Leadership
Board of Directors
![Bestway Group Chairman Sir Anwar Pervez](/assets/leadership/chairman-sir-anwar-pervez.jpg)
Sir Anwar Pervez, OBE H Pk
Chairman, Bestway Group
![Bestway Group CEO Lord Choudrey](/assets/leadership/ceo-lord-choudrey.jpg)
The Lord Choudrey, CBE SI Pk
Chief Executive Officer,
Bestway Group
![Bestway Wholesale Chairman Younus Sheikh](/assets/leadership/chairman-younus-sheikh.jpg)
Younus Sheikh, BSc
Chairman,
Bestway Wholesale
![MAP Trading Managing Director Rizwan Pervez](/assets/leadership/md-rizwan-pervez.jpg)
Rizwan Pervez ACA, BSc
Managing Director,
MAP Trading
![Bestway Wholesale Managing Director Dawood Pervez](/assets/leadership/md-dawood-pervez.jpg)
Dawood Pervez BA (Hons), FRSA, MA Oxon, Solicitor
Managing Director,
Bestway Wholesale
![Bestway Group CFO Haider Choudrey](/assets/leadership/cfo-haider-choudrey.jpg)
Haider Choudrey ACA, MA (Hons) Cantab
Chief Financial Officer,
Bestway Group
- Chairman of Bestway Group
- Founded Bestway Group in 1976, when he opened the Wholesale business’ first depot in Victoria Road, London
- Chairman of Well Pharmacy, Bestway Cement Limited and United Bank Limited
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bestway Foundation and Patron-in-Chief of Bestway Foundation Pakistan, the Group’s charitable trusts
- Awarded Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen in 1992
- Conferred the title of Knight’s Bachelor by Her Majesty the Queen in 1999
- Awarded the “Hilal-E-Pakistan” (Crescent of Pakistan) by the President of Pakistan in 2000
- Awarded “The Grocer Cup” for Outstanding Business Achievement” by the Institute of Grocery Distribution in 2005
- Awarded the “Sitara-E-Essar” (Star of Sacrifice) by the President of Pakistan in 2006
- Received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from FC College University, Lahore Pakistan in 2011 and from the University of Bradford in the UK in 2012
- Chief Executive of Bestway Group
- Joined Bestway Group in 1984 and has held a number of roles including Financial Controller and Group Finance Director
- Led the Group’s expansion into Pakistan through the setup of Bestway Cement Limited and acquisition of United Bank Limited
- Led the Group’s diversification into pharmacy through the acquisition of Well Pharmacy
- Chief Executive of Bestway Cement Limited and a Director of Bestway Wholesale, Well Pharmacy and United Bank Limited
- Founding Trustee of Bestway Foundation and Chairman of Bestway Foundation Pakistan
- Fellow of the ICAEW and a graduate of the University of Kent
- Chairman of the Conservative Friends of Pakistan
- Chairman of the UK Advisory Council of HRH’s The British Asian Trust
- Received an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from University of Kent in 2014
- Awarded “The Grocer Cup” for Outstanding Business Achievement” by the Institute of Grocery Distribution in 2015
- Appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty the Queen in 2015
- Awarded the “Sitara-E-Imtiaz” (Star of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan in 2018
- He was nominated for a life peerage and made Baron Choudrey of Hampstead in 2019
- Chairman of Bestway Wholesale
- Founder Director of Bestway, with over 50 years of experience in the UK’s independent wholesale sector
- He is also a Director of Bestway Cement Limited
- Previously held a number of roles within the Wholesale business, including Trading Director and Managing Director
- Trustee of the Bestway Foundation UK and Bestway Foundation Pakistan
- Awarded the “Outstanding Achievement Award” by the Federation of Wholesale Distributors in 2015
- Managing Director of MAP Trading, the Group’s ethnic foodstuffs business
- Joined the business as Financial Accountant and has accumulated over 27 years with Bestway Group
- Previously held a number of roles within Bestway Wholesale, including Operations Director, Marketing Director and Business Development Director
- Director of United Bank Limited and UBL Insurers Limited
- Trustee of Bestway Foundation
- Member of the ICAEW and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh
- Managing Director of Bestway Wholesale
- Joined Bestway in 2002 and was appointed to the Group Board in 2004
- Previously led a variety of departments within Bestway Wholesale including Legal, HR, Learning & Development, Property, Health & Safety and Marketing
- Company Secretary for Bestway Group’s UK companies
- Director of Bestway Wholesale and Bestway Cement Limited
- Trustee of Bestway Foundation, GroceryAid and the Batleys Retirement Benefits Scheme
- Prior to joining Bestway, worked at Linklaters
- Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
- Degrees from The University of Manchester in Politics & Modern History and also from Oxford University in Jurisprudence
- Group CFO with financial and strategic responsibility for all business units
- Joined Bestway Group in 2012 and was appointed to the Group Board in 2018
- Previously held a number of roles within Bestway including Financial Controller and Head of Group Finance
- Director of Bestway Wholesale, Well Pharmacy, Bestway Cement and United Bank Limited
- Trustee of Bestway Foundation
- Member of the Vice Chancellor’s Circle at the University of Cambridge
- Graduate of the University of Cambridge, with a degree in Economics
- Member of the ICAEW having previously trained with KPMG UK