Haider Zameer Choudrey

Mr Haider Zameer Choudrey has been a Director of Bestway Cement Limited since December 2016 and is also a Member of the Board Audit Committee (BAC).

Haider is Finance Director of Bestway Group, which is the UK’s 7 th largest family business with an annual turnover of over £3.4 billion. He has responsibility for provided financial and strategic oversight to all Group subsidiaries in the UK and Pakistan. Bestway Group consists of the UK’s largest independent wholesaler, the UK’s 3 rd largest retail pharmacy, Pakistan’s largest cement manufacturer and Pakistan’s 2 nd largest private bank.

Haider has extensive experience in finance, strategy, digital, tax and transactional services. He has played an instrumental role in developing United Bank Limited’s Information Technology & Digital Offering and establishing international best practice internal governance procedures in both United Bank Limited and Bestway Cement. In the UK Haider has been the driving force behind the Group’s diversification into retail pharmacy business through the acquisition of Well Pharmacy and expansion of the Group’s Wholesale business.

Haider also holds directorships at Bestway Group Limited, United Bank Limited and Well Pharmacy. He is also a certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance.

Haider is actively involved in the charitable work of the Bestway Foundation in the UK and Pakistan and is part of the management team that is supervising the construction of two state of the art schools in Chakwal, Punjab.

Haider is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and previously trained with KPMG LLP.

Haider was schooled at Eton and holds a Master’s in Economics from Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.