Brigadier (R) Viqar Rashid Khan is a distinguished telecommunications, ICT and national-security leader with over four decades of senior executive experience. He served as Chairman / Managing Director of the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) from April 2013 to April 2021, turning a loss-making public-sector telecom into a disciplined, profitable and technically modern organization — a recognised record in Pakistan's public sector.

He was concurrently appointed Chairman of the Electronic Certification Accreditation Council (ECAC) in 2015, where he operationalised Pakistan's national regulatory body for electronic transactions, PKI, cryptography services and digital document repositories under ETO-2002.

His 32-year career in the Pakistan Army spans command and staff appointments across telecommunications, electronic warfare, intelligence, protocol & liaison, management and human resources — including national-level projects such as PAFIS, PROMIS and NITRS for the Ministry of Interior.

Ayaz is a British biomedical engineer with a decade of hands-on experience across the medical and biotechnology industry — spanning diagnostics, oncology radiotherapy, gene therapy, biomarker analysis and spatial biology. At VAKS Strategic he serves as Technical Supervisor and Consultant, guiding AI healthcare architecture, product strategy and clinical engineering across BodyScan AI.

His career spans Abbott Diagnostics, Quanterix, Elekta, Unchained Labs and Lunaphore, where he leads field service engineering across the UK and Europe — bridging deep technical service, R&D collaboration and commercial strategy.

Dr. Malaika Khan is a qualified MBBS physician with frontline experience across emergency medicine, dermatology, general medicine, surgery and orthopaedics. She brings a rare blend of bedside clinical judgement, medical education and patient-facing healthcare administration — exactly the perspective an AI medical platform needs.

At VAKS Strategic, Malaika leads clinical supervision for BodyScan AI — verifying medical logic, reviewing AI-generated explanations for safety and accuracy, and ensuring every patient-facing output upholds real clinical standards.

Sidra Naqshband serves as the Managing Partner and CFO of Paperazzi Magazine since 2021. She brings over 15 years of international banking and finance experience, having worked with global institutions including HSBC and UBS in the United Kingdom, and Bank of New Zealand and ANZ in Australia.

Her expertise spans mergers and acquisitions, leverage finance and debt restructuring, with a strong track record of drafting structured solutions for corporate and commercial clients. She was awarded the prestigious 'Most Valued Banker' recognition during her tenure as a Partner at Bank of New Zealand.

Ahmed is a PhD-qualified Embedded Systems and Mechatronics Engineer with nearly a decade of experience across firmware, robotics, control systems and machine learning. His work spans medical devices, avionics, AR wearables, radio systems and manufacturing defect detection, with deep expertise in sensor fusion for accuracy-critical applications.

At Meta — Reality Labs (NTI team), he leads firmware for a dual-processor AR architecture pairing Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 (AOSP) with Snapdragon S7 (FreeRTOS), improving AR-glasses battery endurance by 55% and enabling high-throughput TWS audio over Sparks UWB. At Roche Diagnostics, he built a particle-counting image processing pipeline that lifted accuracy by 50% and shipped a field-failure mitigation feature that cut false positives by 20%, saving thousands in recalls.

Zakriya leads commercial growth and strategic partnerships for VAKS Strategic, opening BodyScan AI to hospitals, diagnostic labs, insurers and telehealth partners across the GCC, EU and South Asia. He combines a sharp commercial instinct with hands-on experience scaling regulated technology platforms.

Previously COO at Digital Ledgers S.L., a Madrid-based MiCA-compliant crypto exchange, where he ran day-to-day operations for a platform delivering 99.999% uptime and 100% customer asset protection — navigating MiCA, GDPR and DORA frameworks, Fireblocks custody, and institutional OTC partnerships with European banks.