Elevate held a session featuring mentors from S&P Global, bringing together professionals from across the company’s data, product and software development functions to share insights and engage in conversations aimed at shaping the next generation of professionals. The session drew on a mix of roles from within S&P Global, giving participants exposure to different career paths and functional areas within a large global data and analytics company rather than a single narrow perspective on the industry.

Among the mentors featured was Nadeem Anjum, Director of Data Stewardship, who brought a leadership perspective on how large organisations manage and govern data at scale. Maryam Qamar, Associate in Client Support, offered insight into client facing roles within a data driven company, while Irfan Hussain, Lead Software Development, represented the technical engineering side of the organisation’s work.

The session also featured Wajid Shah, Associate Director of Data AI Ops, whose role sits at the intersection of data operations and artificial intelligence, an area of growing relevance as companies increasingly integrate AI tools into their core data infrastructure. Habiba Zaidi, Associate Product Manager, rounded out the panel with a product management perspective, giving attendees exposure to how new features and offerings are shaped and brought to market within a large scale data organisation.

The combination of speakers, spanning data stewardship, client support, software engineering, AI operations and product management, gave Elevate’s audience a broad view of the different functional paths available within a major global company like S&P Global, reflecting the kind of cross functional exposure that can help early career professionals identify which area of a large organisation might align best with their own interests and skills.

Sessions of this kind, where established global companies send mentors to engage directly with local audiences, continue to serve as a channel for professional development and networking within Pakistan’s broader talent and career development ecosystem, giving participants access to perspectives shaped by international corporate experience alongside more locally focused startup and entrepreneurship programming.

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