The legendary cricket all rounder is joining Careem as its Chief Executive Officer, we have checked with sources.
Exactly like you think, we too believe this is one of the rarest moves we have seen from a cricketer in a long time.
While Careem is quiet on the matter and neither confirmed nor denied the news, our sources confirmed the development and said that agreement or appointment has been signed and notified.
While we trust and respect Wasim Akram for his cricketing abilities, it’s hard to predict his career as head of a tech company.
We also think that this could be an honorary position and that Wasim Akram might not run day to day operations at the company.
Junaid, the head of Careem, is still in tact and is very much with Careem, we have confirmed.
We will share more upward we will have more information from official sources with on the record quotes.
Update
Careem Pakistan, moments ago, confirmed the news.
Junaid Iqbal, MD for Careem Pakistan, announced the appointment of Wasim Akram as Honorary CEO of Careem Pakistan.
Junaid did a small FB live video with Wasim Akram to make the announcement.
As we hinted you above, Wasim Akram won’t be running the company or its operations but will instead will act as honorary CEO.
Position will be more like the brand ambassador of a company but we will have to say that Careem brought some innovation in how it took Wasim Akram on-board to get added mileage and visibility.
Aisa mazaq sirf pakistan may ho sakta hay
trump is president of USA
Nahi yeh uss say barha mazaq hay. Anybody can be politician but not manage the tech driven business manager.
i stopped reading at anybody can be politician :D
Most qualified person for the job. Very wise decision by Magnus indeed. #WTAF
cricketers ko car booking service ka CEO laga do.. journalists (najam sethi) ko cricket ka head bna do.. welcome to pakistan
;-)
Just Like Donald Trump News :) ?
Chalo ab Lala ko Uber Ka CEO Bana dau.
hahaha xD
Aur IK ko Bykea ka! :p
Lala koun?
Wasim Akram is Gemini and can do this job quite well which requires dealing with short distance travels .
Gemini? You are judging his skills on the basis of a horoscope? Jeez.
He is Sarcasming
I do hope he is and if not … well then xD
When your sarcasm level is so high, people actually believes you xD
Good one, mate! LOL
Cricketers joining tech, good news
He may have invested in Careem and in return get this honorary position
who are they kidding!!! we use bykea andvheelz instead
May be the less stupid thing to do is to make him brand ambassador?
Seems to be a brand ambassador rather than CEO. Anyway if Najam Sethi can be PCB chairman than no harm if Waseem Akram becomes CEO of a tech company ;)
If a Metric Pass boy can be CEO of Pakistan. Than what is the issue of having a cricketer as CEO of tech company :P
Nailed it!
Our kaddu is not even metric. Wahan b boti lagai ho gee is duffer nay. Biggest worry is all low IQ and dis honest class is supporter of kaddu.
Ghulam ibn-e-ghulaam
CEO job is to create and project business. CTO is for the technical stuff.