Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Qazilbash’s over 30-year professional career spans multiple NASDAQ-listed US Corporations, private sector startups in GCC, FDI-funded Pakistan Corporations, international donor-sponsored development projects, and the public sector. His unique skill is to manage the nexus of technology induction and/or change management and marketing for revenue or economic growth and impact.

He is the author of the National Digital and Innovation in education strategy of the Federal Government. Zulfiqar also helped organize the EdTech industry of Pakistan under the ILM Association. He is the developer and former project director for the National Institute of Excellence in Teacher Education, set up by the federal government, to develop the quality of teaching in Pakistan.

In the corporate sector, Mr. Qazilbash’s recent focus has been change management, digital transformation, and the development of new markets. In the public sector, he has worked on sector strategy including industry creation, capacity, ecosystem, and market development for multiple sectors, ranging from IT/ITeS, science and technology to education, healthcare, and agriculture. Currently, he is also the President of iVivity Consulting, an international consultancy specializing in research, strategy, technology, innovation, transformation, project implementation, and business development.

Zulfiqar is a computer engineering graduate of the University of Texas of Austin. He is certified by Wharton for Artificial Intelligence in Business specialization and Google for digital marketing and e-commerce. He has helped raise over $100 million in startup investment and contributed to over 50 patents.