Pakistani entrepreneur wins award

KARACHI: Greenovation, a startup by Saad Bin Azam, an entrepreneur from Islamabad, Pakistan has taken home one of the 2019 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators Awards, a statement said on Tuesday.

This is a global competition, which highlights and rewards businesses that demonstrate excellence in innovation, as well as giving entrepreneurs a chance to shine on a global platform, it added.

This year, Shell LiveWIRE has partnered with Shell Global Commercial, which supplies lubricants, aviation fuels, bitumen, sulphur and related services to one million business customers in 150 markets, to deliver a competition focused on the circular economy.

Shell aims at rewarding entrepreneurs that help move the world away from the linear economy model – taking, using, and disposing of products –towards an economy that designs waste out of the system, it added.