I am a 4th year undergraduate student studying Psychology at York University. In addition to being a full-time student, I am also a Residence Life Don, a Research Assistant, and the current Chair of United South Asians at York (USAY) a community service group that works to support and advocate for South Asian students on York’s campus. 

Why Power of Sharing? I have watched my mother build all of this from the ground up. Over the past decade she has been working, for no personal gain, building this amazing initiative and community brick by brick. All of this has been so integrated into my life since I was 10 years old that I could not imagine not continuing to be a part of this incredible journey. I want to help ensure that this initiative continues to develop, grow, and reach its full potential.

Dilnawaz has a 35 years career with Ontario Public Service in the Senior Management Capacity. His expertise are in Project and Portfolio Management.

Dilnawaz has a PMP designation from the Project Management Institute and a Master’s in Project Management from the Schulich School of Business, York University. 

The high-light of Dilnawaz’s career was the development of Project and Portfolio Management frameworks and methodologies for the Project Management Centre of Excellence. 

Currently, Dilnawaz is a member of visiting faculty at Namal Knowledge City. In addition, he runs a Real Estate Brokerage Investment firm in the GTA.

Country Manager, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Equinor

Fawad Quraishi holds a degree in Mathematics and Physics from the Trinity College, University of Toronto (Canada). He entered the Canadian diplomatic service in 1987 and served at Canadian embassies in Moscow (1989-1990, 1995-1997), Almaty (1992) and Tehran (1992-1995). He joined ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam in 1997 and worked on project and corporate finance transactions for clients in Azerbaijan, and oil and gas advisory assignments for Australian clients active in Iran and Pakistan. In 1999, Mr Quraishi joined McKinsey & Co as a management consultant in Toronto.

He was a team member on corporate finance and strategy engagements in power generation, telecommunications and insurance sectors in Canada, Brazil and the United States. He joined Equinor (then Statoil) in 2002 and has worked in business development and executive management roles in the global exploration and development/production businesses. He was appointed Vice President in charge of Equinor’s global exploration business development group 2011-2015. He has

negotiated upstream and gas downstream partnerships in Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia, including the Strategic Co-operation Agreement between Equinor and Rosneft (2012). 

On 1 January 2016, Mr Quraishi, was appointed Vice President (Exploration) in charge of Equinor’s joint venture projects  with Rosneft in Russia. As of 1 July 2017, Mr Quraishi began his current assignment and acts as Equinor’s Country Manager in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, based in Baku. In this capacity, he has overseen the creation of two joint ventures with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and

the drilling of Equinor’s first operated exploration well in the Caspian Sea, which is an oil discovery.

 

Mr Quraishi speaks English, French, Urdu, Russian and Persian. He has a working knowledge of Norwegian, Dutch and Italian. Mr Quraishi is married with three children.

Name: Kulsoom Sayed- Jivani

Contact info: klsm.sayed@gmail.com 

Professional/personal Info: 

Landed in Canada as an International Student over a decade ago, completed my education at Masters level in Disability Studies. I passionately enjoy working with differently abled population. Currently, I work with children with Autism. I have been involved in various autism awareness campaigns personally and professionally and I intent to continue being an strong advocate for the (abovementioned) population. 

Why Power of Sharing: The ‘Power of Sharing’ organization has been involved in many projects that resonates with my passion of giving back to the community. Great satisfaction comes from giving and sharing with others. It multiples the happiness, blessings, and love. Hence, it gives me great pleasure and honor to be a part of this noble organization. 

Some one who loves to help other in the path of Allah, seeking light of Guidance and truth from Allah.Firmly believe that Help is from Allah and HE is always there for every one . We are nothing and No where . It’s only HIS bounty and mercy that HE bless the opportunity to be a drop in the ocean . Always pray and wish that any good deed will be saved for the day of judgement. Allah has blessed with His gracefull people to be in the ship to reach others in the hard time . Love to reach the people who don’t ask , who don’t ask but in need . Helping others is not only through money . A hand on someone’s shoulder , A time to sit down in someone’s grief , kind words , A kind gesture , A smile and to hold someone’s hand , All are great help .