Zohaib Ali

Zohaib Ali

Since graduating from LUMS in 2014, Zohaib has been on the lookout for a transformational role in a legacy industry: a role easier dreamt of than executed. Having acquired a knack for financial trading, Zohaib's first tenures in the financial markets were lucrative yet strangely unfulfilling. Pivoting from financial trading to take up a senior management position in his family business, Zohaib soon came across the traditional barriers associated with expanding a legacy business and hence started exploring the rising tech-business wave hitting Pakistan (hyper-scale is what he is drawn to the most).

In January 2019, he started Airlift Technologies, a smart-bus solution designed to cater to the mass transit market. Since then, Airlift has gone on to become a household brand, transporting hundreds of thousands of passengers weekly, having raised the region's largest Series A round in record time.

After Airlift, Zohaib launched Dastgyr, a B2B e-commerce marketplace connecting small retailers to suppliers in Pakistan. His day-to-day role at Dastgyr involves driving the business forward on its journey to become Pakistan's largest B2B e-commerce solution.



INDUSTRY EXPERTISE:

Fundraising and venture space

Hiring and talent

Operations and scaling up

* Finding product-market fit


WHO SHOULD APPLY: Early-stage startups

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