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Rao Salman Akhter
Strategic Business Head - MMS
rao.salman@tcs.com.pk
Salman comes with a
multidisciplinary
education in Engineering
with a Masters in Business
Administration and over 7
years of diverse work
experience. He joined TCS on the 1st
of February 2006 in Sales Planning,
and after 6 months was transferred to
Mail Management Solutions (MMS) as
Sales and Marketing Manager
responsible for designing and
executing the integrated marketing
campaign among corporate customers.
“My biggest challenge was the
installation of a Print Shop and I was
also a part of the team responsible for
procuring the equipment,” says
Salman, who is now designated as
Strategic Business Head for MMS.
Before TCS Salman was in Philips
working as Marketing Manager
Consumer Channel. Prior to Philips
Salman spent one year at ABB- Asea
Brown Boweri as Project Manager, a
Switzerland based multinational in the
same line of work world wide as
Siemens. He started his career in 1999
as an Electrical Engineer in the Textiles
Industry which he says was an
experience that he will never forget.
Salman was born on the 18th June
1977 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) where
his father worked as a banker. He did
his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
from the NED University in Karachi,
and obtained a MBA in Marketing from
College of Business and Management
(Karachi). He is one of four brothers
and two sisters, and cites cricket,
movies, food, traveling, exploring new
places and meeting new people as his
interests outside of work.
George Clooney is Salman’s favourite
movie star and The City of Angels his
favourite movie.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rao Salman
Akhter at your service!
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Imran Younus
Vice President, Finance
imran.younus@tcs.com.pk
Imran is the money-man at TCS,
tasked with keeping an eye on cashflows
and related matters. He was born
in Karachi on May 8th, 1969, and is
married with two sons Muhammad
Saad who is 11 years old and
Muhammad Zaid who is 7.
Imran did his M.Com from Karachi
University, and is a Fellow Member of
The Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Pakistan, a Fellow Member of The
Institute of Cost and Management
Accountants of Pakistan, an Associate
Member of The Institute of Chartered
Secretaries of Pakistan, a Certified
Internal Auditor from Institute of Internal
Auditors, USA, a Certified Information
System Auditor from the Institute of
Systems Audit and Control Association
USA, and a Certified Fraud Examiner
from the Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners USA.
His mathematical inclinations are
inherited, it appears, since Imran’s
father is a Fellow Member of The
Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (CIMA), UK, and presently
working as a consultant in a
pharmaceutical company.
Between April 1995 and June 1996 he
served with TCS as its Chief
Accountant. During the period July
1996 to December 2004 he served as
Deputy Head Internal Audit with ABV
Rock Group KB, a Swedish
Construction Company based in Saudi
Arabia.
Imran’s work philosophy is centered
in planning his assignments accurately,
and executing them with utmost
professionalism meeting all
deliverables. He believes in team-work
and group effort, with confidence in
colleagues and sub-ordinates. Imran’s
extra-curricular interests extend to
playing cricket, reading books, surfing
the Internet, debating, and assisting
his children in their studies.
Ladies and gentlemen, Imran Younus
at your service!
20 2009, Vol: 8 / Issue: 1