Nighat Awan OBE
CEO, Shere Khan Group
Nighat counts four highly successful and very diverse companies amongst her business achievements, encompassing fashion, floristry and food. She is currently CEO of the Shere Khan Group of restaurants and food products.
Nighat is equally well known for her tireless charitable activities, which include work for Business in the Community (for whom she is one of 26 nationwide ‘ambassadors’), The Prince’s Trust, Cancer BACUP, the Pakistan Human Development Fund and Bolton Business Ventures.
In Summer 2004 Nighat was awarded the O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her services to export and to charity.
More recently she has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution award at Manchester’s Food and Drink festival (2004), the Business Award in the Muslim News Awards for Excellence (2005) and the Entrepreneur Award in the Asian Women of Achievement Awards (2005). Nighat is currently a finalist in the Great Briton 2005 Awards, alongside such household names as Jamie Oliver and Dame Ellen MacArthur, with winners to be announced on 26 January 2006.
Nighat lives in Hale, Cheshire and is married with three children.
