition to the group.

Mansoor KhanCEO Makabu Charter Member, Board Member @ OPEN Islamabad

There is no bout with experience and Mansoor Khan has an aura that symbolizes experience and success, he has been weathered in time as one of the most successful entrepreneurs, he cultivated and fostered Makabu – A leading provider of managed IT services for 10 prosperous years. Mansoor graduated as a Golden Eagle of California State University, Los Angeles.

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BOARD MEMBERS

Mansoor was part of the inaugural event of the first OPEN chapter in Boston back in 2000. Mansoor is a philanthropist who founded the JAQ Education Trust, working for education of poor kids in and around Islamabad.

Owais AnjumCo-founder & CEO CricoutPresident @ OPEN Islamabad

Owais Anjum a Silicon Valley trooper for a good number of years is a Spartan armed with an MBA from San Jose State University the oldest public institution on the West Coast of US, has led a subsidiary of a Silicon Valley Company in Pakistan and has been administering his own startup “Cricout – A Social Network for Cricket” for over 2 years now.

Owais is an esteemed and distinguished member of the Islamabad entrepreneurial circle and volunteers his time for mentoring as an avid networker. He has also been an active member of OPEN Silicon Valley chapter in the past.

Professor Dr. Arshad AliPrincipal SEECS, NUST, IslamabadBoard Member @ OPEN Islamabad

Prof. Dr. Arshad Ali a panther with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania is currently Administering School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) NUST is a prolific researcher and academicians. He has over 100 publications to his credit in both nationally and internationally. He has been awarded numerous medals for being a Distinguished Scientists and Researcher”.

Dr. Arshad is actively working on various research projects with Stanford USA, Caltech USA, UWE UK, and University of South Brittany France. He has served as member of the Interna-tional Advisory Board of the “International ICFA Workshop on HEP Networking, Grids, and Digital Divide Issues for Global e-Science”.

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BOARD MEMBERS

Obaidullah KhawajaCo‐ founder and CEO FlikkableBoard Member, VP Outreach @ OPEN Islamabad

A dynamic entrepreneur running his own technology startup “Flikkable”, a tartan graduate from Carnegie Mellon bagging high end experience of working with Amazon and Microsoft, Obaid is one of the most happening entrepreneurs in Islamabad.

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HOW CAN YOU HELP?

MEMBERSHIP FEE

As an OPEN Member, you will get free or significantly subsidized access to OPEN Events andPrograms. Additionally, you will gain you access to some events that will be exclusive for OPEN Members only.

OPEN Member

Annual Membership Fee: PKR 3,000/-

As an OPEN Member, you will get free or significantly subsidized access to OPEN Events andPrograms. Additionally, you will gain you access to some events that will be exclusive for OPEN Members only.

STUDENT Member

Annual Membership Fee: PKR 1,000/-

You can help by offering your talents, your creativity, and your skills to the wonderful experience of OPEN Islamabad as part of this team, joining us as a member would lead you to ample oppor-tunities to engage with other OPEN members and participate in various events. Whereas we promise you learning and growth opportunities for your career/social aspirations and the most appropriate platform to contribute to society.

You can also contribute to OPEN Islamabad and our cause with your sponsorships. Sponsors of OPEN Islamabad enjoy access to the diverse group of established and emerging leaders in busi-ness, academia, and social enterprises. Sponsors receive recognition on OPEN Islamabad’s web-site and our events. In addition to that our sponsors get to promote their company’s products and services to other members and other chapters and an opportunity to attract and recruit the best talent in the industry.

However; if you are unable to contribute to OPEN Islamabad in any of the these two capacities mentioned above, don’t worry about it because you can still be a part of this social/professional venture as a valued OPEN member by contributing towards spreading the word about OPEN to your community, friends and family, telling them what we are all about and what value we bring.

OPEN Islamabad is an inclusive organization and welcomes all individuals from all walks of life who are interested in promoting the goals of OPEN Islamabad, you can be a part of our collective success, it will be fun, rewarding and an educational experience.





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