About
Waseem Yousaf is General Manager APAC at Systems Limited, bringing over 25 years of sales and professional services leadership experience across Pakistan, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Europe. He has managed large, geographically distributed teams and overseen business operations valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, with expertise in digital transformation, SaaS sales, solution delivery, and P&L management. Yousaf maintains an active network in Pakistan and the Asia Pacific region and is involved with several Pakistani startups focused on cloud-based service adoption.
Experience
- Systems Limited - APACGeneral Manager APACcurrent2025 — presentSingapore
- Systems Limited - APACSenior Vice President ASEAN2023 — 2024Singapore, Singapore
- Matwa GroupSenior Advisorcurrent2021 — presentSingapore, Singapore
- MATRIXX SoftwareDirector Sales2022 — 2023Singapore, Singapore
- Circles.LifeDirector, International Launch and Account Management2019 — 2021Singapore, Singapore
- NokiaHead of Global Sales Engagement - NPO2015 — 2018Singapore
- NokiaHead of NPO BL, Asia Middle East and Africa2012 — 2015Singapore, Singapore
- NokiaHead of Global Services, Middle East Central2010 — 2012Dubai, UAE
- NokiaHead of Service, Singapore and Malaysia2009 — 2010Singapore, Singapore
- NokiaHead of Program Management, APAC2008 — 2009Singapore, Singapore
- NokiaHead of Service Operations, Indonesia2007 — 2008Jakarta, Indonesia
- SiemensGeneral Program Manager2005 — 2007Jakarta, Indonesia
- SiemensService Project Manager2003 — 2006Jakarta, Indonesia
- SiemensSenior UMTS Expert2000 — 2003Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- SiemensSenior GPRS Specialist, GPRS1999 — 2000Munich, Germany
- Siemens AGTechnical Expert, GSM1997 — 1999Germany
- SiemensTechnical Expert, Fixed Networks1996 — 1997Islamabad, Pakistan
Education
- National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)1992 — 1996
- University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical1992 — 1996
- Fauji Foundation School1985 — 1991
Skills & more
Management61Strategic Planning16Strategy14Team Management58GSM99Business Support System (BSS)5Program Management64Product Management15Service Delivery22Integration64Cross-functional Team Leadership11Business Intelligence4
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Pre-salesTelecommunications3GProject ManagementUMTSManaged ServicesOperations ManagementGPRSWirelessProject PlanningNetwork DesignService Management- Cloud Technical Series '23 — Google Cloud Asia Pacific
- Transformational Leadership — Harvard Business School
- Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization — Google
- Art and Science of Machine Learning — Google
- Feature Engineering — Google
- Intro to TensorFlow — Google
- How Google does Machine Learning — Google
- Launching into Machine Learning — Google
- Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure — Google
From Waseem's professional profile.
Colleagues at Systems Limited
Ahmed Kandil
General Manager, Systems Egypt at Systems Limited
Ammara Masood
General Manager, BFS at Systems Limited
Asif Akram
Group Chief Operating Officer at Systems Limited
Asif Peer
Group CEO & Managing Director at Systems Limited
Faisal Tajammal
Head of Customer Service & Delivery at Systems Limited
Imran Soofi
General Manager, Telco at Systems Limited
Javeria Fahad
Group Chief Marketing Officer at Systems Limited
Khurram Majeed
General Manager, Systems MEA at Systems Limited
Frequently asked questions
- Where does Waseem Yousaf work?
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Also attended University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore2
Shared employers
Also worked at MATRIXX Software2
Also worked at Circles.Life2
Also worked at Nokia164
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