Board & Staff

Danish Agboatwala is the co-founder of HOPE USA. He currently resides in New York, NY where he works at an investment bank. He recently completed his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a focus in Finance. He can be reached at danish@hopepakistan.org

Shafath Syed lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California with his wife Fareena and his daughter Imaan who was recently adopted through HOPE. By profession he is a marketing manager at Adobe Systems and worked at other high technology companies including Apple and Microsoft. He has a long history of volunteering in the Muslim community and is currently the president of SBIA (South Bay Islamic Association) as well an executive committee member of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).

Zafar Shah is one of HOPE's leading coordinator and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area , California. He is a graduate from Pakistan with major in Economics. By profession, he is a HR / Admin manager. He has a long history of volunteering in different Non Profit Organizations the Rotary Club. He is also affiliated with Urdu Academy of North America. He can be reached at zafar@hopepakistan.org

Sarah H. Nuttall is HOPE's lead coordinator in the Greater Houston area, where she has been instrumental in creating awareness about our mission. She is currently working as Manager Program Management Office for Baker Hughes, managing a portfolio of new product development projects. Sarah is also the founder of the Pakistan Adoption Group (www.pakistanadoption.com), an online information resource for adoption of children from Pakistan.

Saman Nizami: Saman is the Program Coordinator at HOPE USA where she is co-managing the Sponsor a Child program to ensure Karachi’s vulnerable children receive an education at HOPE's primary schools.

After obtaining a dual BA degree in Economics and History from the University of California, San Diego, Saman worked as a Senior Associate at one of the leading hospital revenue review consulting firms in the U.S. In pursuit of her passion for international development, Saman has worked on development projects in Pakistan with HOPE in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), malnutrition, and shelter restoration in rural Sindh for the flood victims. 

Saman is currently working for an international development consulting firm based in Washington D.C. on development projects in Asia. She can be reached at saman@hopepakistan.org