LUMS Entrepreneurship & SME Center
Overview
Asad A. Alam
Patron, LUMS Entrepreneurial Society
Asad is Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with extensive knowledge and experience in assurance and business advisory. He did his MBA in entrepreneurship from University of Wisconsin – Madison with specialization in analyzing startups and private equity markets. While at Madison , Asad represented the school at various venture capital investment and business plan competitions and won numerous awards and grants. He was also involved in launching Entrepreneurship Association, a not for profit organization with a mission to create awareness among students regarding entrepreneurial ventures, and acted as the CFO. Asad has considerable experience in the areas of financial audit, business valuation, financial projections and family business planning and has provided a wide range of consulting services to various small and medium sized businesses in the United States . Currently he is teaching business combination (merger and acquisition), corporate financial reporting and entrepreneurship courses to BSc. and MBA students. He is also involved in coaching and mentoring new business startups and teaching seminars through Rausing Executive Development Center (REDC) at LUMS to mid to upper management of various local and multinational companies.
Arif Iqbal Rana
Director, Entrepreneurship
and Small and Medium Enterprises Center (ESMEC)
Associate Professor,
Operations Management
PhD, Rennselaer
Polytechnic Institute
MSc, Purdue University
Email:arif@lums.edu.pk
Dr. Rana has published
papers in Computer & Operations Research, European
Journal of Operations
Research, Journal of the Operational Research
Society, International
Journal of Supply Chain Management and Malaysian Journal of Small
and Medium Enterprises. His research interests are
in the areas of supply chain management, productivity and project management.
He has done work related to improving quality, productivity and
inventory management practices for companies in the knitwear and leather industries.
He has been Consultant/Academic Advisor for a couple of
Universities, where he helped them develop and implement new systems
for faculty evaluation and development, as well
as upgrading their curriculum and facilities. He is currently
heading the Textile Productivity initiative at LUMS.