The DANKA Organization / Team

Danka is an open platform. Its work is based on active contribution and feedback of the community, that means you as an Internet user can modify the contents of the site including events information. Danka works very close with cultural organizers, the public and the artists and considers them as part of the Danka team. Everybody is welcome to join our team in one of the specified fields to improve cultural activities in Pakistan and abroad. Please contact us at

Danka Headquarters
Gulberg III
Lahore, Pakistan
(please call for full address)
Landline: +92 42 7041605 (English/Urdu)
Mobile 1: +92 300 453 6811 (English)
Mobile 2: +92 323 416 9776 (Urdu/Punjabi)
info(at)danka.com.pk

or write your enquiries directly to the persons in charge:

Management & Coordination

Foaad Nizam, foaad(at)danka.com.pk (Lahore)
Sajjad Haider, sajjad(at)danka.com.pk (Lahore)
Sara Azeem, sara(at)danka.com.pk (Lahore)
Mansoor Adenwala, mansoor(at)danka.com.pk (Karachi)
Muhammad Asif Razzaque, masif(at)danka.com.pk (Islamabad / Rawalpindi)
Dr. Andreas Daniel Matt, andreas(at)danka.com.pk (Europe)
(Contact for Marketing, Sponsorship, Co-operations, Finances)

IT & Web Technology
Mansoor Adenwala, mansoor(at)danka.com.pk (Karachi)
(Contact for Web-Portal Development, IT Consulting, Technical Questions)

Media, Events & Communication
Umair Jameel, umair(at)danka.com.pk (Lahore)
Shaza Nishat Ahmed, shaza(at)danka.com.pk (Karachi)
Andre Rapp, andre(at)danka.com.pk (Islamabad / Rawalpindi)
(Contact for Event Management, Media, Journalism and General Enquiries)

Danka Productions (Europe)
Martin Beddeleem, Beatrice Cailmail, productions(at)danka.com.pk
(Contact for Events/Workshops in Europe, International Artists Exchange)

Danka - Cultural Guide is supported by proLoka Pakistan (www.proLoka.org).


Core Team (Lahore)

Andreas Daniel Matt Andreas Daniel Matt
Captain

At Danka nobody does math better than Andreas! Dr. Andreas holds Ph.D. in Computers and Mathematics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.. If it weren’t for Danka to be founded here in Lahore, he would have been across the world twice. And that too, in his antique wagon!

Connections: proLoka, ipsum, Sanjannagar Institute, DirektHilfe

Management & Coordination Cluster | andreas(at)danka.com.pk

Foaad Nizam
Additional Driver (yes, we have the post!)

About Foaad they say 'Don't judge by the cover'. He has all the ingredients to be a part of Pakistani cricket team; tons of potential energy threatening to break loose but mainly for the consistancy part! He teaches Guitar at Lahore Chitrkar, and is invariably found on almost every musical evening.

Connections: Lahore Chitrkar

IT & Web Technology Cluster | foaad(at)danka.com.pk

Sajjad Haider Sajjad Haider
Sarkari Sajjad

Sarkari Sajjad is working at the Lahore Transport Company LTC (www.ltc.gop.pk) as the managaer operations since he finished his MBA from LUMS. Sajjad is reliable as rock, one of our main managers since he joined Danka in 2006 and a humorous and just too nice chap!

Connections: LTC, LUMS, ADP

Media, Events & Communication Cluster | sajjad(at)danka.com.pk

Asif Zaman Asif Zaman
Official Danka Tourguide

Nobody can show you Lahore with more fun than Asif. Due to the knowledge of many languages and the deep history of Lahore and Pakistan every trip with him seems like an adventure. Beside giving tours in Lahore he is an official tourguide for several other parts in Pakistan, including the Northern Areas and can organise transportation and hotel.

Connection: Danka Tourguide

Official Danka Tourguide | Ph.: 03004619805

Sara Sara Azeem
Keeper of the Vault

Sara is the heart of our team and the core finance and accounting boss. She lives and studies in Lahore (she is studying a lot these days). Sara is enthusiastic about local culture and always remembers her primary school essay titled "Lahore is the historical city of Pakistan".

 

Finance and Accounting | sara(at)danka.com.pk

Umair JameelUmair Jameel
Smuggler

Umair is our birth control specialist populating the Danka website with events, pictures and all other information. Additionally he has good marketing ideas and stays up all night at work on the website.

Editing and Marketing | umair(at)danka.com.pk

Extended Team

Our extended team is what we love to refer as operational staff or Danka's lifeline. Without all these friends, we're nothing but another ambitious dead venture.

Pierre Jolit
Co-Founder and Friend
Benedikt Stanzel
Local Coordination
Fouad Bajwa
Networking / Open Source
fouad(at)danka.com.pk
Abdul Manan Ejaz
Design / Layout / Graphics
manan(at)danka.com.pk
Lukas Berger
Events / Supervision
lukas(at)danka.com.pk
 
   
Alumni (former Danka members)

Danka is like a big family. Many of our family members joined us while they were in Lahore or for a certain period of time. We are grateful for their great input and efforts. They contributed immensly to Danka and were responsible for major parts of its development.

Jakob Steiner (Sufi Event Hunter)
Yassir Hussain
Jakob Steinkogler
Aamer Mukhtar
Mathilde Beziau Shahzad Syed
Aun Raza
Saadia Fatima
Muhammad Atif Brigitte Hochrainer
Jawad Amin Zahid Bajwa
Mustafa Nazir Ahmad Danyal Rashid

 



We extend our thanks for support and help to: Sajjad Ahmad Rana (Graphic Design), Ahsen Rizvi (Graphic Design), Waseem Malik (Think Tank), Shahid Mirza (Think Tank), Bade (Constant Help), Imad (Press).

We are actively looking for motivated partners in charge of providing information for one specific field – music, theatre, exhibitions etc. Applications are expected. Please send an email to info(at)danka.com.pk.



 



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