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S. Azhar Afaq Rizvi
Mr. Azhar Rizvi has been associated with the Information technology industry for almost two decades. During this period he has served at prestigious Multinational Organizations including NCR, AT&T and Unisys in Pakistan. He is the founding Director of THK Technology Group & served as the Group COO and Director from 2001 till 2008. The Group is a consortium of three Technology companies with expertise in Software development, BPO, ICT Risk Assurance, Six Sigma, Human Capital Management, and CRM.
He is currently working as the CEO and Director of TAN America Fund, the first Angel fund established in the US with the primary objective of investing in the Pakistani IT firms. He is also a member of the Board of Director of Cambridge Advisers Network.
In the social sector Mr. Rizvi is the
- District Chairman for Technical Education and Vocational Training of Rotary District 3270, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Founding Vice Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan (www.mitef-pakistan.org),
- Founding Member of Board of DAISY for All, Pakistan (www.daisy.org ), a world wide consortium for technology based learning for the blind and vision impaired and has established 5 centers of expertise in Pakistan. The centers are now converting books, periodicals for the vision impaired community.
- Chairperson CSR Committee of Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) www.pasha.org.
- Member Advisory Council Rashidabad Memorial, (www.rashidabad.org)
- Member Board of Advisors to the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Sindh, Pakistan.
- Member , Pakistan Innovation Board (www.competitiveness.org.pk/pib/)
Mr. Rizvi is an MBA from the University of Houston and M.Com from University of Karachi.
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Bill Aulet
Bill Aulet is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT he worked at Viisage as Chief Financial Officer. Before Viisage he had 20 years of operating experience. He most recently served as President of SensAble Technologies, a 3D Force Feedback Systems Company, where he was responsible for all aspects of business including the role of the CFO. Before joining SensAble, Aulet also founded Cambridge Decision Dynamics where he served as President for two years. Prior to this, he worked at IBM for over ten years in various management and executive positions including Manager of Finance and Planning for IBM's $900 million New England region. His career at IBM included various positions in the systems engineering, marketing and sales functions as well. A Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, Aulet holds a Bachelors in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and a Masters in Management Sciences through the prestigious Sloan Fellow program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Farrokh Captain
Mr. Farrokh K. Captain is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. After completing his Masters in Management and Chemical Engineering he worked as a Management Consultant with Arthur D. Little and established their practice in Pakistan. He has also led a major chemical manufacturing industry in Pakistan and been a director of Shell Pakistan Ltd and the American Business Council of Pakistan. He retired from active business at the age of 50 and has spent the years since exclusively in the field of social work. He is a Trustee of Layton Rehmatulla Benevolent Trust, and Chairman of the Friends of LRBT, as well as being associated in various capacities with the Doon School of Society of Pakistan, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, The Central Institute of Arts and Crafts, The Sandal School and has a 28 years relationship of representing MIT in Pakistan.
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Hussain Dawood
Mr. Hussain Dawood is a Director on the Board of Si3. Mr. Hussain received a degree in Metallurgy from Sheffield University in 1966, and completed his Master of Business Administration program from J.L.Kellog Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University in 1968.
Mr. Dawood is the Chairman of The Dawood Group and Engro Chemical Pakistan Limited. He is a Director on the Board of Pakistan Refinery Ltd. and Pakistan Business Council.
Mr. Dawood is the Government of Pakistan nominated Chairman of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), a World Bank financed Apex NGO established by the Government.
Mr.Dawood is the Honorary Consul of Italy in Lahore. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum and a regular participant in the Annual Meetings held in Davos.
Mr. Dawood is a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Dawood College of Engineering & technology, and Member of the Board of Governors of Beaconhouse National University, and Beaconhouse Foundation, Member of the Board of the University of Management and Technology.
He has been a member of several delegations headed by the President / Prime Minister of Pakistan including delegation to World Economic Forum, Switzerland, and delegation to Bangladesh, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and Turkmenistan.
He has served as Director of the State Bank of Pakistan; Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan, Member Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre; Member Board of Governors of Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology; Director of SOPREST (Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences & Technology); Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital; Senator of the University of the Punjab; Director on the Board of the Hailey College of Commerce; Member of the Board of Governors of the Centre for Advanced Molecular Biology; Member of the Board of Governors of the Centre of High Energy Physics; Director of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority, Punjab Government, Members of the Workers Welfare Board, Punjab Government, Member of Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Member of Management Association of Pakistan and Member of Pakistan American Cultural Council.
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Imran Qidwai
As founder and president of Zaviah, Imran Qidwai delivers his unique strategic perspective and guidance based on more than 20 years of experience in the global computer and telecommunications industry, with the past 7 years in the mobile market. Experienced in managing distributed development teams between US & offshore locations, he is knowledgeable in the current trends in offshoring, outsourcing and BPO.
Tapping his vast experience in mobile entertainment and data services, mobile messaging, and location and presence as well as his extensive experience in software engineering management, Imran created Zaviah as a strategic resource for global executives looking to navigate the myriad issues and challenges of formulating effective technology strategies. Zaviah works closely with its clients to address the constantly evolving wireless and telecommunications market, as well as the intricacies of effective offshoring and outsourcing business models.
During his career, Imran has worked at large and small, publicly traded and private companies and in 1999, as an entrepreneur himself, co-founded MessageMachines, Inc., a Boston based startup focused on the mobile and wireless messaging and data market. After a successful run, the company was acquired by NMS Communications in April 2002. More recently, he joined the founding team of Web 2.0 startup Scrybe, and helped the company raise angel financing in early 2007.
Imran spent many years at Lotus Development (acquired by IBM), where he managed various engineering groups in the areas of wireless messaging, mobile communications, unified messaging, computer telephony, real-time spreadsheets, and SaaS and ASP solutions. Imran was also VP of Engineering at SoftLinx, focused on Internet based fax messaging products for the enterprise. Imran’s career experiences have touched several global technology icons, with work experience at such industry leaders as NMS Communications, Digital Equipment (HP/Compaq), Philips Electronics, and International Computers Limited (Fujitsu).
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Imran Sayeed
Imran Sayeed leads the Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) practice for Keane, a global BPO and IT Services company with ~10,000 professionals worldwide. (NYSE: KEA). FSI is the largest vertical at Keane, with a majority of the top 100 global banks and insurance carriers as clients, and billable professionals across the US, Canada, UK & India. Sayeed came to Keane through its acquisition of netNumina, a boutique technology strategy and consulting form that he founded and grew from a 15 person startup to one of Computerwold's Top 100 emerging companies. netNumina won more than 30 of the leading financial services & pharmaceutical institutions in the world as clients, raised more than $25MM from venture capitalists and strategic investors and received more than 20 industry awards for its work.
Sayeed has over fifteen years of experience in software and services. Previously, as a founder of Open Environment, Sayeed helped pioneer multi-tier client server technology, and grew the company from a 10-person startup to an IPO and leadership in the middleware market.
Sayeed has written and spoken extensively in leading industry conferences and trade journals over the last 13 years on entrepreneurship, e-business, financial services, insurance and technology. Sayeed serves on the Advisory Board of several software and private equity companies. Sayeed also holds a patent on technology for providing secure financials transactions over the Internet that he jointly developed with Citigroup. He is currently a visiting professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he teaches in the MBA program on technology business strategy.
Sayeed attended Brown University where he majored in Engineering, and Harvard University, where he did post-graduate work in business, marketing and product development.
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Ken Morse
Ken is the Managing Director of MIT Entrepreneurship Center. As Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Ken Morse leads the MIT effort to develop leaders to bring innovative concepts and technologies to market and build successful new high tech start-up businesses. He co-teaches a Special Seminar in Entrepreneurship: Technology Sales and Sales Management and the Entrepreneurship Laboratory course, in which teams of engineering, science, and MBA students work on important problems in startup ventures that are "keeping the CEO awake at night." He studies the use of corporate venture investing to achieve strategic advantage, and the international sales and marketing challenges faced by fast-growing high tech firms.
Ken currently serves on the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
In addition to China Capital Ventures, he is also on the Advisory Boards of PolyTechnos Venture-Partners (Munich), Darby Technology Ventures Group LLC, SINTEF A/S (Trondheim, Norway), Lagan Technologies Ltd. ( Belfast, Ireland) and Meridio Ltd. (Belfast, Ireland). Ken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Monis Rehman
Monis Rahman is the Chairman and CEO of Naseeb Networks, Inc., a Silicon Valley new media company with offshore offices in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Mr. Rahman has founded and run several companies ranging from Internet startups to chip design consultancies. He has raised venture capital for two Internet startups in Silicon Valley, and has nine patents to his credit. Mr. Rahman started his career at Intel Corporation where he was a key member of Intel's microprocessor design team. He completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and did graduate work at Stanford University in Computer Engineering. He has been featured by numerous magazines and newspapers including CNN, InfoWorld, Red Herring, Infoweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Spider.
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Muddasar Malik
Mr. Muddassar is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of BMA Capital. He is Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of BMA Funds, a wholly owned asset management subsidiary of BMA Capital and is a member of the Executive Management Committee responsible for the overall strategy for the Group. As CEO, his responsibilities include rolling out and managing the asset management business for BMA Funds
Prior to this, Muddassar built and managed the equities business for the firm including domestic and international sales and research and has been involved in landmark capital markets transactions helping BMA hold the No. 1 position in privatization advisory.
Muddassar holds an MBA in Finance and Corporate Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Management (1991). He also holds Bachelors degree in Economics (1986) and a Masters degree in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1987).
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Naeem Zafar
Naeem is the founding partner of Concordia Ventures, a company dedicated to educate and help entrepreneurs with all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem has been with six startups and has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching CEOs.
His last assignment was the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology. Naeem has been president and CEO of two other high tech startups (Silicon Design Systems and Veridicom, a Bell Labs spin-off that invented the silicon fingerprint sensors today found on most laptops). Naeem has held senior marketing and engineering positions at several companies including Quickturn Design Systems that had an IPO in 1993 and grew to $125M in revenues.
Naeem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), Rhode Island, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Naeem is currently on the faculty of Haas Business school at the University of California Berkeley where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the MBA program. He has lectured or co-taught at UCLA, Brown University and at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan where he serves as an advisor to Entrepreneurship & Small & Medium Enterprise Center (ESMEC).
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Shuja Keen
Shuja Keen is the Vice President and Head of Global Business Development at TRG.
Mr. Keen has extensive hands-on experience in developing and managing technology companies. Prior to TRG, he co-founded HauteDecor, a New York based B2B solution for the high-end interior architecture and design industry. While at HauteDecor, Mr. Keen raised over $15 million in venture capital financing and led the company from concept to a product design and development process, and negotiated strategic partnerships with several leading technology companies. Prior to that, he worked in the Strategic Capital Allocation Group at Morgan Stanley, where he advised on asset allocation of over $2.5 billion in the alternative investments sector - private equity and hedge funds, and constructed business models enabling Fortune 50 firms to rationalize international cash flow management. Mr. Keen also served as an early stage advisor to Centrata, a Kleiner Perkins backed startup.
Mr. Keen received his Bachelor´s of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Keen is the Chairman of the Boards of TRG Europe, Plc, and TRG Philippines, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of TeleSpectrum, Inc., iSKY, Inc., and Central Voice, LLC.
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Dr. Zahir Ali Syed
Dr. Zahir Ali Syed, is a highly qualified and experienced IT professional with over 20 years of experience in IT Solutions & Consultancy, Software Development, IT Education and Computer Aided Design (CAD). Currently he is Chairman of Avanza Solutions, Pakistan; an international software organization, that delivers state-of-art, small scale to enterprise level solutions in the e-Banking, eCRM and e-Business areas. Avanza has offices in New York, Madrid, Dubai, Doha and Karachi. He is a Board Member of the National ICT R&D Fund, a company under MoIT which aims to establish an R&D culture in the ICT sector of Pakistan. He is also Co-Chairman of the MITCEF (MIT Club of Pakistan Enterprise Forum) an organization that aims to promote the establishment of Entrepreneurial Eco-System in Pakistan. Previously he was the Director of Karachi Institute of Information Technology and helped establish and manage the ABM Group of Companies that provided IT solutions to the Pakistan Market. He got a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Computer Aided Design, from University of Southern California (USC) and Stanford University and MS degree again in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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