Nabeel Qadeer, a prominent catalyst of Entrepreneurship in Pakistan, most recently assumed his role as Project Chair at United Nations Conference of Trade And Development (UNCTAD) – Commonwealth Entrepreneurship Project. He is also the driving force behind Idea Croron Ka, Pakistan’s First Business Reality Show in Pakistan. His vision was always to promote entrepreneurship and played a key role in establishing the startup ecosystem in Pakistan. However, he soon realized that without investment the startups die down. Thus, with the notion to help entrepreneurs scale their startups into large-scale companies, he laid the foundation to this TV show in 2017, which acts as a platform between investors and aspiring entrepreneurs. With over twelve years of managerial experience, Nabeel Akmal Qadeer also assumed the role of Director of Entrepreneurship at Punjab Information Technology Board. His work experience encompasses multiple domains including management information systems, entrepreneurship, change management, strategy & planning, business analysis and project management. Not just this, he is also the co-founder of a business & IT consultancy firm by the name of Technopsis. With offices in two major cities of Pakistan and a client base spanning across the Middle East, Asia and United Kingdom; he has ample experience in effective strategy development, positioning a brand in new markets and managing end-to-end operations of an organization effectively.

Nabeel as the former Director of Entrepreneurship steered all initiatives that fell in the space of technology entrepreneurship backed by the Government. Projects like Plan9 – Pakistan’s Largest Technology Incubator, PlanX – Technology Accelerator, TechHub Connect – a co-working space for freelancers, Herself – an initiative to empower women and Whizkids – an initiative to instill entrepreneurial spirit in school going students are the initiatives he took charge of under this umbrella.

Nabeel has recently assumed the role of Chief Innovation Officer at Superior Group. As the CIO of the group, he has the responsibility of instilling the agenda of innovation in the education system of Superior Network (which includes 1 university, 150+ colleges & 350+ schools). Apart from academia, his role spans across the entire media group that includes 2 TV channels; Neo television Network & Lahore Rang, Nai Baat Newspaper and Radio FM 106.6 – The Voice of Entrepreneurs.

Last but not the least; Nabeel is also the founder of a new startup incubator called Innovation District 92 (ID92). Innovation District 92 operates on a model that is new to Pakistan's entrepreneurial ecosystem & startups get first hand access to resources of the Media Group to market their accomplishments.

Nabeel has been involved as a Project Manager with numerous SMEs across Pakistan helping them streamline and automate their business processes. He is currently the best-known teacher of entrepreneurship in Lahore, teaching at multiple institutes including FAST, ITU and Superior University.

He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He topped the batch at one of the best business schools in UK; Strathclyde Business School.

Among his major achievements is the Young Leaders Award 2016 presented to him by the Government for his exemplary services in Entrepreneurship. He is a true patriot and all his efforts are backed by his motivation to make Pakistan an economic force. He hopes to achieve this by bringing a positive impact in the entrepreneurial landscape of Pakistan.