Chairman & Managing Director English Biscuit Manufacturers (Pvt) Limited

Mr Khawar Masood Butt. Mr Butt would have loved to dabble in philosophy but he chose to bake biscuits for a living instead. Born on August 31st 1935 in a humble middle class family of school teachers, he graduated with a degree in Law from the Punjab University in 1958.
The fifties saw him playing first-cricket for Pakistan. The sixties saw him making a modest start as Marketing Manager at EMI (Pakistan) Ltd. Thereafter he moved to Adamjee Sugar Mills as Manager Operations and ultimately landing in EBM where he was appointed Managing Director / CEO in 1978. Mr Khawar Butt occupies the status as one of Pakistan's leading professional icons in the Private Sector.
It is under the leadership of Mr Khawar Butt that the company has become one of the fastest growing food (biscuits / cookies) companies in Pakistan. Mr Butt believes that "even in a highly competitive environment, opportunities exist. And even if they don't, a strategic mind creates them". That's the philosophy that EBM has practiced and by which it has become the unrivaled industry leader. In recognition of his visionary and strategic leadership in turning around the business, he has been presented with the Marketing Excellence Award by the Marketing Association of Pakistan.
Mr Khawar Butt is a compulsive reader of serious non-fiction books having a special interest in History of Civilisations, Sociology, Politics and Philosophy of comparative religions.
He is a life member of Layton Rehmatullah Trust, the Society for International Development Pakistan Chapter, a Director on the Board of National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) and also a life member of the Institute of Arts & Crafts. His involvement with NGOs runs deep as he is also serving as Vice Chairman of Al-Falah Trust, an NGO working for the uplift of Rural Development in Sindh. Mr Khawar M. Butt patronises the WWF as a life-time member and holds the honour of being a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD), London which is a prestigious Institute of Corporate England, since 1983.