Mr. Ziad Chowdhrey

Mr. Ziad Chowdhrey is a Chartered Accountant by profession and had started his career at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) Pakistan.

Presently, as the Country CFO at Novartis Pharma (Pakistan) Limited, Ziad has responsibilities for all Novartis Pakistan divisions including Sandoz and Alcon.

Together with his previous role as CFO & Director at Bayer Pakistan, Ziad has vast experience of leading financial strategies to facilitate Companies’ growth plans. He possess hands on experience of restructurings, diversified projects, divesture, merger and change management with a proven ability to challenge and improve processes though effective business partnering.

During the past several years, he has held various leadership and management responsibilities for Business Services and Corporate Platform functions for South Asian Countries. Such enriching responsibilities provided him with opportunities to lead various projects that involved significant change management, for which he had also been awarded and recognized.

Ziad contributed significantly to improve both productivity and profitability of the organisation through these projects, which also involved development of smart strategies, solutions and analysis.

While based in Germany, he had worked for Bayer HealthCare AG in Projects / Pre-Study involving business case evaluations and Optimization of end to end processes, such as Order to Cash, at global level.

Ziad has also been the trainer for ‘Learning and Education program of PwC’ and is frequently invited as a speaker at various public forums. He also possesses a vast experience of training and coaching senior managers on Finance topics.