What is Telenor Velocity

Mehreen is a Certified Project Management & Scrum professional (PMP & SFC) with 7 years of experience in managing multiple complex/ large scale projects in diverse industries such as Manufacturing, Telecommunication & Retail. She is Dual specialized in Marketing & HR & has helped in setting up PMO in the Information Technology Division in her previous organizations.
She is also certified for implementing ITIL standardized procedures for good IT management, helping businesses to avoid the most common pitfalls in order to deliver the best quality services possible in order to increase productivity & reduce cost.
She has trained number of people on various Project Management methodologies (traditional- waterfall, Agile & Scrum) & other soft skills that project managers need to possess along with various certifications in order to become successful Project Managers.
She is has recently joined us as a Digital Accelerator Program Lead in Velocity in order to work closely with the cohorts and help them scale their business in this journey with Telenor Pakistan.

Amal Rathore is a UX Designer at Telenor Pakistan, working on products for the “Next Billion Users”. She brings together what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable — unlocking digital opportunities for all.

Ouzair has been providing services as a designer to startups and enterprise businesses for over 6 years. He worked as a User Experience and Interface Designer for successful Silicon Valley startup, KeepTruckin. Currently, he is working as a Product Designer for Telenor Pakistan on their Digital and IoT Products.

Jawad has a diverse career background primarily focusing on marketing and business development. Before joining Telenor, Jawad had worked at Amazon in the Media Group as Campaign Analyst managing digital campaigns for different advertisers on Amazon’s platform. He graduated from New York University with M.Sc. in Integrated Marketing.

Uzair Alvie is working as a Product Manager mAgri. He has over 10 years of experience in products and has served in Pakistan, Iran and Dubai. Mobile for development has always been his passion and has worked on several initiatives on how to improve lives of people in developing nations using mobile technology.

Passionate about creating products, Attique has over 10 years of escalating experience in product management, product marketing, analytics and innovation, with extensive knowledge in developing and managing content services. Working knowledge of design thinking, lean methodology and Agile. Challenging the status quo drives Attique to achieving the impossible, as he believes, “Nothing worth having comes easy”

Maria Pasha is a marketing specialist and completed her BSc and MBA from IBA – Karachi. She went on to complete an MSc in Strategic Marketing from the Imperial College London, UK, where she graduated with Distinction. Maria brings with her over 9 years of marketing strategy experience in startup, FMCG and development sector.

She was previously associated with the Aman Foundation in Karachi as Head of Brands and Marketing Partnerships. At Aman Foundation, Maria spearheaded the launch of digital marketing- using the power of digital assets to showcase the service industry.

Before that, she worked at ICI Pakistan as the Corporate Brand Manager where she designed and developed the organization’s new brand manual and brand guidelines post the acquisition of company by the Tabba Group. She also designed the 2013 ICI Annual & Sustainability Report which won the ACCA-WWF Award for best sustainability report.

In her free time, Maria loves to spend time with her family and her pets. She is an avid reader and likes to travel. Maria speaks Sindhi, Urdu, Seraiki and English and is learning German and French.

Madiha’s industry experience spans over 9 years with a focus on innovation and new product development.  She worked for multiple industries including Telecommunications, Financial Services, Oilfield services, Management Consulting and Startup Consulting both in the United States and Pakistan. Madiha was part of the launch team at easypaisa and launched several financial services products. She was the Co-founder and Director of DEMO Enterprises (Pvt.) Ltd, purpose of which is to successfully design and conduct entrepreneurship boot camps and provide consulting in impact driven verticals such as innovation and entrepreneurship. She is also Techstars community leader for Pakistan.  Madiha is the recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and completed her MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. She is also a speaker at several events. 

Nauman is a customer and need focused product junkie who gets extremely excited when building products that people want. With over 14 years in Product, he has spent many years at Microsoft in Redmond as a Product Manager for the Windows Live team working on products like Hotmail, Messenger, and Mobile. He was then working in Silicon Valley in Ed tech and Clean tech startups. For the last 2 and a half years, Nauman has been working on his own startup (Ropazi) which is in the messaging commerce space and is backed by Stanford and was part of Stanford’s top startup accelerator program, StartX. Nauman has an undergrad in Computer Science from Northern Arizona University and an MBA from Duke University.