Our Team - Bykea

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

Fawad Uz Zafar Khan

VP Network Expansion - South

Fawad is an intellectual and motivated leader with over 17 years of experience in managing sales and cross functional projects from conception to reality. He previously worked with Warid Telecom-Abu Dhabi Group as the National Head of Corporate Business and Enterprise Solutions. Bringing in a diverse set of expertise in Information Technology and Sales coupled with data driven decision making and visionary mindset, Fawad joined Bykea as Vice President Network Expansion of the South region to maximize Bykea's reach for it to become the first choice of customers.

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 6

Faizan Laghari

Managing Director, Delivery

Faizan Laghari is a tech-entrepreneur with 22+ years of experience in various startups, ranging from a tech-services company in 2002, the 1st co-working space in 2008, the 1st on-demand delivery startup in 2014 and various consultancy, mentoring and coaching efforts with a number of accelerators and incubators in the country. Having spent the last 7+ years in the logistics field, starting from Forrun, the 1st on-demand and last-mile delivery company, followed by serving as the Chief Disruption Officer and the Head of Ecommerce Operations for TCS.

The last last-mile delivery startup Faizan created, rnnr, merged into Bykea, where he now serves as the Managing Director for Delivery.

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.

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

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

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