Calluna Resources:
An expert Henderson/Hasan/Hakim family association of:
►Leaders in business, fashion, technology, and academia
►Accomplished linguists, writers, poets, and philosophers
Open for review, commentary, and interaction.
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Nada Hasan: Seeking top position consultancy in Business & Textiles
Maliha Henderson
Naveed Henderson: Consultant on Management, Academia, & Hakim
Khalifa Hakim
Philip Henderson: Consultant on Optical Technology/Research
Existing to Promote Business, Fashion, Technology, and Academia
We:
Our Expertise
►Academic and business entrepreneurship, with special emphasis on female pioneering in:
►Directorship
►Top managerial expertise
►Regional heading of multinationals
►Institutional chairing
►Departmental founding
►Textiles
►Handmade soaps and scented candles
►Postdoctoral R&D of optical components, systems, and instrumentation
►Technical project management, technology transfer, reliability modelling, and production cost-control
►Design and delivery of university courses, with special studies on:
►Business management
►Systems applications
►Development practices
►The multidisciplinary approach to intangible resources
►Baccalaureate physics
►MPhil laser physics
►Academic and corporate authorship
Associated Literary Works
#6, January 2025 first edition of: Physics' Assimilation and Purpose: Fundamentals and uses of measurement, theory, and observation.
►Hardback ISBN 9798839647756
►Paperback ISBN 9798839640566
►Viewing/purchasing at Amazon sites such as US, UK, or Oz
►Independently published
#5, August 2022: Express Tribune Article on Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim
►Authors: Naveed Henderson and Syed Ali Hamid
#4, 2020: First Check What's in the Box: A Technologist's Making of Pakistan
►An autobiography of Engr Masood Hasan CHEM-1
►Publisher: Naveed Hasan Henderson, Lahore
►Hardback ISBN 9789697120413, 279pp, £18
►Ordering via naveedhenderson@yahoo.com
#3, Website honouring Naveed Henderson's grandfather, and 'citizen of the world': Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim
►Former professor of philosophy at Osmania University Hyderabad Deccan, Telangana
►Philosopher, poet, critic, researcher, polyglot, translator, philologist
►Noted author of several books on inter alia:
►The philosophical and poetic ideas, and intellectual contributions of Rumi and Iqbal
►The core beliefs and framework of Islam emphasising its applicability to modern life
#2, 1997: Management Practices and Business Development in Pakistan 1947-1988
►ISBN 1859725562
►Ashgate: Avebury
#1, 1995 London School of Economics' PhD thesis: Management Practices and Business Development in Pakistan 1950-1988
Connections and Affiliates
'Empowering vision ... since 1977'
'An Integrated Energy & Management Company delivering technology-based niche services'
►Formed as a team of industry professionals in the oil and gas, hydrocarbon, energy and power, iron and steel, cement, mining and metallurgy, transport, textiles, health, and education sectors.
►The Pakistan-based fertilizer company formed upon Exxon's 1991 global divestment of its fertilizer business equity.
'Our brands inspire authentic self-expression through our products and experiences – moving people, communities, and fashion forward.'
'Photonics engineering and manufacturing solutions for industry, telecoms, aerospace, defence, space, and life sciences'
►Located in Lahore
►The oldest university in South Asia
►The only Pakistan university to produce Nobel Laureates – doctors Abdus Salaam, and Har Gobind Khorana
►Luxury fashion brand owned by the French conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, later Kering
'Professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland'
►One of the former Redcats' fashion catalogues owned by the French conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, later Kering, and subsequently all divested as independent or separately owned concerns
Smart Fibres
►UK's premier company in optical sensing, fully acquired in 2018 by Halliburton
Active Members
Open to top position consultancy, and with substantive prior business and entrepreneurial experience, Nada has attained top regional management appointments at two multinationals for the global textile industry in Pakistan:
1) As General Manager at the Pakistan Liaison Office (Hong Kong Inc) of the Pakistan and Mid Asia operations of Redcats Asia – now divested from the Kering Group.
2) As Country Manager (Pakistan) for Gap Inc.
1) As Redcats' General Manager, Nada:
►Had the responsibility to set up Redcats' Pakistan – a greenfield project to source a high volume of textile exports to France, Sweden, and the USA.
►In context, such sourcing supported various catalogs – such as La Redoute, Vert Baudet, Cyrillus, Somewhere, Daxon, Edmee, Celia, Ellos, King size, Roamans, and Woman Within – then owned (along with a controlling stake in the Gucci group) by the French conglomerate Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, later the Kering Group.
►Hired up to 19 people - including merchandisers, quality controllers, quality assurance personnel, technicians, and support staff - to establish production, and quality management operations in Lahore.
►Built up, in the first year, exports of 12 million USD.
►Also had the responsibility of managing the Redcats' Turkey office – one of five other sourcing hubs (including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and India) – where: Administrative expenses of sourcing were trimmed to make the company lean and able to turn around fast fashion for the French and Swedish catalogs. And sourcing was also opened offshore.
2) As Gap's Country Manager, Nada:
►Had the responsibility to spearhead quality assurance operations and, through the hiring of new QA staff and leading of Final Audit Inspections, successfully provided supportive QA services to factories in Lahore and Karachi that were subcontracted to make denim bottoms and knitwear tops.
►Also had the responsibility to build the sourcing base, which she implemented by various means that included:
►Hiring new merchandising staff.
►Adding new sourcing categories like woven bottoms and socks etc.
►Inviting Gap to source other brands from Pakistan so as to avail vertical manufacturing set ups, reduce lead times, and improve prices.
►Consequently enjoyed the success of increasing gross exports from between 30 and 32 million up to 50 million USD per annum – the highest ever reached in Gap's previous 15 years of Pakistan operations.
Nada's prior business experience involves:
►Mainstream garment exports from vertical knitwear factories
►Development and merchandising of new sources for multi-million dollar high volume knitwear exports for brands such as Koh, Russell Athletics, NIKE, Ecko Unlimited, Rocca Wear, and Levi products (Dockers).
Nada's prior entrepreneurial experience involves:
►Business ownership and operations designing, manufacturing, and marketing children's garments in Pakistan (Munchkins).
►Marketing of own-brand scented candles, handmade soaps, and bath products (THEBARCODE).
►Offering of self-employed solutions to the development sector's textiles and ready-made garments.
►USAID Firms Project based market development with Chemonics for the shawl industry in Swat.
►Advisory consultancy on market linkages in the South Punjab for developing the skills of women stitchers.
►Consulting Hima ^Verte on marketing handmade paper products made from plant fibres and cotton waste.
►Self-employed operations with a US-based partner offering third party garment inspection, apparel-sourcing services, quality management, and consultancy on better practices and stake-holder engagement.
Dr Naveed Hasan Henderson
Management, Academia, & Hakim
Open to consultancy, Naveed is:
►A professor of management and development
►An academic entrepreneur, and expert in research and dissemination
►Founding Director of the Management Studies Department of Government College University
►First female manager at Exxon Chemicals (Pak) Ltd (now Engro Fertilizers)
►And, on the above Literary Works, author of #1,2,5, and publisher of #4
Whose current professional works involve:
►Management consultancy, since 1984, for EMMAY Associates – a company, formed in 1977, of
multi-faceted industry professionals who have carved a niche in management, energy services, and training in Pakistan.
►Chairing and Directorship at Government College University.
►Acting as permanent faculty at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
►Conceiving a book on the life and times of Barrister Said Hasan and Mrs Nadirah Hasan's travels and settlement from British India, Pakistan to East Africa, Fiji Islands and the UK (1915-1992).
►Contributing to a book on the life and achievements of the Kashmiri poet philosopher Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim.
And whose academic career and milestones comprise:
►Receiving a BA in Economics and Political Science from Kinnaird College in 1978, topping in Psychology.
►Receiving an MBA from the University of the Punjab in 1981.
►Receiving a PgD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge in 1986.
►Joining Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1986.
►Gaining a PhD from London School of Economics in 1995 on business development, notably exploring the topic of intangible asset management as an explanatory factor for global competitiveness.
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►Publishing the PhD's text as the book Management Practices and Business Development in Pakistan 1950-1988 (above Literary Work #1).
►Republishing the book by Ashgate, Avebury but over the extended period 1947-1988, and including a section on industrialisation in Korea.(above Literary Work #2).
►Publishing 11 case studies on Pakistan's industries.
►Being trained by Harvard Business School professors in the case study method of curriculum delivery.
►Developing and delivering courses in management, communications, and development at the MBA and BSc levels.
►Teaching of business policy, business history, sociology and politics of development, thesis writing, and international management, in Pakistan, Malaysia, and the UK.
►Publishing an Autobiography of Engr Masood Hasan CHEM-1 (above Literary Work #4).
►Working on a Pak-USAID joint venture project, with the US component being EBASCO-Apes-Itesco electricity companies, to provide rural electrification targeted at institutional improvement in WAPDA, Pakistan's largest parastatal generating and distributing electricity.
►Gaining of Exxon-based industry experience of manufacturing and marketing of urea and nitrophos fertilisers in the Pakistani agrarian economy – operations that, following divestment, are now conducted by Engro Fertilizers.
Whose specialist career was:
►Seeded by Professor Malcolm Dunn at the University of St Andrews
►Inspired by Professor Harold Hopkins at the University of Reading
►Nurtured by Professor Gordon Jones at the University of Liverpool via my PhD and postdoctorates on some of the first fibre-optic instrumentation applied to explosive chemical processes, body-scanned patients, and electrical switchgear
►Guided by Associate Professor Tony Stokes, Dr Mark Sceats, and Dr Ian Bassett at the University of Sydney via my contribution to the advent of Australian Photonics under DIST-funded (GIRD) R&D programs
►Launched by Professor David Jackson at the University of Kent via my completion of SHODOS - the UK's first collaborative research project in fibre-grating based Structural Health Monitoring
Who has this comprehensive set of qualifications:
►Forman Christian College's instatement as Professor of Physics, and Head of Optics Lab
►The Institute of Physics' Award of Chartered Physicist
►The University of Liverpool's award of PhD and post-doctorates in polychromatic fibre-optic sensing
►The University of Reading's award of MSc in applied and modern optics
►The University of St Andrews' award of BSc in physics and theoretical physics
And who has amassed this substantive portfolio:
►45 academic papers in lasers, fibre-optics, Bragg gratings, sensors, and interrogators
►Teaching of Baccalaureate physics, and MPhil laser physics
►Doctorate supervision and examination
►Reviewing of publications in Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Sensors and Actuators
►Creating the entry-level, but scholastic, text Physics' Assimilation and Purpose: Fundamentals and Uses of Measurement, Theory, and Observation.
►2 patents
►Training in ASET-certified business analysis
►Realignment and ISO-9001-certification of Smart Fibres, now part of Halliburton
►Engineering of fibre-optic metrology at Smart Fibres
►Engineering of fibre-optic devices initially at Sifam Fibre Optics and thence – following a sequence of operational acquisitions – also at at JDS Uniphase and, lastly, Gooch & Housego
►Modelling and qualification of high-reliability fused-fibre components
►Collaborations with ESA, AIRBUS, Thales, QinetiQ, Rolls Royce, Tyco Telecommunications (now Subcom), and Alcatel (now Nokia) involving the leading of more than 10 SME-based R&D projects
►Major advancements in telecoms, defence, civil engineering, electricity, formula-1, and medicine
Dr Philip James Henderson
Optical Technology/Research
Open to consultancy, Philip is a:
►Chartered physicist
►Expert developer of fibre-optic instrumentation
►Professorial teacher of physics
►Academic and corporate author
►And first-edition author and publisher of the entry-level textbook, Physics' Assimilation and Purpose (above Literary Work #1 ):
Whose current professional works involve:
►Conceiving a textbook on lasers
►The variational modelling of excited quantum states
►Team membership of EMMAY Associates
►Device reliability modelling at Gooch & Housego
In Memoriam
Maliha Henderson, 2006-2025
Budding expert writer and poet
Mature beyond her years, and sadly passed this world far too soon
Daughter of Dr Naveed Hasan Henderson and Dr Philip James Henderson
Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim, 1893-1959
Leading academic, philosopher, linguist, and writer
Grandfather of Dr Naveed Hasan Henderson
Dr Hakim is a former professor of philosophy at Osmania University (Hyderabad Deccan, Telangana), poet, critic, researcher, polyglot, translator, philologist, and noted author of several books on Rumi and Iqbal's philosophy, poetic ideas, and intellectual contributions, and the core beliefs and framework of Islam emphasising its applicability to modern life.
His education started at Lahore, followed by studies at Aligarh M.A.O. College (now Aligarh Muslim University), St Stephen’s College, Delhi (BA/MA), and Heidelberg University (PhD). His professional career started at Osmania University, where he was a founder professor of philosophy. With subsequent deputation for three years as Principal at Amar Singh College Sirinagar, he later became Director of Education in Sirinagar. In 1949 he founded the Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore, remaining a Director till his demise in 1959. Awarded an LLD honor’s causa by Punjab University, Dr Hakim's contributions are recognized by scholars in academic journals, annual memorial lectures, and by students in Doctoral and Master’s theses.
His main interest was in promotion of the universal values of Islam found in Natural Laws in the contemporary context. He lectured in Pakistan, the US, and at various international conferences. He was a member of various commissions, including the Muslim Families Law Commission, to give practical shape to ideas reflecting liberal aspects of Islam.
As admirably elaborated in his publications, Dr Hakim was particularly influenced by Allama Mohammad Iqbal and Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s lines of thinking. His books are now standard texts for scholars, such as on Ghalib’s philosophical thoughts in his poetry, and poetic translation of the Bhagvad Gita in Urdu verse. His books also involved translations of philosophical works of German authors into Urdu. And his speeches at national and international fora on philosophy and religion had a powerful impact on varied audiences.
Dr Hakim was survived by his wife Khadijah, his son Arif, and his daughter Rafia - who retired as Professor and Chairperson in Applied Psychology, Punjab University, Lahore - and is survived by his granddaughter Dr. Naveed Hasan Henderson.
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