Would you like to expedite your career?
IPN Presents, “Fast-Track Your Career Path: Tips from an Executive Coach on Preparing for C-suite and Leadership Roles”. This interactive event, featuring Zahir Ladhani, Vice President, Aga Khan Council for USA, will be hosted in Dallas, TX on September 23rd 2017 from 12:00pm-3:00pm.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in professional development. Register today by clicking Here!
Webinar Topic: How To Find Your Ideal Next Job
Are you looking for a job? Are you about to quit your job? Did you get laid off? Are you not happy in your current job?
If you answered yes to any one of these questions, you may find this webinar informative and useful. In this session you will learn the framework for building a lifelong network as well as the best practices and tools to find your next job.
Presenter: Akbar Jaffer, is an Executive Coach and a Branding Expert. He currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer of ZorroSign, Inc.
Don’t miss out on the 50 minute session on Tuesday, September 19th 2017 at 7 pm PST.
To register online click Here!
IPN Spotlight: Moez M. Kaba (Partner, Hueston Hennigan, LLP)
Moez is the Founding Partner of the law firm of Hueston Hennigan, LLP. Hueston Hennigan is a boutique firm that handles complex civil litigation and business disputes. It has around 40 lawyers and they represent clients in various practice areas. Moez graduated from Cornell University in 2002 and from Columbia Law School in 2005. Thereafter, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Although Moez lives in Los Angeles, he believes he is a product of the Chicago Jamat.
What skills have helped you in your career?
• Listening
• Thinking critically and creatively
• Persistence
• Public speaking
What do you wish you had known or done differently throughout your career?
I largely focused on developing my legal skills after graduating law school. Although that has been important, I wish I spent more time networking. As a partner, my work is both advocacy for existing clients and developing new clients. The latter requires networking and marketing.
What do you do for continuing education and improvement?
A lot of reading on developments in the law. Talking to my colleagues both within and outside of my firm on their approaches to complicated legal issues. Watching other lawyers.
What is next for you in your career?
Continuing to grow our law firm and expanding our reach.
What advice would you offer to others?
Focus on being the best at what you do, without hesitation and without excuse. And don’t allow yourself to be diminished by others because you look different than everyone else in your industry.
Areas where you can help other Ismailis:
• Law student mentorship
• Legal issues
Please provide the link to your LinkedIn profile:
Moez Kaba
If you would like to nominate someone to be a part of the spotlight, click Here.
IPN Spotlight: Megan Jaffer (Task Force Lead/Strategist, Noblis NSP)
Megan Jaffer currently serves as a senior advisor to the President and Senior Management team of Noblis NSP, a defense and intelligence community contractor. As a key Strategist, Consultant, and Program Implementer, Megan works to streamline activities within Noblis NSP based on the priorities of the President and Senior Management. Megan has substantial experience in business analysis, strategic corporate communications, and managing program deliverables, as well as in budgeting, strategic planning, and change management. She has spent the bulk of her career in organizational leadership and outreach. In 2015, Megan co-founded a women in intelligence organization, which focuses on the development of professional women serving the US national security mission. Megan holds a B.A. in International Relations from DePaul University and an M.A. in Korean Studies from Yonsei University.
What skills have helped you in your career?
• Perseverance
• Hard-work
• Problem solving
• Connecting people
• Sincere listener
What do you wish you had known or done differently throughout your career?
I am thrilled at where I am in my career, however, there have been many lessons learned. I wish I would have worried less about the path I took and realized early on that you learn something from every good and bad experience in your career. Those experiences will help you be a better employee, student and/or leader in the future! I would have started networking much earlier in my career!
What do you do for continuing education and improvement?
I always try to identify one new subject matter or area of work in each job or organization I’m in that I am less familiar with and seek to get a more detailed level of knowledge on that topic. Part of that effort involves finding a mentor in that area and working with them to develop my skill set.
What is next for you in your career?
I want to continue to learn and be challenged. I look forward to helping others navigate their career paths.
My personal goal is to become a Chief Operating Officer for a defense/intelligence community contractor.
What advice would you offer to others?
Be honest with yourself and with those you work with. If you have a passion and know where you want to go with your career, never give up. A good leader knows their strengths and their weaknesses; and is not afraid to surround themselves with smart people.
Areas where you can help other Ismailis:
• Job placement
• Mentoring
• Making connections in the National Security space
• Sounding board
Please provide the link to your LinkedIn profile:
Megan Jaffer
If you would like to nominate someone to be a part of the spotlight, click Here.
Archival Videos – Raw Videos from the Plenary Sessions.
Sessions were held at the Diamond Jubilee Alliances Conference held September 2018.
Friday Sessions
Sabeen Dhanani Intro & President Nizar Remarks
Chairman Celina Sherrif
Chairman Zubair Talib
Sabeen Dhanani Wrap Up
Saturday Sessions
Sabeen Morning Intro
Fahim Morning about DJAC
VP Zahir Welcome and Guidance
Antasha – Mentor Moments Intro
Sabeen Dhanani Morning Closing
The presenter(s) have granted permission for use of this content for IPN members only. Please do not share this content outside of IPN without requesting permission from the presenter(s).
The first 5 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2017.
Launched in 2012, Alliance Conference Canada (ACC) began as a platform to facilitate strategic business and professional alliances. In these 5 years, ACC has grown beyond alliances into a highly anticipated, annual forum for Ismaili business and professional leaders to leverage our community’s diverse social, intellectual and economic strengths.
To help realize Mawlana Hazar Imam’s priorities for the Diamond Jubilee year, we are especially challenged to think bigger and act bolder – to harness our knowledge capital, to shape our future, and build for generations to come.
We are proud to introduce IGNITE SUMMIT 2017 focused on catalyzing our professional and personal growth.
We welcome seasoned, aspiring and early-career professionals, entrepreneurs, and alliance members to join us on the weekend of October 27-29, 2017 in Vancouver, BC.
▪ Collaborate with business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and luminaries
▪ Leverage scale and identify best practices
▪ Enable professional growth and development
▪ Drive disruptive thinking and value creation
This is your personal invitation – please mark your calendar now. Early bird registration launches this summer, and more details will be shared over the coming weeks.
CONNECT | NURTURE | HARNESS | INSPIRE
Actuarial and Risk Management – Actuarial and Risk Team
Webinar was held on Saturday, June 24, 2017
Program Overview
The Ismaili Professional Network Actuarial and Risk group held its first webinar for Students and professionals interested in exploring the field of actuarial science. This introductory webinar was designed to briefly discuss basics of Actuarial profession (to help students gain deeper insights with career choices) and how the profession is emerging with ever changing dynamics of the society.
Speaker Profiles
Arif Virani – McKinsey (New York)
Zeeshan Rehmani – KPMG (Atlanta)
Zeeshan Rehmani is an Actuary with KPMG based in Atlanta. He has been focused on areas including Strategy, Value Based Management, Risk and Capital Management, Investments and Transformation. His clients include the world’s largest multinational financial services institutions. Prior to KPMG Zeeshan was an Actuary with AIG and played a key strategic role in the payback to the US Federal Reserves and Treasury. Zeeshan is a Fellow of Society of Actuaries and a Member of Academy of Actuaries.
Aly Moosa – KPMG (Dallas)
Aly Moosa is an Actuary with KPMG’s Dallas Life and Health Insurance Actuarial Consulting Practice. He has over ten years of experience in the insurance industry. Aly provides audit and advisory services to the world’s largest multinational entities in the financial services and insurance sectors. He has significant knowledge in financial reporting, actuarial modeling, systems conversion, and project management. Prior to joining KPMG, he held positions in the Financial Reporting Group of two multinational insurance companies, AIG and Scor Global Life Re, where he worked on a variety of modeling platforms and valuation bases, including IFRS and Solvency II. Aly is an Associate of Society of Actuaries and a Member of the Academy of Actuaries.
Saira Makhani – CNA (Chicago)
Saira Makhani is an Actuary with CNA based in Chicago. She is currently working as a Long term care pricing actuary with focus on individual and group market. Prior to CNA, Saira was an Actuary with Allstate Life and Retirement and worked in several capacities on Asset Liability Management, Modeling and Valuation and Finance teams. Saira is an Associate of Society of Actuaries.
Zain Attawala – McGriff, Seibels & Williams (Atlanta)
Zain Attawala was an actuary at McGriff Seibels and Williams based in Atlanta, Georgia. He worked as a reserving actuary performing reserve analysis, product management, collateral requirements, and merger and acquisitions. Previously, zain has acted as a pricing actuary for Interstate National Corporation, AIG and AXIS. At INC, he focused on pricing extended coverages for automobiles. Whereas, at AIG and AXIS he performed pricing for casualty lines of business and developed rating models. With a passion for entrepreneurship, Zain has recently transitioned to real estate acquisitions and retail service businesses.
Mehb Khoja – Milliman (Chicago)
The presenter(s) have granted permission for use of this content for IPN members only. Please do not share this content outside of IPN without requesting permission from the presenter(s).
IPN Spotlight: Javed Hussain (Director of Global Technology Planning, Delivery and Governance, PepsiCo)
Javed Hussain has been a resident of Plano, Texas since 1995. He has over 25 years’ experience in the field of information technology and has a diverse background and extensive experience enterprise solutions and delivery. As a Global Technology Executive with PepsiCo and a Global Account Director with SAP America, he led several successful business transformations for high growth Fortune 100 companies.
What skills have helped you in your career?
Although I have extensive technical expertise, the key to my success has been my business-oriented approach, driving stakeholder engagement, building global high performing teams, and creating relationships and partnerships.
What do you wish you had known or done differently throughout your career?
Nothing. How could I? Looking back to reflect and learn is great. However, spending too much in the past thinking about reasons for what we could have done differently and what outcome it could have produced, is not a good use of time. My one advice is to simply focus on present. What are your priorities? What are you passionate about? What can you do now to enhance your career?
What do you do for continuing education and improvement?
I read a lot. I collaborate and invest time with industry leaders and experts. Speak at technology events and stay connected with various technology innovations via technology partners, providers and suppliers.
What is next for you in your career?
Every 3-4 years I have taken new into role to address business challenges while learning addressing business needs from holistic perspectives. I am looking to apply extensive technology, transformation and business experience to make much bigger contribution.
What advice would you offer to others?
Stay open to possibilities, but know what you want and why. If a right opportunity presents itself and it meets your criteria then don’t over think it and take the journey and explore.
Areas where you can help other Ismailis:
• Mentoring
• Leadership development
If you would like to nominate someone to be a part of the spotlight, click Here.
IPN Spotlight: Javed Jussa (Head of US Quantitative Strategies, Deutsche Bank)
Javed Jussa is head of US Quantitative Strategies at Deutsche Bank. He specializes in researching quantitative equity and global macro strategies for the bank’s institutional client base. Javed’s research focuses on discovering new stock-selection signals, exploring technical and mean reverting strategies, and testing risk management and portfolio construction techniques.
Javed has written research on stock selection models, global quant macro, news sentiment, accounting irregularities, pairs trading, technical factors, machine learning techniques, earnings forecasts models, SMID, and socially responsible investing. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Javed spent several years working as a quantitative analyst for other sell-side firms in both New York and Canada.
Javed holds a joint Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an MBA specializing in finance and statistics.
What skills have helped you in your career?
• Analytical
• Verbal
• Communication
• Presentation
What do you wish you had known or done differently throughout your career?
Better understand assess and more importantly align my interests with career opportunities.
What do you do for continuing education and improvement?
• Conferences
• Books
• and Meet-Up Groups
What advice would you offer to others?
To try several career paths.
Areas where you can help other Ismailis:
• Career planning
• Networking
• Advice during key career transitions and events
If you would like to nominate someone to be a part of the spotlight, click Here.
Description:
The Ismaili Professional Network Actuarial and Risk group is pleased to announce its first webinar on Saturday, June 24th 2017. This introductory webinar is designed to briefly discuss basics of Actuarial profession (to help students gain deeper insights with career choices) and how the profession is emerging with ever changing dynamics of the society.
Who Should Participate:
Students and professionals interested in exploring actuarial career and or/working as actuaries and are interested in learning about other actuarial tracks along with future in the field of actuarial science.
Presented by:
Ismaili Professional Network (IPN)- Actuarial and Risk Team
Date and Time:
Saturday, June 24th 2017 from 4:30pm-5:15pm EDT
Registration Link:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1032553952043767298