Speakers

Aaref Hilaly
CEO, Clearwell Systems

Aaref is the President and CEO of Clearwell Systems, a pioneer in Email Intelligence funded by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Clearwell, he was Co-Founder, President and CEO of CenterRun, which he led from inception in 2000 to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in August 2003. CenterRun was a leading provider of application provisioning software and today forms the basis of Sun's data center automation product suite.

Prior to CenterRun, he worked in corporate and business development at Excite@Home Networks, which at that time was one of the largest internet companies. He joined Excite@Home from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting company. At BCG, Aaref led projects advising Fortune 500 companies on a variety of sales, marketing and product development issues, with particular focus in the software and telecommunications industries.

Aaref earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. He holds a BA Honor's degree from Oxford University, and a Master's degree from McGill University, where he was awarded the Arthur Tagge Fellowship.

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Adnan Lawai
CEO, Folio3

Adnan is a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur with extensive experience in product development, sales, business development and marketing. Prior to Folio3, Adnan was Chief Technology Officer at Clickmarks, a venture backed company focused on providing a rapid, cost effective solution for performing integration and wireless enablement of enterprise applications. At Clickmarks, Adnan was responsible for defining and executing on the technical direction of the company as well as its key technical sales and marketing activities, including its alliances with Sun Microsystems and Plumtree Software. Before Clickmarks, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he worked on Digital Media, Advanced Graphics, and led SGI's involvement at the MPEG-4 forum.

Adnan has also worked at General Instrument (now part of Motorola) and as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab on digital video and on advanced modem design. He has a BS and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Ahsan Saleem
Director, TCF; CEO, Crescent Steel

Founder and Director, The Citizens Foundation; CEO, Crescent Steel and Allied Products

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Ali Asghar
VP, ePals; Former VP AOL

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Ammar Hanafi
General Partner, Alloy Ventures

Ammar H. Hanafi joined Alloy Ventures as a General Partner in 2005 from Cisco Systems. Ammar received a B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University. His last role at Cisco was Vice President of New Business Ventures where he led new product efforts in the enterprise datacenter market. From 2000 to 2002, he was Vice President of Corporate Business Development and in that capacity, he was responsible for Cisco's acquisitions, acquisition integration, investment, and joint venture activity on a global basis. During Ammar's tenure, Cisco's Business Development Group completed over 50 acquisitions and made over $750 million in venture capital investments.

Prior to Cisco, Ammar held positions at PanAmSat Corporation, a global satellite services provider, and the investment banking firms of Morgan Stanley and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Ammar is a director of 3Leaf Networks.

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Amra Tareen
CEO, Masala Inc

Amra is the CEO of Masal Inc. Since joining Sevin Rosen Funds in early 2000, Amra Tareen has focused on telecommunications and networking, with a particular interest in networking technology and researching investment opportunities in cable and broadband. Her previous experience includes management positions at leading communications companies Lucent Technologies and Ascend Communications, where she played a key role in growing Ascend's DSL business. She currently sits on the boards of Clovis, Lambda Optical Systems, and Lemur. Amra Tareen holds a BA in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Ayaz ul Haque
Managing Director, ePlanet Ventures

Mr. Haque focuses principally on ePlanet’s expansion and later-stage investments in India and the United States and has represented the firm’s investment interests in Clickmarks, Cyanea, Ember, IXI, Karodpati and Techpacific. Prior to joining ePlanet, Mr. Haque was the Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Crosby Financial Holdings in London, where he managed the cross-border corporate finance advisory and investment initiatives of one of the leading Asia-focused specialist investment banks. While at Crosby, Mr. Haque focused on both mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments and worked in London, Singapore and Seoul. Prior to his involvement with Crosby Financial Holdings, Mr. Haque was the Associate Director of Corporate Finance at Peregrine Investments, a pan-Asian investment bank, where he was responsible for developing Peregrine's corporate finance and private equity businesses in the Middle East, and for identifying and evaluating Middle East to Asia investment opportunities. Mr. Haque was also an associate in the Corporate Finance Group of Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York, where he was responsible for North American and Asian transaction execution. Mr. Haque is a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College, holding a B.A. in Economics.

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Bari Abdul
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Consumer Marketing

Bari Abdul, Senior Vice President for Worldwide Consumer Marketing at McAfee has 18+ years of General Management and Marketing experience in Consumer Technology and Consumer Products. Bari successfully leveraged his marketing and management experience at Fortune 15 blue chip companies Procter and Gamble and PepsiCo into building an expertise in consumer technology. Bari also helped build businesses Internationally with P&G and PepsiCo. In consumer technology, Bari has worked on both software and hardware products as well as Internet services and eCommerce at high profile Silicon Valley companies. Prior to McAfee, Bari was the Chief Operating Officer at Capcom Entertainment, a leading Japanese Video games company. At Sonicblue, where Bari served as the Senior Vice President-Marketing & eCommerce he developed and implemented marketing strategies for the company’s audio and video products across the company’s four divisions. Bari also served as Senior Vice President Marketing at Egghead.com/Onsale building the brands and overseeing acquisitions and spin-offs of B2C and B2B concerns. Bari’s career achievements are complemented with business and engineering educations at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he earned an MBA and the University of California at Berkeley where he received a BS degree in Engineering.

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Bilal Musharraf
Senior Associate, ePlanet Ventures

Bilal Musharraf is a Senior Associate at ePlanet Ventures focusing on investments in China, Pakistan, and India. He completed his B.S. in Actuarial Science from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1994. After graduation, he worked five years as an actuarial analyst for AIB in Boston, pricing and reserving automobile insurance (1994-1999). In 2000 he joined Watson Wyatt Worldwide (NYSE: WW) in Boston as an actuarial consultant, providing liability valuation analysis of employee benefit plans (Medical, Pension, Options) to the Fortune 1000 companies. He is a 2007 dual degree MBA/MA(Education) candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford University School of Education.

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Bill Reichert
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, and cFares. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

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Dilawar Syed
Head of Platform Business Group, Yahoo!

Dilawar is head of business strategy, planning and operations for Yahoo! Platform & Infrastructure and Yahoo! Advanced Products Divisions. In this capacity, Dilawar is responsible for three key business functions: planning Yahoo!'s portfolio of investments in next generation platforms, tools and infrastructure; overseeing business operations to support platform growth and adoption worldwide; and managing market development initiatives to extend Yahoo! assets and services off-Network to the developer communities, partners and publishers. Yahoo! platforms power properties and services across the Yahoo! Network including Social Media, Community, Search and Marketplace, Membership, Communication, Media and Video.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Dilawar spent several years in enterprise software in a variety of product management and marketing roles. At SAP, Dilawar managed product marketing strategy for Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In this capacity, Dilawar repositioned SAP's CRM solution suite, and led a company-wide initiative to develop long-term vision and product roadmap for the CRM business. At Siebel Systems, Dilawar took various products to market for the Communications, Media and Energy business unit. Most notably, Dilawar was responsible for launching Siebel's first middleware platform, which he helped grow in revenue to more than $100MM.

Earlier in his career, Dilawar spent over five years in management consulting, holding positions with Deloitte & Touché and Ernst & Young in the firms' Financial Services, Communications and High-tech industry practices. Dilawar holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Dilawar is an OPEN Charter Member and has been involved with OPEN's operations since 2002. Dilawar has served on the OPEN Executive Committee since 2004.

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Dr. Zakia Rahman
Clinical Instructor of Dermatology

Stanford University and Medical Director, The Fraxel Clinic Zakia Rahman is a board certified dermatologist practicing in California. She completed her internship at Yale University, followed by a dermatology residency at Columbia University, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. During her residency, she won first place in the Conrad Stritzler Competition for her research in the treatment of pseudofolliculitis barbae with extended pulse width diode laser. In addition to over 30 publications and book chapters, Dr. Rahman has also been awarded various grants for her research endeavors from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Women’s Dermatologic Society. Dr. Rahman lectures nationally and internationally on laser surgery with an emphasis on fractional laser science and ethnic skin.

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Faraz Hoodbhoy
CEO, Pixsense

Prior to co-founding PixSense, Faraz most recently served as Vice President of Business Development at NextBrick Solutions, Ltd., and was responsible for its Enterprise Search practice. Prior to that as Director Technical Sales at Clickmarks, Inc., Faraz developed key relationships around Clickmarks´ mobile integration platform with carriers in North and South America. As Director Global Solutions at Unisys Corporation, he created and implemented technology strategy for Unisys´ mobile and wireless field-force solutions offerings. At Cap-Gemini Ernst and Young, Faraz was part of the Center for Business Innovation where his research focus was on corporate performance measurement. Faraz started his career at Microsoft on the team responsible for building the XML 1.0 standard. He is co-author of the book, "Applied XML - A Toolkit for Programmers" and holds a BS in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer.

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Faruq Ahmed
Founding Partner, Palo Alto Capital

Faruq Ahmad is founding partner of Palo Alto Capital Advisors, a silicon-valley based firm which provides advisory services to companies and venture capital firms. He has over the years been founder of a venture-backed software company, as well as a venture capitalist, and also an institutional investor in venture funds.

Prior to Palo Alto Capital, Mr. Ahmad was Vice President at C.M. Capital (the Cha Group), a silicon-valley based investment firm with strong China links and a broad venture capital investment program of 35 years. His investment portfolios at the Cha Group have included both company investments as well as fund investments.

Mr. Ahmad previously founded PenWare Inc, raised venture capital, and was part of the executive team that took the company public as Mobinetix Inc. He has earlier held management, marketing and product development positions at Intel, Sprint, and AT&T.

Mr. Ahmad has a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. degree in Computer Systems from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.

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Fawad Zakariya
Director, SAP Corporate Strategy Management Group

Fawad is currently a Director in SAP’s Corporate Strategy Management group where he is part of the M&A strategy team. Prior to joining SAP, he was a Principal at Advent International, a global private equity and venture capital firm in Boston. At Advent he focused on transactions in the communications, software and electronics sectors. He led four of the six investments he participated in at Advent. Fawad was a director of West Ridge Networks, Seranoa Networks and Entigo Corp. and represented Advent on the board of Nauticus Networks (which was sold to Sun Microsystems). Before joining Advent, he was with Dillon Read Venture Capital in New York. While at Dillon Read he served on the board of two portfolio companies and participated in eight completed transactions. He has also worked as an investment banker at CS First Boston, where he executed debt and equity financings and M&A transactions for various clients. Fawad has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in their New York office. Fawad received a BA in economics from Haverford College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania 's Wharton School.

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Faysal Sohail
Managing Director, CMEA Ventures

Faysal Sohail joined CMEA Ventures in 2002 as a Managing Director. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Applied Wave Research, Catalytic, Inovys Corporation, Novx, Pyxis Technology, Symwave, and Telsima; and Faysal previously served on the board of Alien Technology. Mr. Sohail brings with him more than a decade of senior executive experience in engineering, marketing and business development. He was CEO of Cadabra Design Automation and managed its acquisition by Numerical Technologies (NMTC) where he served as Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Prior to Numerical Technologies, Faysal was Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Synopsys Inc. (SNPS). In 1990, he co-founded Silicon Architects, which was acquired by Synopsys in 1995. Earlier in his career, Faysal spent several years in IC design engineering and marketing positions with Actel Corporation (ACTL) and LSI Logic Corporation (LSI). Mr. Sohail holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where he also served on the College of Engineering Advisory Board (CEAB), and is Chairman of the Board of the San Jose Education Foundation.

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Hasan Rizvi
Vice President, Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation

As vice president of Identity Management and Security Products at Oracle, Hasan Rizvi is responsible for the company's Identity Management and Security product development, product management and architecture. His area of responsibility includes Access and Identity Management, User Provisioning, Web services security, LDAP Directory and Audit and Compliance products. Previously Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Oracle Enterprise Manager responsible for the company's Data Center Automation products.

Prior to returning to Oracle in 2001, Mr. Rizvi was vice president of Engineering for Corio, Inc. where he led the development of key technologies to enable efficient delivery of software as a service. Prior to that, Mr. Rizvi served as director of OLTP technologies for Oracle, where he was instrumental in development of transaction processing, messaging and queuing and high-end scalability technologies for Oracle Database products.

Mr. Rizvi has a M.S. in computer science from Rutgers University and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University. He also holds eight patents in the database management area.

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Imran Sayeed
Vice President, Financial Services, Keane Corporation

Syeed leads Keane Corporation's financial service thought leadership. He became a part of the Keane team through its acquisition of netNumina, a technology strategy and architecture services firm, which he founded. He has over 15 years experience in software and information technology services for financial institutions, holds a patent on secure financial transactions that he jointly developed with Citigroup, and is a visiting faculty member at one of the world's leading business schools, MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to netNumina, Sayeed founded Open Environment, a middleware product focused on financial services.

Sayeed received his B.S. in Engineering from Brown University and did post-graduate work at Harvard in business, marketing and product development.

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Kamal Ahmed
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Kamal is an investment banker in the technology practice of Morgan Stanley, based in Menlo Park. As an advisor to leading technology companies worldwide, he has led a wide variety of financing transactions and has executed numerous mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Kamal was a Vice President in the investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. He began his banking career in New York at Credit Suisse First Boston. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University and his M.B.A. from Cornell University. He is married with two children and lives in Los Altos, California.

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Kamal Ahmed
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Kamal is an investment banker in the technology practice of Morgan Stanley, based in Menlo Park. As an advisor to leading technology companies worldwide, he has led a wide variety of financing transactions and has executed numerous mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Kamal was a Vice President in the investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. He began his banking career in New York at Credit Suisse First Boston. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University and his M.B.A. from Cornell University. He is married with two children and lives in Los Altos, California.

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Khalid Saiuddin
CEO, Saaf Water

Khalid received his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and has recently completed his MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management. Of Pakistani heritage, he started his first company, PilotFish, in 1999; he raised $5 million in venture capital, and sold the company to the Volvo group in 2004.

Khalid has also worked as an independent consultant for a number of venture-backed companies including Skype, in business development and operations, and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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Mansoor Khan
CEO, DiagnosisOne

Dr. Mansoor Khan is the CEO of DiagnosisOne and has over 15 years of technical information technology and management experience in multiple industries. He is also a founder of Keycommerce Inc. Dr. Khan earned his Ph.D. from MIT and his B.S. and M.S. from Auburn University.

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Monis Rahman
Chairman & CEO, Naseeb Networks

Monis Rahman is the Chairman and CEO of Naseeb Networks, Inc., a Silicon Valley new media company with offshore development offices in Lahore and Amman.

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 Architecture. 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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Mubashir Hameed
SVP & CIO, Fiserv Output Solutions

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Mubasher Rana, MD, FACP
Chief of Nephrology, Diablo Permanente Medical Group

Dr. Mubasher Rana is Chief of Nephrology at the Diablo Permanente Medical Group, and has been a practicing physician with Kaiser Permanente since 1990. Dr. Rana is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Nephrology, and a Member of the National Kidney Foundation's Medical Advisory Board.

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Naeem Zafar
Partner, Altair Ventures

Naeem is a serial entrepreneur and devoted to mentorship.  Naeem is based in Silicon Valley (California) and has worked at six startups.  He is currently a partner with Altair Ventures, a company that advises and invests in entrepreneurs and startups. His last assignment was the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology.  Until December 2004 Naeem was the president and CEO of Silicon Design Systems, an Israeli ASIC design and EDA software company. Prior to SDS, he was president and CEO of Veridicom, Inc., a Lucent/Bell Labs spin-off specializing in silicon fingerprint sensors and authentication software. Previously, Naeem spent 11 years at Quickturn Design Systems, serving as vice president of technology strategy and later as the VP of worldwide marketing. Naeem began his career at Honeywell Research Labs in Minneapolis, Minn. as a VLSI design engineer and research scientist, and is the founder of two EDA companies. 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 has been a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and high-tech startups.  He has lectured or co-taught at UCLA, UC Berkeley, ISEMI (Israel), 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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Naseem Amin
Senior Vice President, Business Development, Biogen Idec

Dr. Naseem Amin joined Biogen Idec in 2005 from Genzyme Corporation, where he developed a successful track record of identifying and completing partnerships and acquisitions. He most recently served as Head of International Commercial Development. In this position, he had broad responsibility for guiding business development activities in international markets. Dr. Amin also served as Genzyme's Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Clinical Research. Before joining Genzyme in 1999, Dr. Amin was employed with Baxter Healthcare for seven years where he served as Director of Product Planning and Analysis and in various product management positions.

Dr. Amin has a B.Sc. in biochemistry and an M.D. from Royal Free and University College Medical School at the University of London. He holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Dr Amin undertook research in lipid metabolism as a Medical Research Council Fellow at the University of London and Columbia University.

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Noor Menai
CEO & President, Charles Schwab Bank

Noor Menai is chief executive officer and president of Charles Schwab Bank and has more than 16 years of experience in the banking industry.

Before joining Charles Schwab Bank in November 2006, Menai was based in London as managing director of the emerging markets segment for Citigroup’s corporate and investment bank. He was responsible for product management, sales and marketing for the small business segment in 18 countries. Previously, Menai held leadership positions in Citigroup’s global marketing and global product management groups.

Prior to joining Citigroup in 1997, Menai held senior positions with Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase.

Menai received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and his Masters in Business Administration in finance, computers and information systems from the University of Rochester. He also completed studies in strategic marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.

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Rehan Jalali
President, The Supplement Research Foundation

Rehan Jalali is President of the Supplement Research Foundation (TSRF). He is a nationally recognized Certified Sports Nutritionist (C.S.N.) who has developed over 100 cutting edge products for the dietary supplement industry. His clients include Oscar® winning actors, Emmy® award winning TV stars, and Grammy® winning musicians. He has developed cutting edge customized nutrition and supplementation programs for actors getting ready for movie roles, musicians preparing for videos, and celebrities peaking for appearances including award shows. He has over 250 nationally and internationally published articles on nutrition and supplementation. Rehan has worked with many Olympic and professional athletes including Gold medalists. Long considered an authority on sports nutrition, Rehan is the author of The Six Pack Diet Plan, The Sports Supplement Buyers Guide, The Ultimate Performance Guide to Fitness Success and co-author of The Bodybuilding Supplement Guide.

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Saad Khan
Partner, CMEA Ventures

Saad joined CMEA Ventures in February 2007 as a Partner and is focusing on the firm's software investments. Prior to joining CMEA, Saad was a Venture Partner and lead the advisory services group at Garage Technology Ventures (GTV), a seed stage venture fund. During his career at Garage, Saad focused on emerging technology investments in the software and digital media space, working closely with many companies including TripleHop (acquired by ORCL), cFares, and Savage Beast (Pandora). Before GTV, Saad worked for the IBM alphaWorks group in Cupertino, CA, focusing on commercializing IBM R&D. Saad also worked for the Strategic Planning and Business Development Groups at the Walt Disney Company, helping to develop the strategic and operating plans for ABC, ESPN and Disney's e-businesses. Saad received a B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems and an A.B in Economics with Honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University. He currently serves on the advisory board for several start-ups, including Kalat Software, Lending Club, and is a founding member of the FilmAngels.

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Saeed Amidi
Founding General Partner, Amidzad Ventures

Saeed has been a technology investor since 1996 and co-founded Amidzad with Pejman and Rahim in 2000. He is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 23 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies.
He has been closely involved with more than twenty new emerging growth companies, of which 2 became public companies (PayPal (acquired by eBay) and Preview Systems). His investments include DoveBid, Crosslayer Networks, Paypal, Affinity Engines, Gabbly, Sigma Quest.

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Salman Akhtar
CEO, Techlogix

Mr. Salman Akhtar helped start Techlogix and has been leading its international presence. His focus is on business development and the technology end of consulting. He holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Sana Khan
CEO, TrueMRI

Dr. Khan is the Chairman and Founder of TrueMRI Medical Group. TrueMRI is a professional radiology group specializing in advanced interpretation of imaging studies performed using the Fonar Upright Multi-Positional MRI. TrueMRI currently owns and operates 8 imaging centers.  Dr. Khan is also the Chairman and Founder of True Impairment Evaluation Medical Group. Dr. Khan holds degrees from the University of California Irvine, and UCLA School of Medicine.

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Shahid Khan
Partner, Interactive Broadband Consulting Group, LLC

Shahid Khan is a Partner at Interactive Broadband Consulting Group (IBB), LLC, a consulting firm advising top management in the broadband-related sectors of cable, mobile, technology and digital media. Prior to joining IBB, Shahid was a Managing Director at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting) in the Media & Entertainment Industry Practice. Previously, Shahid was a Client Services Partner at IBM Global Services (IGS), where he led the activities of the various arms of IGS focusing on East Coast based Publishing and Entertainment clients. Over the course of his career, Shahid has served leading Media firms including Bertelsmann, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, Thomson, Viacom and the RIAA.

Shahid holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business and is a Fellow at U. Penn's Wharton School of Business. Shahid serves on the Board of two technology firms in the mobile and enterprise software space, and is the President of OPEN New York.

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Shazia Makhdumi
CEO, ColorfulStories

Shazia is currently co-founder and CEO of ColorfulStories, an early stage startup that allows people to quickly and easily create customized children’s books, including learning books, story books and memory books. Previously, she was a principal at Outlook Ventures, where she sourced, evaluated and negotiated early stage venture deals, with a focus on consumer Internet. Prior to that, Shazia established a consulting practice helping early stage startups formulate product strategy, execute on marketing plans and negotiate partnerships.

Shazia’s experience includes business development and marketing roles at Netscape/AOL and iPlanet (a Sun-Netscape alliance) where she was in charge of recommending emerging Internet companies for acquisitions/partnerships, and led product marketing efforts for Netscape's e-Commerce solutions. Shazia started her career as a technology investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, making investment recommendations to the firm’s institutional and high net worth individual clients. She has also been a circuit design engineer at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where she completed her Master's thesis. Shazia holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from Stanford.

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Sophia Qureshi
Producer, Al-Jazeera English

Sophia Qureshi is a producer for Al-Jazeera English's broadcasting center in Washington D.C.  She worked for CNN  at the Washington DC bureau for a year and at CNN's New Delhi bureau for a summer before joining Al-Jazeera.  Her masters in "Communication, Culture, and Technology" from Georgetown University led to an interest in global media and and a desire to find alternative ways of telling stories.  Sophia has independently produced a few short documentaries/news pieces on a range of topics-- Child Camel Jockeys in Pakistan, Red light district in Lahore, Contact Dance in post 9/11 Washington, and Darfur Peace rallies in D.C. 

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Syed Babar Ali
Founder, LUMS, Pakistan; former CEO, Packages Ltd.

As an entrepreneur and industrialist, Syed Babar Ali envisioned and set up Packages Limited (Pakistan’s largest paper & board mill), Milkpak Limited – now Nestle Milkpak Limited - (one of the largest food processing companies in Pakistan especially liquid milk in Tetra Pak containers); Tetra Pak Pakistan Limited, International General Insurance Company of Pakistan Limited, Tri-Pack Films Limited, First International Investment Bank and Systems Private Limited. He is Chairman of Aventis Pakistan Limited, Bayer CropScience Pakistan Limited, Siemens Pakistan Engineering Company Limited, Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited and Director of Unilever Pakistan Limited and Mitchell’s Fruit Farms Limited. He believes in the joint venture philosophy and most of his businesses are joint ventures with major multinationals.

As an educationist, he envisioned and established Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 1985 of which he is the first Pro-Chancellor. LUMS is Pakistan’s premier management education institution. He also founded Ali Institute of Education for training of primary and secondary school teachers.

He promoted the cause of the World Wide Fund for Nature where he served in various capacities, both in Pakistan and internationally, from 1972 to 1996. He was International President of WWF from 1996 to 1999 succeeding HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. He is now Vice President Emeritus, WWF International.

He served as Pakistan’s Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs & Planning in 1993. He received honors and awards from the Government of Sweden, the Netherlands, an OBE from Britain (1997), and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Laws from McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997).

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Tom Byers
Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University where he focuses on technology entrepreneurship education. He is founder and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Educators Corner website of teaching resources, and a set of global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences. Tom is also a faculty director of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program for technology executives. Tom is co-author of a popular textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise" published by McGraw-Hill. Tom also holds visiting professor appointments at the London Business School and University College London.

Tom currently serves on the governing boards of Reactivity, MyThings, and Flywheel Ventures. In addition, he serves on advisory councils of the American Society for Engineering Education's Entrepreneurship Division, Harvard Business School's California Research Center, and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) for inner-city youth. Previously, Tom lectured at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Tom has a range of business experience including executive vice president of Symantec Corporation and the founding president of Slate Corporation. Tom started his professional career at Accenture.

Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also earned a PhD in Business Administration (Management Science) at UC Berkeley.

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Umair Khan
Venture Partner, The Entrepreneurs' Fund III

Umair co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a Silicon Valley based enterprise software company. As CEO of Clickmarks Umair grew the company through $27 million in venture funding from investors such as Vodafone, DFJ, and Mitsubishi, and successfully took the company to profitability. In July 2005, Clickmarks was acquired by Semotus Inc., a publicly traded US company and a leader in mobile software.

Umair is also founder and chairman of Verisium, a Silicon Valley based software testing tools company founded in 2004. Umair is also the founder of Folio3, a Pakistan-based services company that focuses on providing offshore operations incubation to startups and other small companies.

Prior to this, Umair was founder and chairman of Wordwalla Inc., a venture backed company providing multilingual software solutions. Wordwalla was acquired in 2001 by Morisawa Corporation, a public company in Japan. He is also co-founder of Chowk, a niche portal focusing on South Asia. Umair started his career as part of the Itanium microprocessor group at Intel Corporation.

Umair has over 20 industry patents including four from his work at Intel and one for his graduate research at MIT. He has spoken on entrepreneurship at some of the country's top business schools, including MIT and Harvard, and has been profiled in publications such as USA Today, New York Times, and The Entrepreneur. Umair received a BS in Mathematics (1992) and an MS in Computer Engineering (1995), both from MIT.

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Waheed Qureshi
Chairman & CTO, Zenprise

Dr. Waheed Qureshi is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Zenprise Inc a technology company funded by premier silicon valley venture capital firms of Mayfield Fund and Bay partners. Prior to Zenprise, Waheed founded Zambeel, a venture funded company that was focused on delivering highly scalable network attached storage sub-systems for the distributed Internet. Waheed started his career at Excelon Corporation where he focused on ObjectStore, the industry-leading object-oriented database management system in several technology leadership positions. An avid researcher, his co-authored publications have been published in ACM SIGMOD and VLDB and he is the holder of several awarded and pending US patents.

His honorary and professional memberships include IEEE, ACM, Tau Beta Pai and Eta Kappa Nu.

Dr. Qureshi's current technical expertise include Autonomic computing, Information grids, File/data management and Storage sub-systems. A serial entrepreneur, Dr. Qureshi is a charter member of OPEN and TIE and is an advisor to several early stage companies. Waheed holds a Ph.D in computer sciences from University of Southern California (USC).

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Yusuf Hussain
MD, Pakistan Software Export Board

Yousuf Hussain is Managing Director of Pakistan Software Export Board. Previously Yousuf was CEO of Crestsoft USA where he oversaw the growth of Pakistan's biggest IT services company at the time.

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Zia Yusuf
EVP, SAP Corporation

Executive Vice President, Office of the CEO, SAP AG. Previously Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of SAPMarkets, Inc., the B2B exchange company of SAP AG, and Managing Director, SAPMarkets Asia Pacific. Formerly with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and the World Bank.

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