Open to full-time country roles, advisory & market-entry mandates

Hire a crypto Country Lead who can get your exchange licensed and live in Pakistan

I'm Malik Abbas — a crypto market-entry operator who has run exchange operations on the ground in Pakistan and pairs that with command of the PVARA licensing framework. If you're entering Pakistan, I'm the person who takes you from "we want this market" to authorised and operational.

Mandates I take on
Country Manager / GM — Pakistan
Own the market end to end: licensing, operations, team, growth.
Market-Entry & Regulatory Lead
PVARA licensing, SECP setup, and compliance to get you authorised.
Head of BD / Partnerships
KOL networks, partnerships, and user acquisition from day one.
Launch & Go-to-Market Lead
Events, community, and localised launch across Pakistani cities.
Track Record

Built inside the exchange industry

BingXPrior role
BD & Operations | Offline Events Lead
Ran BD, communications, and on-ground events for BingX across emerging markets — 10+ events, 15+ KOL partners.
CoinExPrior role · 1.5 yrs
Regional BD & PR Manager
Promoted from specialist. Led KOL campaigns, P2P merchant scaling, and events across Pakistan, the Philippines, and Bangladesh.
CoinConnectFounder
Founder & CEO — Crypto market-entry consultancy
Built Pakistan's dedicated crypto regulatory & market-entry consultancy. Engagements include work with Bybit.
Extreme CommercePrior role · 2 yrs
Influencer Marketing Manager
Led community-growth strategy and trained 8,000+ people in influencer marketing.

BingX, CoinEx, and Extreme Commerce are prior employers. Bybit is a CoinConnect engagement. Kept distinct on purpose.

By the numbers

Verifiable, not adjectives

225+
KOL relationships
25+
On-ground events
3
Markets operated in
8,000+
People trained
What I bring

The full entry stack in one operator

Regulatory & licensing

Working command of the PVARA framework — NOC vs Sandbox routes, fit-and-proper preparation, SECP incorporation, AML/CFT and FMU goAML — tracked at primary source.

Operations & BD

Partnerships, KOL networks, P2P/merchant scaling, and user acquisition — the commercial engine that turns a licence into volume.

Launch & community

Offline events, university roadshows, and bilingual (English/Urdu) community building across Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.

Availability

Engagement options

Employment
Full-Time Country Lead
Advisory
Market-Entry Mandate
Via CoinConnect
Managed Entry
Location
Pakistan / UAE / Remote
Timezone
PKT (GMT+5) — Flexible
Start
Immediately

Entering Pakistan? Let's talk.

Whether you need a full-time country lead, a market-entry mandate, or CoinConnect to run the whole launch — start the conversation.