Amir Paracha is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Unilever Pakistan Limited. He joined the Board on 1st February 2020.
He joined Unilever Pakistan in 2000 and has held various senior management positions in Pakistan and North Africa Middle East cluster over his 20 years with the Company. Prior to taking over as the CEO, in his role as VP Customer Development, he helped deliver solid results and maintained a strong growth mindset, successfully inspiring a transformative vision for the future.
Amir continues to actively experiment with disruptive business models and has championed inclusion across the Unilever ecosystem in Pakistan.
Amir began his career at the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company in July 1996 and has done his Masters in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration.
The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended November 25, 2021 registered a decrease of 0.67% for the combined income group, going down from 169.29 points during the week ended November 18, 2021 to 168.16 points in the week under review.
The SPI for the combined income group rose 18.64% compared to the corresponding week of previous year. The SPI for the lowest income group decreased 0.81% compared to the previous week. The index for the group stood at 177.6 points against 179.05 points in the previous week, according to provisional figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). During the week under review, average prices of 20 items rose in a selected basket of goods, prices of eight items fell and rates of remaining 23 goods recorded no change.
On the other hand, rupee weakened against the US dollar at Rs175.46 in the inter-bank market on Friday compared with Thursday’s close of Rs174.97, according to the (SBP).
Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) is computed on weekly basis to assess the price movements of essential items at shorter interval of time so as to review the current price situation in the country. SPI comprises of 51 necessary commodities which are being collected from 50 markets in 17 cities of the country.
Aspiring to be an AI Ethicist forming a global perspective on tech ethics when different societies around the world have very different perspectives on privacy, ethics and trust. Bi-lingual AI-Strategist and business leader with global experience in digitalisation, IIoT and industrial automation spanning over 14 years and 4 continents, I have successfully created and deployed innovative business models and cross-functional teams across geographies and cultures that have delivered measurable growth both organically and within new markets.
Currently, as Chief Intrapreneur, Octopus Digital at Avanceon (in the Middle East and Pakistan), my mission is to help C-suite executives with the digital transformation of their businesses using cloud computing, IIoT and Industry 4.0 standards all as an end-to-end “digitalization_as_a_service”. Additionally, as Director General & Group Advisor at Battle Tested Consultant (in France), my mandate is to help businesses create sustainable value via internationalisation.
Following the completion of my Computer Science degree with a gold medal, I began my career in Quality Assurance and Business Development roles where I developed vital skills with solution creation and cultivating channel partners.
As my career progressed and I moved into management positions, I started taking the lead with strategy development and building high performing internationally-based teams that deliver consistently high levels of service to both existing and new clients.
Today, as a senior-level executive with a proven track record of technical solutions sales, branding and strategy development, I can build and maintain active networks, broker revenue-generating agreements and pioneer effective solutions that can be successfully transferred across multiple markets, ensuring company growth.
The culmination of my experience to date means that I bring demonstrable experience in developing and maintaining high performing sales and operational teams in diverse and dynamic environments, mentoring end encouraging best practice and creative solutions as well as improving efficiencies and implementing processes and procedures on an international scale, delivered with both the insight and tactical judgement to ensure commercial success.
An entrepreneur with 25 years of multifaceted leadership experience in textile, tourism, real estate and telecom sector with role of managing large and focused teams, setting up units with challenging targets and managing and achieving output within assigned risk reward parameters.
Carrying huge exposure of the European market, my telecom journey started from Italy. For the last decade, I have worked laboriously to excel in Pakistan’s telecom market and move it forward by providing superior services and at least in the formative years thinking beyond the concept of profitability as a primary goal. Consequently, with my humble contributions and steadfast leadership, our company has attained a highly respectable and reliable status in the telecom business and has successfully become Gold Partner for Huawei and recently was awarded the Most Reliable Partner Award for 2017. In addition, the company in recent months has become the Tier One Partner for SAMSUNG. We now look forward to more challenging roles to take the overall Smartphone market in the country to new heights. I travel extensively abroad for business and pleasure which has given a cosmopolitan approach to my business working and relationships.
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