Rehan Akhtar

Rehan Akhtar is a senior executive with diverse work experience in transformational leadership, creating new business revenues, setting up new divisions, redesigning and repositioning products and brands. As Chief Digital Officer at Karandaaz Pakistan, his mission is to increase financial inclusion by catalyzing innovation in the public and private sectors. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office fund the program. Rehan has led business transformations of B2B and Customer Services divisions in Telenor and created a brand and portfolio of products and services for B2B segments. In these capacities, he focused on driving innovation, customer centricity, and digital transformation agenda. He has a deep interest in developing market systems for Financial Inclusion. Rehan holds an MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore.