Amazing Pakistani Entrepreneurs
Khalid Awan
A flight engineer by profession, Khalid Awan showed his visionary skills early in his career when realized that flight engineer jobs might not continue with engineering advances in aircrafts. It meant that he had to find something new as a career path. Along with his elder brother, he ventured on the franchise of DHL in Pakistan. Experience of world's leading logistics and courier company provided Khalid Awan with skills and business knowledge for setting up a company of his own that he started in early 1980s. TCS Couriers proved to be a bigger challenge from onset because country's bureaucratic postal restrained any courier operator from carrying postal letters. Navigating this and many other political challenges, Khalid Awan continued developing a strong presence in country as first leading Courier and logistics brand. More than three decades later, company has grown into a conglomerate having coverage to related businesses.
Under leadership of Khalid Awan, TCS has host of remarkable management practices which enables it to remain highly competitive while maintaining a formidable presence all over Pakistan with thousands of employees. These practices as well as its history have been subject of a case study at Harvard Business School. This made TCS among few organizations from this part of the world to be featured at such coveted platform.
Profile of Mr Khalid Awan on official website of TCS also details his past stints and achievements in different business capacities in different parts of the world.
Under leadership of Khalid Awan, TCS has host of remarkable management practices which enables it to remain highly competitive while maintaining a formidable presence all over Pakistan with thousands of employees. These practices as well as its history have been subject of a case study at Harvard Business School. This made TCS among few organizations from this part of the world to be featured at such coveted platform.
Profile of Mr Khalid Awan on official website of TCS also details his past stints and achievements in different business capacities in different parts of the world.
