Behind Bykea

Bykea is a hyper-local marketplace running on a network of thousands of driver-partners. We are a group of hard workers growing to become experts of the transport, logistics, and financial industry. We thrive to build a company which will leave behind an impact and a legacy in Pakistan.

People behind Bykea

Core Team

Team 1
Muneeb Maayr
Founder
Muneeb Maayr is the Founder of Bykea, the largest network of motorbikes serving on-demand transport, logistics and payment services in Pakistan. Muneeb graduated from the University of Virginia to work in investment banking at Bear Stearns in New York City right after college. He then led a 600 person back office for SNL Financial in Islamabad, a business acquired by Standard & Poors. Prior to Bykea, Muneeb was Co-Founder and CEO at Daraz.pk, Pakistan's leading ecommerce platform, acquired by Alibaba Group.
Team 6
Jonas Eichhorst
Executive Chairman
Jonas, the Board Member at Bykea, has over 10 years of diversified experience in helping build businesses, products, and teams across various industries, geographies, and organizational sizes. As CEO of Silicon Straits, he helped build it into a multi-million dollar business before exiting in early 2017. He is also currently working as a Board Member with a digital bank in Vietnam and as a Technology Advisor for 7-Eleven Vietnam.
Team 2
Rafiq Malik
Chief Operating Officer
Rafiq is a founding member and COO at Bykea - Pakistan’s largest network of motorbikes serving transport, logistics, and payment services. With extensive experience of 8 years in the Trucking and Logistics Industry within the Canadian market, he returned to Pakistan in 2012 to lead the Operations of TNT Express - the 4th largest Courier Aggregator in the world at the time; acquired by FedEx in 2016. He is an alumnus of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is passionate about finding solutions for the constantly evolving MaaS sector. Rafiq has been the transforming and enabling force at Bykea.
Team 5
Abdul Mannan
Chief Information Officer
A critical part of Bykea’s founding team, Mannan is now leading the Payments, Growth, and Partnerships business at Bykea. He was, previously, working on developing Tech and Growth teams. Before joining Bykea, he spent 4 years at Daraz - a giant E-commerce platform acquired by Alibaba. He has also worked on technology solutions for multiple tech startups in Europe and the US.
Team 3
Baset Chaudhry
Chief Financial Officer
Baset brings over a decade of international experience in financial planning and management to Pakistan. Before Bykea, Baset was the Vice President at Baltoro. He has also been part of esteemed organizations like Morgan Stanley, GF Capital and Barclays in New York. Baset graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, CT in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. As CFO, Baset oversees the accounting, business support, financial planning and analysis, treasury, investor relations, internal audit and tax functions at Bykea.
Team 4
Abbas Shahid
Director Product
Abbas joined Bykea in 2019 and has worn many hats: he joined as VP Growth Operations to lead the central region, transitioned to Head of People Strategy to revamp organizational structure and focus on growth and productivity, moved into the Managing Director role for the bike-taxi business, and is now heading Product to bridge the gap between business and engineering.
Before Bykea, he launched and led the Moto category at Uber Technologies Inc. across Pakistan and East Africa. He was also associated with OMD New York where he managed Marketing Analytics for multiple accounts including Pepsi, Starbucks, and Lipton. He was awarded a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing/Analytics, from New York University and is also a LUMS alumnus.
Team 6
Ali Taufiq
Managing Director, Car & Rickshaw
Ali is looking after Car and Rickshaw ride-hailing operations. He brings with him 12 years of diversified experience ranging from Investment Banking, Sales, and Operations. He has more than 6 years of experience related to startups and was first introduced to startups while working with Careem. He is a LUMS-Alumni and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Ali loves to build businesses, teams, and talent from scratch and help them reach their optimum potential.
Team 6
Sameer Salehin
Head of Customers Experience
Sameer is a thorough and resourceful Customer Relationship Management professional with over 15 years of leadership experience in the local and international industry. He specializes in crafting CRM and Customer Engagement skillfully to create a culture that delivers extraordinary customer experiences. Sameer, previously, worked as the Head of Customer Services at Daraz - Pakistan's leading E-commerce platform. His list of accolades at Bykea includes creating Bykea's Franchise Program, Pakistan’s first Crowdsourced Call Center, Work-From-Home Call Center Platform, and Missed-call Services.
Team 6
Sara Sattar
Head of People Strategy
Sara has over a decade of experience in Consultancy and HR & Leadership Management across various industries. With a passion for understanding and facilitating companies to shape and build their workforce, her expertise lies in creating tailored solutions that drive business impact, through stakeholder management. Whether the focus is on assessments, leadership development, employee engagement, or organizational effectiveness, her strengths lie in ensuring the solutions are geared towards solving problems and improving performance.
With a Master's in Organizational Behaviour from the Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; she has a zest for building high-performing teams that drive purpose-driven organizations. Her passion for understanding what makes people tick leads her to actively develop an employee-centric culture.
Team 1
Team 6
Team 2
Team 5
Team 3
Team 4
Team 6
Team 6
Team 6
previous arrow
next arrow

The vision of Bykea is to create opportunities for average Pakistani’s to offer their services and to connect with their communities to create communication, business opportunities, and service opportunities. Bykea is the platform that connects everyone together.

Muneeb Maayr

We are always looking to grow our team

Discover the right role for you