User:Masood Butt/Masood Butt

Masood Butt born and educated in Pakistan to a conservative family.

After completing his Masters in Economics from Punjab University, Lahore he migrated to United Kingdomin 1991 and commenced his Masters in Business Administration in Birmingham University where he met his wife as a fellow student.

Masood Butt started to work as a Business Adviser with Business Link Birmingham on self-employed basis. In 1997 he was hired to deliver a business support project funded by Birmingham City Council to engage the businesses in the deprived areas of Birmingham towards mainstream business support programs. Having successfully delivered the project he was taken as a business networks development manager to develop and grow the business groups in the City of Birmingham. In 2000 he became the first British Pakistani to lead the Institute of Asian Businesses for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He became passionate about the lack of business support and social discrimination and engaged a number of organisations and leaders to work towards better business development support and set up various outreach programs to ensure community engagement, women empowerment and youth development.

He frequently highlighted the disparity in the delivery of services in the deprived areas and encouraged local traders to get organised to form networks for lobbying, policy development and better services. During this period he organised trade missions to Los Angles, France, Dubai, Pakistan and India. In 2003 he graduated from Common Purpose as an emerging leader of Birmingham business community.

In 2004 he attended Master Programme in Emotional Intelligence and perfected himself in brain based learning techniques. He commenced his training company to share his knowledge. He promoted his training and consultancy work in Pakistan and became approved provider of Centre for International Private Enterprises (CIPE), Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Authority (SMEDA) of Pakistan and Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Later on he served on the business and economy committee of the Muslim Council of Britain. He was invited to attend the World Muslim Leaders conference in Malaysia and he chaired the group on Education where the needs for a uniform system of quality education in the Muslim countries was highlighted as the need of the time.

He has trained most of the business groups, chambers and associations of Pakistan. He supported the women empowerment program in Pakistan and as a result managed to set up resource centres in Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry. While in Pakistan he started to learn Music from Ustad Nasir Uddin Sami, Grandnson of famous TanRas Khan and took regular classes in the theory and practice of vocal and instrumental music. He also studied instrumental music from late Ustad Rafiq Hussain, a renowned music composer and director.

In 2008 he returned to UK and started to work as a freelance business mentor for a number of private clients. Masood Butt is a business community activist who advocates respect, harmony and tolerance at all levels.

In 2012 was conferred with Graduate Diploma in Law from Nottingham Law School and after practicing in various solicitors firms as a paralegal/Free Earner he went on to complete his legal practice course in Birmingham City University with commendation. He is Member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and CiTMA.

He set up MB Legal to offer business and legal consultancy services to Small and Medium Enterprises in food and drinks, health care and education sectors. He is a specialist adviser to Food and Drinks sector with special emphasis on compliance and defences of regulatory law in the Meat production and distribution industry. He provides his legal services as a fee earner through Pambrook Solicitors in Birmingham, in addition to providing in-house legal services to SMEs in the corporate sector. He is owner of Business Law Ltd trading as MB Legals.

He supports South Asian Peoples Forum and is influenced by Abid_Hassan_Minto, the eminent constitutional lawyer and President of Pakistan Workers Party.