User:Ahmarazam

In 1994, Ahmar Azam started his professional career at Horwath Clark Whitehill Chartered Accountants UK, a Top 10 accounting firm, where he gained accounting and auditing experience in a well diversified industry sector. Subsequently, his family moved to the U.S.[] where he continued his professional career working as a manager at Deloitte, New York (auditing and advisory), specializing in foreign banks. After leaving Deloitte, he served as a Corporate Financial Controller for a leading publicly held clinical research company (Life Sciences Research Inc.) , and subsequently as the Head of internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley []expert for a multi billion publicly held real estate finance company (Centerline Capital Group, previously CharterMac Corp.). At CharterMac Corp., Ahmar acquired and developed professional expertise to deliver internal auditing, SOX [] requirements and Finance and Accounting related processes in an offshore environment. This experience eventually led to the birth of Hanagrove.

Before launching Hanagrove, Ahmar worked as an Executive Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan, a leading foreign bank, where he served as General Manager of the Wall Street Branch and as the Head of Enterprise-wide Risk Management, Americas Region. He has also served as a member of the Legal & Regulatory Committee of the Institute of International Bankers, USA (IIB) and several other risk management and auditing organization. Ahmar is an active part of the banking and professional community in the Tri-State. He is also a trained public and motivational speaker.

Ahmar Azam received B.Sc Honors (Accounting and Finance) from the London School of Economics and Political Science []. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)[]. Ahmar and his wife are happily married with three beautiful and intelligent kids.