Zouhair is a business executive with global experience in telecom & technology. He is the Co-Founder & Partner at Teamup; the managing arm of the National Incubation Center.

Zouhair was a key part of the launch team at Mobilink in 1993-96. As CEO of Mobilink 2003-2008, he led the turnaround and exponential growth from 1m to 31m customers building it in to a US$ 10 billion dollar company, growing revenues from US$ 80 million to US$ 1.4 billion, investing US$ 3B in infrastructure over 5 years making it one of the 5 fastest growing companies in the Asia Pacific Region and the largest private sector company in the country, which status it maintains today with 75 million customers.

In 2009-10 he led the licensing and initial set up of Mobilink Microfinance Bank in Pakistan and mobile banking operations in Bangladesh, Greece and Tunisia. In 2011-14 he led the successful restructuring and turn around of Warid and Wateen Telecom leading to the successful merger of Warid with Mobilink. He is a former Member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on IT & Telecom, Non Exec Director at Engro Foods, and on the Advisory Board of FieldForceLLC, a software analytics company.

He is on the Board of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and an alumnus of INSEAD, France.