Chairman
Mr. Pervez Nasim is a Bachelor of Commerce and a Certified Management Accountant. He is a founding member and Chair of the Board of the Islamic Co-operative Housing Corporation Ltd. and he has been volunteering his time since its inception in 1980 in Toronto, and Ansar Co-operative Housing Corporation, first Interest-Free Home Ownership and Investment projects in North America.
Mr. Pervez Nasim is also Chairman & CEO of a number of Ansar Financial Group of Companies that organized the 3rd International Islamic Banking, Finance & Insurance (Takaful) Conference held in Ottawa, Canada in May 2007. Ansar Financial Group Companies are managing investments on Interest-free basis in various Projects and Joint Ventures in excess of $85 Million in Canada.
Mr. Pervez Nasim was employed by the Ministry of Finance in Canada from where he retired in 2004 after twenty-seven years of service so that he can devote more time to the various Islamic Financing & Investment Projects. During the past twenty years he has made a number of presentations on ISLAMIC FINANCE in various INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE conferences held in Chicago, Houston, Los Angles, Toronto, Khartoum, Kuala Lumpur, Trinidad, Chittagong, Jakarta, Riyadh, Monterrey Mexico, Brunei Darussalam and at Harvard University, London School of Economics in England and at Crans Montana Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.