This young man has earned many feathers on his hat in a very young age. 24; a Software Engineering graduate from the prestigious NUST - Islamabad, Pakistan, a serial entrepreneur, a humble philanthropist and a cutting edge designer; he has turned heads on an international spectrum. Currently, he is the CEO and founder of AClan aka AlooClan (a 4 years old services oriented startup based entirely on a student empowering model which ranked among the top startups of Pakistan in the past years), operates a philanthropy venture, YourHundred, mentors the entrepreneurs-to-be at various conferences and was the core team member of Pakistan’s pioneer Tech Incubator, Plan9. He was nominated as the “Top 25 under 25 of Pakistan for the year 2014” by an independent research conducted by a very prominent news entity, TechJuice. He has also served at the position of Vice President, External relations and Strategies in a British Startup, WA; and won the Best Innovation Award by National Academy of Young scientists, 5 years back. He was invited as an emerging youth tech leader, in Youth Technology Camp 2015, cohosted by, Pak US Alumni Network, US Embassy, and Global entrepreneurs Network (GEN). He is a mentor cum trainer for Herself, A women empowering initiative by Punjab information Technology board and for WomenX, yet another women empowering initiative backed by World Bank. In 2015 he was invited by the Government of Kerala, India in order to represent AlooClan and Pakistan because of his cross border initiatives. He represented Pakistani Young Leaders in South Asian Youth conference SAYC’15, which was held in Srilanka & was a part of Pakistani delegation to Startup Istanbul’16, held in Turkey. Recently, he also got appointed as the CCO of Asia Pacific Youth Organization; a Melbourne, Australia based Social enterprise & selected as the Community lead for Facebook Dev Circles: Lahore, among 12 global community leads. FbDevCircles is a pilot program from Facebook, commenced in 6 countries worldwide initially (including Pakistan).
Impact Fact: Over the past 3 years, AlooClan has provided its services to 100+ international & Local Brands, generated PKR 20 Million+ from a bootstrapped model & floated the same towards youth & women empowerment. Socially it has impacted the lives of 2000+ students & young professionals via trainings, monetary opportunities or professional exposure.
