Current Designation & GTP Focus Areas

Mobin is the Co-Founder Chairman of the Global Trade Partnerships – the international network for impact investments and social enterprise collaborations. The GTP is focused at building international public private partnerships to alleviate poverty. It drives capital access, distribution, innovation, SMEs growth and industry expertise in multiple sectors including; Finance, Trading, Infrastructure, Energy, Cement, Steel, Mining, Engineering, Industrial Parks, Real Estate, Smart Cities, Agriculture, Textile, Logistics, Technology, Healthcare, Tourism, Media, Communications, Fashion Designing, Education, Skills Development and MSMEs & SMEs.

Experience & Travel

He brings 40+ years of professional experience and has delivered as technocrat, industrialist and philanthropist with a remarkable series of achievements. His entrepreneurial journey is a continuation of century old industrial family business. He extended the legacy of hierarchy and established multiple industrial manufacturing units of engineering and textile in Pakistan. His current vision is based on accumulated exposure of travelling as an entrepreneur across entire world continents, visiting 70 + states and operating with royal dynasties, parliamentarians, diplomats, central banks leadership, leading entrepreneurs, industrialists, military generals and academicians.

Family Industrial Background

He seeks inspiration from the consequence of subcontinent partition into India and Pakistan in 1947, which forced his grandparents to migrate from India to settle at Karachi, Pakistan. The entrepreneurial resilience enabled his family to establish the first automobile industry in Pakistan with the name of Nisaco Motor Parts, specializing in engine reconditioning through US and Italian modern technology and with the capacity to grind the largest marine ships crankshafts. Mobin joined the legacy of entrepreneurship in 1977 after graduating as an engineer to work with his teacher – his father.

Own Industrial Background

He started from basic shop floor operations and gradually moved into building technology-led businesses specializing in low-cost design, special-purpose machines, jigs, fixtures and manufacturing-transfer lines. He established the first indigenous SME manufacturing facility spread across 300,000 sq ft area to produce camshafts, engine valves, and gaskets and excelled towards producing 35 percent of tractor components for Fiat assembly lines. He is also the pioneer in introducing the first ever Rapier Shuttleless looms in Pakistan.

Published Reports, Invited Speaker & Advisories

He has published several reports on self-sustaining micro cities, industrial parks and low-cost housing as vehicles and growth enablers for trade, entrepreneurship and jobs creation in marginalized communities which are severely affected by poverty and regularly invited as speakers to share insights on social development. As a business leader, he understands that accomplishments are a result of getting people to work as a team. He has dedicated his life to helping SMEs and advising African and Asian developing countries governments on job creation and trade strategy to alleviate poverty.

Future Vision at Commonwealth Club

He now looks forward to initiating global sustainable projects aimed at inclusivity and empowering marginalized communities with skills and enabling them with the power of SMEs to create jobs and end poverty. He wants to realize these goals by leading and promoting the commonwealth entrepreneurial club connecting 5K+ highly successful entrepreneurs from across 54 commonwealth nations to open up new markets, facilitate trade, enhance regional connectivity and exclusively invest in setting up industrial parks, smart cities, low cost housing and vocational skills centers to develop requisite human capital all aimed at poverty alleviation on a mutually rewarding, business friendly and commercially viable projects.

Family, Golf & Book

An avid golfer who is blessed with a loving family, he is also documenting his vision and strategies in writing a new book, “ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH SKILL DEVELOPMENT”.

Mark Beer OBE is a British lawyer who is co-Founder of Seven Pillars Law, chairman of The Metis Institute and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Global Legal Action Network and was previously President of the International Association for Court Administration.

Beer is a member of the Commercial Dispute Resolution Taskforce, part of the UK Government’s ‘LawTech Delivery Panel’; senior advisor to VirtuZone; senior advisor to Emissary Holdings; advisor to the Board of Resolve Disputes Online; a member of The Innovation Working Group of the Task Force on Justice; a Professional Associate with Outer Temple Chambers; a lawyer with Keystone Law and a member of the International Council of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Previously he was Chief Executive of the Dubai International Financial Centre’s Dispute Resolution Authority; Registrar General and a Small Claims Tribunal judge of the DIFC Courts; and Registrar to the Dubai World Tribunal.

Beer was identified as one of the 100 Inspiring Leaders in the Middle East and has been described as having an ′incredibly sharp mind, a brilliant reputation and a proven talent for securing government support behind disruptive planning′ and was involved in a number of transformative projects in Dubai in the legal and justice sectors, having spoken about the future of law and justice and been instrumental in the establishment of the Courts of the Future Forum.

Beer is also a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for the Justice sector and a legal commentator on China’s One Belt One Road Initiative.

Hatter undertook the task of successfully planning and implementing Hotel ICON’s commercial and operational strategies. Hatter led his team creating and David Heymann is a medical epidemiologist and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM.

From 1989 to 2009 he held various leadership positions in infectious diseases at WHO, and in 2003 headed the WHO global response to SARS in his role as executive director of communicable diseases.

In 1976, after spending two years working in India on smallpox eradication, Heymann was a member of the CDC (Atlanta) team to investigate the first Ebola outbreak in DRC and stayed on in sub-Saharan Africa for 13 years in various field research positions on Ebola, monkeypox, Lassa Fever, malaria and other tropical diseases.

Heymann has published over 250 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, is editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, and is an elected member of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine. In 2009 he was named an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to global health.

With over 30 years’ experience in the world of hospitality as General Manager of five-star hotels in United Kingdom, the British Virgin Islands, Bahrain, Dubai, Indonesia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong, Richard Hatter joined Hotel ICON, as pre-opening General Manager in 2009.

Hatter undertook the task of successfully planning and implementing Hotel ICON’s commercial and operational strategies. Hatter led his team creating and developing the brand DNA to ensure clarity on the employee and customer brand message, overseeing the opening and management of the 262-room elevated luxury hotel reporting to Mr Victor Lo JP, Chairman of the Board.

In addition, Hatter worked closely with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and its School of Hotel Tourism Management on curriculum design, hotel and school integration and implementation of various internship programs.

Hatter was previously Corporate Director of Development at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in Hong Kong, responsible for renovations and re-branding hotels in the group.

Hatter is active within the hospitality industry and holds the position of chairman of the Hong Kong Chapter at the institute of Hospitality.

He is also a fellow of the institute of Hospitality (FIH) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University with an Executive Masters in Global Hospitality Leadership where he also lectures and consults, and presents on ICON’s innovation strategies at numerous leading trade events and conferences.

Hatter’s expertise in developing and opening Independent, Chain hotels and Clubs as well as teaching hotels has been acknowledged through representation on the board at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Passionate about mentoring younger people set on building a career in hospitality, Richard has also supports Elite Management Interns by mentoring at Hotel ICON since its inception.

He was recognised as the General Manager of the year at The BMW Hotelier Awards Greater China 2018, hailed as the ‘Oscars’ of the hotel industry,

Recent Projects:
WKCDA P32 Artist Residence
Chengdu Yinxing Teaching Hotel Project
Executive Development Programme – Ruiyee Hospitality
HKRI Discovery Bay Cubs