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KEY BUSINESS EXECUTIVES
Navid Fazil is a Founding Director & CEO of Interloop Limited. He is also a Member of
the Boards of IL Bangla Limited & Interloop Holdings (Pvt.) Limited and Vice President of
Interloop Welfare Trust. Navid enjoys more than 27 years’ experience as a business leader and
entrepreneur and has played a key role in developing Interloop Limited as one of the world’s
largest Hosiery manufacturing and export business.
Navid is an Electrical Engineer and earned his Master in Industrial Management from the
University of Oxford, UK. With a technically trained and intellectual mind, he puts great
emphasis on continuously improving the Hosiery Operations and has a special focus on Lean
Manufacturing, Research & Innovation and Sustainability. Navid is actively involved in many
social responsibility programs, both professionally and personally.
Navid Fazil
Chief Executive Officer / Executive
Director
Tariq Rashid Malik is one of the Founding Directors of Interloop Limited. As President Yarns
& Sourcing at Interloop Limited, he is managing all procurement and sourcing activities of
Interloop and looking after the Spinning Division. He is also a Founding Director of IL Bangla
Limited and presently serving as it’s Managing Director, based at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
As part of his professional commitments, he travels extensively across the globe and is
pursuing a sustainable procurement model where materials, goods, utilities and services are
arranged in an environmentally-friendly, responsible and ethical way. He envisions Interloop
to continuously grow as a profitable entity, to scale excellence in Hosiery business and also
expand in to non-textile sectors. Tariq is an Economics & Political Science graduate from the
University of Punjab, Lahore.
Tariq Rashid Malik
President Yarns & Sourcing
Muhammad Maqsood is President/Group CFO Interloop Limited, Executive Director on
Interloop Limited’s Board & CEO, IL Apparel (Pvt.) Limited. He is also a Member of the Boards
of Interloop Dairies, IL Apparel (Pvt.) Limited, Texlan Center (Pvt.) Limited and Interloop
Welfare Trust. With an overall experience of 23 years, Maqsood’s association with Interloop
spans 16+ years.
His current responsibility portfolio includes finance, taxation, yarn sales and supply chain
& logistics. Maqsood is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
& Institute of Financial Accountants, UK and trained at INSEAD on Strategic Financial
Management in Global Markets.
Muhammad Maqsood
President / Group CFO
Azhar Sadiq is Vice President Hosiery Operations at Interloop Limited since 2014 and is the
first employee to rise to the level, after starting his career with Interloop in 1998 as a junior
officer. He has led various functions including manufacturing, planning, quality assurance and
strategic HR.
Being a Lean manufacturing expert, Azhar is leading Lean transformation at Interloop and
has spearheaded many breakthroughs in KAIZEN application. His management philosophy
is based on learning by doing, developing autonomous teams, delegating and a structured
organizational approach. Azhar holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Interloop Limited Vice President Hosiery Operations
Azhar Sadiq
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Faryal Sadiq is Vice President Sales & Marketing at Interloop Limited. She is responsible for
all aspects of business development, sales and customer service across Interloop’s Europe,
North America and Japan markets.
Before joining Interloop in 2016, Faryal worked for over 10 years as a management consultant
at Ernst & Young and Deloitte, UK, specializing in the consumer products and retail industry.
She has advised clients on a range of areas including commercial strategy, operating model,
enterprise cost reduction and growth strategies, and has delivered multiple transformation
programs working with global clients including Tesco, Waitrose, J. Sainsbury’s, British
American Tobacco, L’Oreal, Universal Studios and World Rugby.
Faryal Sadiq Faryal has an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an Economics Major from the London
Vice President Sales & Marketing School of Economics.
Feroze Ahmed is Vice President Denim at Interloop Limited and oversees the Business
Development, Operations & Quality Assurance functions. Feroze began his career with Ernst
& Young, UK in their business advisory practice and worked on projects involving operating
model redesign, cost reduction and post-merger integration, for renowned organizations.
In 2011, Feroze joined Banco Santander to lead the post-merger integration of Santander’s
digital banking channel after making strategic acquisitions in the UK banking sector. Prior to
joining Interloop in 2016, Feroze was managing the implementation of digital initiatives across
the corporate, retail and wealth segment at Barclays UK.
Feroze graduated from the University of Toronto in Economics and pursued his postgraduate
degree in International Business & Emerging Markets from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Feroze Ahmed
Vice President Denim
Zain Sadiq is serving as Vice President at Interloop Limited. He supervised setting up of Plant
4; Interloop’s cutting-edge LEED Gold Certified Hosiery manufacturing facility commissioned
in 2018, and is currently looking after further expansion of Hosiery business by overseeing
establishment of Plant 5, at Faisalabad.
He started his professional career at Interloop Dairies Limited where he was member of the
core team responsible for project visualization and establishment of a 2,500 milking heads
dairy farm. Interloop Dairies, with the current herd size of 4,538 cattle, is one of the leading
modern dairy farms in Pakistan.
Zain graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Economics in 2009 from Davidson College,
Zain Sadiq North Carolina, USA. Having interest in finance, he pursued the Chartered Financial Analyst
Vice President Certification after college and became Level 2 qualified.
Yaqub Ahsan is working as the Chief Information Officer at Interloop Limited and is looking
after the Information Technology function. Yaqub is a technology enthusiast. His areas of
interest include knowledge based venture creation and commercialization of technology. Over
the past 25 years, Yaqub has worked with various multi-national organizations in Pakistan,
the Middle East and North America and has been involved in multiple entrepreneurial and
intrapreneurial initiatives. He has held multiple senior level technical and management
positions at IBM and other technology companies. He has wide teaching experience and has
conducted trainings in Pakistan and overseas.
Yaqub holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering 2018 - 19
Chief Information Officer Technology from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Annual Report
& Technology, Lahore, Pakistan and a Master’s degree in Business, Entrepreneurship &
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