Board of Directors
The management of the Company vests in the Board of Directors which performs major functions of policy formulation, implementation and monitoring and the day to day work in the Company is managed and carried out by highly professional and skilled men and women working for the Company.
Brief background and responsibilities of three working and other directors are given below :-
Mr. Arshad Saeed joined the Company on 9 January 2014 as a Director against the position vacated by Mr. Muhammad Azhar. He has 39 years of service in the Federal Government and has a Masters in Economics from the University of Punjab, as also a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. He brings with him a wealth of experience in different government organizations over a period of 39 years. His core interests are economics, management and finance. He has also served in the State Cement Corporation of Pakistan as General Managers Finance and Operations. During his service he attended various courses and trainings in Pakistan and abroad, and has widely travelled around the world in connection with his job and education, and also to attend meetings, seminars and conferences.
Ch. Rahman Bakhsh, also a founding member of the Company, has served for almost 18 years on the Board. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree as well as a Bachelor of Law degree. Prior to joining RTIL, he practiced law and spent twenty-six years as a Senior Law Officer in the Administration and Law Department of Imperial Construction Company (Pvt.) Limited.
Mr. Muhammad Musharraf Khan is a Chartered Accountant currently working in Fatima Energy Limited. He has extensive experience of the textile Sector and has been serving as the Independent Director of the Company since 2014.
Ms. Kiran Arshand Chaudhry is the most recent addition to the Board working as Director Operations and Marketing since October 2006. She has a B.A. (Honors) degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford and a Postgraduate qualification in Law from Nottingham Law School, United Kingdom and had been practicing as a Solicitor in the Commercial Litigation department at the London offices of the international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (February 2002-April 2006). In view of her solid background, she has been inducted to further consolidate and upgrade existing operations and expand the international reach of the Company in terms of reinforcing its export focus and taking the Company further into the next Century. She has traveled widely and speaks several languages including English, Spanish and French.
Mr. Kamran Ilyas, has been serving on the Board since November 1998. Mr. Kamran is a Chartered Accountant by profession and due to his strong background in accounting and finance he has been a guide to the Company in the areas of Internal Audit and Risk management. He heads the Audit Committee. Side by side, Mr. Kamran Ilyas is a member of the senior management team of TOTAL PARCO.
Mr. Muhammad Ali Chaudhry is the youngest Director on the Board, who is looking after Finance at Resham Textile Industries Limited. He is additionally responsible for overseeing general management and monitoring the various technical functions. Prior to joining the company he completed an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the U.K. (Atlantic College), business education from Canada (University of Toronto) and worked as a corporate banker for several years after completing a Masters in Business Administration. During his banking career he worked on a sizeable asset portfolio of PKR over 2.5 Billion in form of funded and unfunded lending to leading corporations in the Textile, Sugar, Edible Oil and Energy sectors.