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 Ghazanfar Iqbal  (born December 01, 1981, in Gujranwala, Pakistan) co-founded AutoSahulat a startup working towards empowering mechanics in Pakistan which was funded by Antler a startup generator company based in Singapore. He also has over a decade of experience working in the corporate sector and was part of Telenor's entrepreneurial program Ignite where he was incubated in Oslo, Bangkok, and Singapore. Iqbal is an Acumen Fellow and a mentor at National Incubation Centre Islamabad. He also represented Pakistan as a delegate at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations attending the on-campus program with other delegates from around the world.

In 2017 through Telenor Iqbal visited the Facebook offices in Singapore to learn about their way of work and came back with those learnings to implement the best practices at local Telenor offices. Iqbal has been featured on numerous platforms conversing on different topics to support not only startup diaspora but helping students and professionals understand how to navigate into the corporate and startup world. Iqbal recently was part of the conversation on agile and traditional methodology through Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology. He is also a member of the CXO Global Forum a knowledge-sharing platform for professionals. He has been featured twice through this platform discussing his journey and later was part of a roundtable discussion on “Growth Mindset”. Iqbal has also been associated with FasterCapital to provide technical, business, and investment services to startups in Pakistan.

Currently, Iqbal is working as a Country Head Corporate Sales in Careem and is also a founder of GuzPro a YouTube channel that acts as a digital media enterprise incorporating different online platforms to share inside-out strategies and motivational content to help students, inspire learners and professionals to grow and thrive.

In 2020 Iqbal did a piece on a startup failure for India Development Review.

References

Telenor Ignite https://www.telenor.com/telenor-group-takes-seven-internal-startups-to-bootcamp/ https://www.phoneworld.com.pk/autosahulat-telenor-pakistan-amongst-winners-telenor-groups-employee-innovation-program-ignite-2018/ Antler Singapore https://e27.co/startup-generator-antler-unveils-13-startups-at-its-first-demo-day-20190110/ AutoSahulat https://propakistani.pk/2018/11/19/autosahulat-secures-pre-seed-funding-of-100000/ https://www.techjuice.pk/autosahulat-raises-pre-seed-funding-from-antler/ https://www.orangeink.pk/auto-sahulat-breakdown-wont-break-you-down-anymore/ http://www.pbit.gop.pk/Autosahulat%20CEO%20%26%20CMO%20visited%20PBIT FasterCapital https://fastercapital.com/regionalpartner/ghazanfar-iqbal.html Acumen Fellowship https://acumenacademy.org/meet-the-fellows/ghazanfar-iqbal India Development Review (IDR) https://idronline.org/to-bribe-or-not-to-bribe/ Facebook https://propakistani.pk/problog/heres-experience-went-facebooks-singapore-hq/