Syed Muhammad Taha

Syed Taha, capitalizing on his over three decades of cross-industry experience, both local and international, marked the highest ever profits, raising the bar with historic operational and financial performance for two years in a row in fiscal years 2021 & 2022 in the approximately five decades of Pakistan’s largest energy icon - PSO.

Under his leadership, the company has gone from strength to strength, maintaining strong volumetric growth in all product lines and steadily increasing market shares across major portfolios. Taha has successfully transformed PSO from an oil marketing business to an agile, integrated & future-ready energy company.

He spearheaded the clean energy revolution in Pakistan, making PSO the first company to introduce Euro 5 fuels in the country while also building scale in low carbon energy alternatives such EV charging and solarization of locations. He streamlined management and marketing, redesigned the company’s internal architecture and unlocked the talent and potential of the organization’s human capital with special focus on diversity and inclusion.

Harnessing the power of disruptive and indigenous technologies, he set the wheels for the company’s long-term sustainability in motion through business process reengineering, automation & digitization, diversification and new ventures. He increased focus on infrastructural projects, strategic financial management and high margin products with safety and customer-centricity being underpinning drivers of all initiatives.

Previously, he worked as an Executive Director in Oasis Energy, heading the Program Management Office of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, Nigeria. Prior to that, as the Chief Distribution Officer at K-Electric Limited, he managed revenues exceeding USD 1.9 billion, catering to 2.4 million customers in Karachi and improving the productivity and effectiveness of 8,000+ employees.

Well known as a visionary strategist and respected for his transformational skills in the energy sector with over two decades of executive level experience, Taha has been a key member of the change management and leadership teams in various organizations where he successfully turned around struggling enterprises into highly profitable concerns. He holds an engineering degree with an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.