TRG CEO to Resign From All Roles Amid Sexual Assault Allegations

An employee makes a phone call while working at the Avise Techno Solutions LLP call center in Kolkata, India, on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017. India's political stability and reform push -- including a nationwide consumption tax -- prompted a first upgrade of its sovereign rating in 14 years from Moody's Investors Service in November. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg Photographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg , Bloomberg

Linus Chua, Bloomberg News

Nov 28, 2021

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(Bloomberg) -- TRG Pakistan Ltd. said in a statement that Chief Executive Officer Zia Chishti will resign from all roles in the company.

Earlier this month, Chishti stepped down from his roles as CEO, chairman and board director at Afiniti Ltd., a TRG-linked company. That departure came two days after a 23-year-old former employee testified before a U.S. Congressional committee that he sexually assaulted her during a business trip to Brazil.

Chishti, who spent more than a decade building Afiniti, a company he said would revolutionize the way call centers operate, will also step down from his role as chairman of the Resource Group International Ltd., which owns a stake in Afiniti. 

The Pakistani-American previously launched the Invisalign dental braces business, which is now worth $47 billion. He founded the company that would become Afiniti in 2006 as a call-center operator. 

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