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Mr. Aziz Memon - Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Mr Aziz Memon is also the Chairman of the Board of Orion Solar Power's parent company, the Kings Group. A closely held, $120 million diversified conglomerate, the Group has interests in commodities trading, construction, farming, manufacturing, oil, retail, textile, travel & leisure and water purification. The Kings Apparel Industries, another of the Group's subsidiaries, is Pakistan's largest exporter of knitted textile garments, whose major clients include Walmart, Target, JC Penney, Nike and Sears.
A well respected business and civic leader, Mr. Memom serves on the board of various organizations, including as Chairman of Karachi Garment City, Secretary General of Pakistan-Italy Business Forum, President of Pakistan-Japan Business Forum and as a member of the Board of Governors of Higher Education Support Organization. |
Previously, Mr. Memon has served as Chairman of Pakistan-USA Trade and Industry Commission, The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Citizen-Police Liaison Committee, the Pakistan Knitwear Exporters Association and the Textile Quota Supervisory Council.
Mr. Memon has represented Pakistan at numerous International Conferences and Seminars, including the United Nations ESCAP Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2006 held at Jakarta, Indonesia in April 2006; accompanied Prime Minister Mr. Shoukat Aziz to Turkey and Lebanon in May 2005; at the ITC Executive Forum held in Montreux, Switzerland in 2004; the 2003 WTO 5th Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico; accompanied President Musharraf to the joint meeting on Investment Promotion in Tokyo, Japan in March, 2002 and at the ILO Symposium on the Social and Labour Consequences of Technological Developments held at Geneva in September 1999.
As a distinguished business leader, Mr. Memon has been extensively quoted in numerous international publications, including a recent in-depth profile of him in Forbes Magazine.
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Mr. Karim Pirani - Co-Founder, President and Member Board of Directors
As Orion Solar Power's President and Executive Incharge of its international business development, Mr. Karim Pirani brings a wealth of experience to the company. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Pirani was the Creative Director and Chief Copy Writer of Atlantis Advertising, a New York City based advertising and marketing company which specialized in creating print advertising for companies on New York's Seventh Avenue. Also in 1994, at the dawn of the Internet age, Mr. Pirani founded one of the earliest internet based online shopping portals, Cyberspaced.com.
Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Pirani ran a Cayman Island based boutique investment hedge fund. As managing general partner of Synergic Investment Management (SIM), Mr. Pirani delivered an enviable rate of return for investors in this limited partnership fund. SIM was an early investor in then obscure companies like Amazon, America Online and eBay which all went on to become household names of today. |
Currently, Mr. Pirani is actively involved in developing various businesses in Pakistan's many high growth sectors including affordable housing, alternative fuels and petroleum, power generation, retail, etc. Through Medical Equipment Distribution Company ( MEDCO), he has been at the forefront in promoting to the international biotech and pharmaceutical companies, the quality of Pakistan's healthcare infrastructure and the depth of its brain trust. With the active help and support of the Pakistani Government, Mr. Pirani has been the driving force in organizing the “First International Symposium on Pakistan’s Clinical Research Program” in Islamabad in the first week of September 2007 to help highlight the country as a logical choice for foreign biotech companies to outsource their clinical trial programs. Also, through another one of his companies, Pure Aqua Water Filtration, Mr. Pirani is again closely working with the Pakistani Government in the setting up of an extensive, country-wide water purification system that will run on wind and solar power to help reduce global warming by curbing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Mr. Pirani has a B.S. in International Business and Marketing and currently resides in San Diego, California and Karachi, Pakistan.
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Ms. Naheed Memon - Director Operations
As Orion Solar Power ’s Director of Operations, Ms. Naheed Memon’s depth of experience is going to be vital in developing the company’s business in Pakistan.
Currently Ms. Memon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kings Group and as Executive Vice President she oversees the development and expansion of the Group’s various business units. Additionally, Ms. Memon also serves as the Managing Director of two of the Group’s divisions, the Travel & Leisure Division and the Retail Division.
Between 1998-2004, Ms. Memon ran a business consultancy firm in London, England. The firm specialized in developing Information Systems projects for its clients who included numerous Small and Medium Enterprises or SMEs and also many Public Sector Organizations (PSOs). Previously, Ms. Memon worked at Merrill Lynch, London as a Private Banker for its high net worth clients.
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Ms. Memon earned a Msc in Economics from University of London’s Birkbeck College and also an MBA from Imperial College, London. She has also taught courses on business, finance and economics at various universities both in Pakistan and England.
Ms. Memon is actively involved in various social and philanthropic organizations in Pakistan. |
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