Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Shazia Awan who is of British Pakistani descent has been named the UK’s best female Asian entrepreneur at the prestigious annual Asian Women of Achievement Awards held at London’s Park Lane Hilton. Shazia who was a Conservative Parliamentary candidate in the recent general election was nominated following the success of her start-up company Peachy Pink.

Tahir Mohsan is the founder of Time Computers, Supanet and Tpad, and currently manages several investment companies from his base in Dubai. Tahir Mohsan was born and educated in Blackburn and is one of five brothers. He comes from a family of Pakistani origin and has been one of the richest young British Pakistanis. In 1987, at the age of 16, he founded Time Computers, which went on to become Britain’s largest PC manufacturer with a turnover of over $750 million.

Zameer Mohammed Choudrey, Baron Choudrey CBE SI Pk (Urdu: ضمیر چوہدری‎; born March 1958) is a British billionaire businessman, and the chief executive of Bestway, the UK's thirteenth-largest privately owned UK business and ninth-largest family-owned business with a turnover in excess of £3.4 billion and founded by his uncle, Sir Anwar Pervez.

Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born 30 January 1974) is a British-Pakistani TV, film and documentary producer and founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. She was formerly a journalist and associate editor of The New Statesman, a British political and cultural magazine, and European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. Goldsmith married Pakistan's now (2020) Prime Minister and former cricketer Imran Khan in 1995 and had two sons, Suleiman and Kasim.

Adeeba Malik was born in Bradford and trained as a teacher. She taught religious education in a Bradford school before joining QED in 1992 where she manages a number of social, educational and economical projects.

Adeeba also has extensive experience of working with major public and private companies on equality and diversity projects.

Abdul Raoof Malik was born on 1st September 1973 in Bristol; he attended Whitehall Primary School and then completed his secondary education at Whitfield Fishponds Secondary School. He left school after completing (unsuccessfully) his GCSE’s and at the age of 17, he went to Pakistan and got married as per the wish of his parents. He later returned to his education and gained 5 GCSE's and completed his further education whilst running his businesses.

Zahida Parveen Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor CBE (born 25 May 1958) is an English businessperson and public appointee, who was elevated to the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer in 2013. From 2003 to 2011 she served as the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales, reporting directly to Parliament.