Jamil is enjoying his assignment thoroughly! "I strongly believe that the Business Plan for 2005-06 has been the most ambitious ever written in the history of TCS, and one that can only be committed to by someone who has a very strong belief in himself and the team that he is working with. I am very happy and feel a lot of pride being a member of such a committed team." Jamil Ahmed started his career from TCS in 1988 as Analyst Programmer, and moved on to becoming Area Manager Karachi, Manager Systems Operations, Senior Manager Operations, and then Regional Manager South followed by North.
Jamil joined the Service Group''s sister company Borjan in 1997 as Business Manager, and worked there for five years. In 2002 Mr. Sajjad A. Gul invited Jamil to head his advertising agency Evernew Concepts as Executive Director based in Karachi. Here he worked on some of the top brands of Pakistan, heading Strategic Planning as well which was his main interest in the assignment
Family circumstances necessitated a move to Lahore where Jamil joined Mayfair (Asian Food Industries Limited) as General Manager Marketing. It covered the whole cycle of idea conceiving to shooting the television commercial with the best people in the business in Mumbai, and making sure that the brand was visibly in the 72,000 outlets across Pakistan.
In October 2005 Mr. Saqib Hamdani, Chief Operating Officer TCS, offered Jamil the position of Head of Business Process Review and Automation, "... an assignment that attracted me a lot because of the challenge in it!"
Jamil is blessed with three sons & two Daughters. The book he is reading these days is ''Good to Great'' by Jim Collins. In addition, he religiously reads the works of Tom Peters, and says that the Harvard Business Review is a magazine he tries not to miss. His normal reading comprises Dawn, Khaleej Times, Times and Newsweek. On the subject of food Jamil says that his wife is a very good cook, and he loves eating everything she cooks. His favorite movie stars are Amitabh Bachchan and Al Pacino, and he loves cricket!
Ladies and gentlemen, Jamil Ahmed at your service!