Rizwan Ghani

Expertise

• Consultant, Advisor & Trainer

• B2B Marketing

• Packaging

• Recruitment

• Change Management

Profile

Rizwan Ghani started his career at Packages Limited – Lahore as a Management Trainee in the marketing department after Graduation from Islamabad and a Post Graduate Degree in Business Studies from UK in 1982.

After serving for 21 years in all the three Marketing offices (Centre, South and North) including a short stint with Tetra Pak Kuban, Russia, he was promoted as the Head of Marketing, based in Lahore. His second assignment was as head of a SBU Folding Carton in 2003. He served the business unit for 5 years in a purely operational environment.

In 2009 he was sent to Sri Lanka as the Managing Director of a subsidiary of Packages Limited, a JV, BOI Company, based near Colombo. He served in this position for four and half years. Rizwan returned to the parent company in 2014 and was made responsible for Marketing and Sales (Flexible Packaging and Folding Cartons) and Supply Chain functions for the entire company. Shortly after that, in September 2014, he took over as Executive Director and General Manager of the company. He retired from Packages Limited in March 2016 after serving Packages Limited for 34 years.

After leaving Packages Limited, he joined a web based European recruiting company catering to Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe with specializing in printing, packaging and processing. He spent two and half years with them.

Later on, Rizwan worked for Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Limited, the oldest a public limited company in the business of grocery and confectionery as Deputy Managing Director and served for two years.

He has also taught “Organizational Behavior” to BBA classes at a local university, appeared as a guest speaker at various business & academic forums (including LUMS Rausing Executive Development Centre) and conducted training sessions for professionals on “B2B Marketing”, “Sales” and “Leading & Managing Change” and “Packaging Optimization for End Users”.