Hussam Raza Email & Phone Number

Lahore, PK

- Developed an analytical framework, digital strategy, roadmap for digitalization and action plan for agriculture based digital innovations across four countries (Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) for FAO’s 1000 Digital Village initiative as part of FAO United Nation’s Asia and Pacific office work stream. The resulting report is being used by.

- Designed a program and model for capacity building of startups on investment readiness and delivered a market assessment that maps demand of investors with gaps in supply with the aim of designing a comprehensive, bespoke investment readiness program for the private sector- Managed the design and delivery of the Trade and Investment Promotion Strategy.

Islamabad, Pakistan

‒ Led the ICT sector program team to identify, design and develop partnerships, projects and interventions for addressing key sectoral challenges in the ICT and Logistics sectors in Pakistan with the aim of increasing SME revenues, exports and jobs.‒ Identified, designed and implemented ICT projects and interventions with more than 30 SME’s from the ICT.

Pakistan

• Managing and leading a team of Business Advisers, providing strategic direction to the team and supporting them in achieving KPI's by conducting economic and business analysis, developing stakeholder relationships and.
• Communicating with and managing donor expectations
• Developing Annual Strategic Plans for establishing KPI's, milestones and targets
• Meeting partnership targets and ensuring a quality, balanced portfolio that delivers results on a partnership as well as a sector level
• Leading the formulation of sector and market system strategies
• Developing annual and monthly budget forecasts and financial projections

Lahore, Pakistan

- Forged large scale partnerships with significant private and public sector players, like Telenor and AKRSP - Working cross-sectorally and with different technical teams to help them think through complex partnership models- Leading negotiations and managing key internal and external stakeholders - Setting up of a company regional office in Karachi, hiring.

Lahore, Pakistan

− Identified opportunities, designed, managed and implemented interventions with large and regional strategic private players, including top tier agri-input companies and processors like FMC, Ali Akbar Group and National Foods.- Analyzing strategic engagement areas of the economy in a quantitative and qualitative manner and developing growth strategies.

Lahore

- Handling media placement and promotion of some of the top brands in Pakistan on Geo News & Geo Super‒ Direct responsibility of business development and maximizing revenue‒ Built relationships with different clients and bought in more than USD 2.5 million of revenue over the course of 3 years.

Lahore

- To conceptualize, develop, launch and manage new B2C products & services from end to end, manage the product life cycle of existing products by introduction of revenue enhancing initiatives as well as striving for the achievement of team objectives and managing day to day activities across a portfolio of solutions.‒ Developed, launched and managed the.

- Managing and executing projects with internal departments for new product launches, including evaluating product proposals, conducting UAT’s and developing post-launch complaint handling mechanisms- Escalation, management and resolution of network related complaints for B2B customers

Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Music

Institute, Business And Information Technology

A-Levels, Business, Economics, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Conducting creative writing workshops Debating Sports