Zaki is a dynamic fashion supply chain and marketing specialist. He is a Canadian citizen living and working in Pakistan in the textile industry.  Over the course of the last 21 years, he has had the opportunity to work with some of the most progressive and large scale textile operations in Pakistan spanning multiple product categories and markets.  Zaki is proud to be a part of Rivet magazine’s top 50 most influential denim personalities for the year 2021.

Zaki is currently the Vice President of Strategy, Sustainability & Innovation at Crescent Bahuman Ltd, the first vertical denim jeans company of Pakistan and one of the greenest ecosystems.  It is a purpose built factory and residential campus spread over 600 acres of land that has an in-house recycling plant that consumes sourced post-consumer waste and internal post-industrial waste fibre.  This facility also has a Cradle 2 Cradle Gold certification. Zaki’s experience in the textile industry also includes Klass Textiles Mills, Gul Ahmed Textiles Mills, US Apparel & Textiles, Neela Denim (Sapphire Fibres Ltd), and Rajby Industries.