Sana Shah has been involved with the Pakistani IT industry for the past 16 years. Currently she is heading AshreiTech Academy @ National Aerospace Science & Technology Park (NASTP) as Director Academy. Within a short span of time, that is only 4 months, the academy has successfully enrolled 300 students that are being trained in global technologies like Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft, Cisco and Cybersecurity. With Sana’s leadership the academy is now all geared up to expand in Lahore and Islamabad and the aim is to train more than 10,000 students in a year and create employability opportunities for these students.
Previously Sana was part of the National Incubation Center, Karachi team as Program Manager and was responsible for managing NIC Karachi’s incubation program. She joined NIC Karachi 2019 as Creative & Outreach Lead. Her core area of expertise is corporate communications, and she has helped to materialise industry partnerships for NIC Karachi startups.

Sana managed to bring INSEAD Business School’s entrepreneurship program to Pakistan where more than 200 businesses participated in 16 weeks long training called XSeed – MBA for startups.
Academy of Women Entrepreneur, a program by the US Embassy in Pakistan is another initiative where Sana co facilitates the Sindh program to train home led businesses of women residing in rural Sindh and help them scale their startups.

Before NIC Karachi, Sana was engaged with Rasala Publications, a well-known media entity amongst the local technology industry. Its commitment and dedication to supporting the local ICT industry came into effect even before most people understood what it meant to have an industry.

In 2008, Rasala Publications in conjunction with the USA based IDG, the world’s largest technology media house, launched IDG’s premier franchise CIO in Pakistan, a brand which quickly became the biggest tech media brand within a short span of time, recognized by anyone in the enterprise technology ecosystem.