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About Maaz Ahmed Khan

From a Job to Building My Own Businesses

I’m Maaz Ahmed Khan, an entrepreneur from Pakistan. My journey has taken me from administration and corporate roles to building businesses of my own.

I started my career in administration at the same school where I completed my matriculation. During that time, I also co-founded Sunlit Language Centre with the school owner and an English teacher. This was my first experience of building and managing a business.

After that, I joined SAPS for on-the-job training as a Traffic Assistant, where I worked in areas including baggage control and check-in operations. After completing the three-month training, I joined Rajby Textiles as a Marketing Assistant.

Less than two years later, I moved to Artistic Apparels as a Product Developer. After six months, I joined Zaheer Fabrics as a Business Development Manager. I spent less than two years there before joining Sunberg as a Merchandiser.

These roles gave me exposure to administration, aviation operations, marketing, product development, business development, merchandising, textiles, and customer relationships. More importantly, they helped me understand how businesses operate from different perspectives.

After several years of professional experience, I decided to start working on my own businesses.

From Employment to Entrepreneurship

My first attempt was a textile sourcing and buying-house business. It did not succeed as I had hoped, but it taught me important lessons about market access, customer acquisition, partnerships, and execution.

I then moved into general order supplies, a business that grew more successfully. This business continues to operate under H&H Enterprise, which I run with my partner. Today, I mainly oversee and guide the business while the day-to-day operations are managed by the team.

Alongside H&H Enterprise, I started Green Tech Ventures, a digital agency offering services such as web development, search engine optimization, and graphic design. While running the agency, I realized that the business model was not as sustainable as I had initially expected. Instead of continuing to push the agency in a direction that was not working, I decided to adapt the business.

I began adding leather brands to GTV and used the company to develop and manage them. This decision eventually led me to a much larger opportunity.

Building Tannorium

While working with leather brands, I noticed a significant gap in the market.

Pakistan is widely known for its leather manufacturing capabilities and skilled workforce. However, its leather exports do not reflect the full potential of the industry. The problem was not necessarily the ability to produce quality leather products. The bigger problem was visibility and access to international buyers.

General marketplaces such as Alibaba, eBay, Etsy, and Amazon serve many industries, but they are not designed specifically around the needs of the leather industry. Manufacturers often struggle to present their capabilities, reach relevant buyers, and build direct business relationships.

This led me to build Tannorium, a global marketplace for the leather industry where buyers can discover manufacturers and connect with them directly for individual products or bulk orders.

Tannorium is built around a simple idea: Pakistan’s manufacturers already have capability. They need better visibility, stronger market access, and a more organized way to connect with global buyers.

Building Bethak from Experience

My entrepreneurial journey has also shown me how difficult business can become without the right relationships and support.

Looking back, many of the challenges I faced could have been easier to navigate if I had access to the right people, practical guidance, and a strong professional community. Finding reliable partners, understanding new industries, accessing opportunities, and making important decisions can be especially difficult for young entrepreneurs when they are trying to figure everything out alone.

This realization led me to build Bethak.

Bethak is a professional community designed to help entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and professionals build meaningful relationships and access relevant opportunities. It is backed by serial entrepreneurs, successful businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are willing to share their experience and give back to society.

The purpose of Bethak is not simply to create another networking group. It is to build a stronger support system for people who are building businesses and careers, particularly those who may not already have access to the right networks.

Learning Business by Building

For me, entrepreneurship is not just about starting companies. It is about getting close to real problems and figuring out what it takes to solve them.

My experience has involved failed attempts, changing directions, difficult partnerships, limited resources, and businesses that did not develop as expected. These experiences have taught me that having a good idea is only the beginning. Turning an idea into something people use, trust, and pay for requires continuous learning and execution.

I have also learned that building a business rarely follows a straight line. Sometimes the right decision is to continue. Sometimes it is to adapt. And sometimes it is to stop pushing an unsustainable idea and use what you have learned to pursue a better opportunity.

What I’m Building

Today, my work spans several ventures, each focused on a different opportunity:

Tannorium is a global marketplace for the leather industry, helping international buyers discover manufacturers and connect with them directly.

Bethak is a professional community built around meaningful relationships, practical support, and relevant opportunities.

H&H Enterprise is a general order supplies business that I run with my partner. The business helps meet procurement requirements through sourcing and supplier relationships.

Green Tech Ventures represents my work in digital services and the foundation from which I began developing and managing digital businesses and leather brands.

Although these ventures operate in different areas, they reflect a common interest: identifying practical problems and building solutions around them.

My Perspective on Entrepreneurship

I believe many opportunities exist where existing ways of doing business have not kept pace with changing needs.

In some industries, the challenge is visibility. In others, it is access to the right people, reliable suppliers, practical guidance, or the resources needed to move forward. Technology can help address these problems, but only when it is built around a genuine need.

I’m interested in building businesses that solve practical problems rather than pursuing ideas simply because they sound impressive.

I also believe that entrepreneurship becomes more sustainable when people do not have to build entirely alone. Strong relationships, experienced guidance, reliable partners, and supportive communities can significantly improve the chances of making better decisions.

The Journey Continues

I’m still building, learning, and figuring things out.

My journey from employment to entrepreneurship has not been a straight path. It has included different industries, multiple roles, failed attempts, successful businesses, changing directions, and new opportunities that emerged from earlier experiences.

My focus now is on developing businesses that create lasting value, strengthening the relationships around them, and building solutions that can grow beyond their initial markets.

I’m particularly interested in the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, commerce, manufacturing, and the opportunities available to businesses and entrepreneurs in Pakistan.

This website is where I share the ventures I’m building, the lessons I learn along the way, and my perspective on entrepreneurship and business development.

If you’re building something of your own, working on an interesting problem, or see an opportunity worth exploring, I’d be glad to connect.

Connect with me on LinkedIn or get in touch.

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