Professional

Imran Anwar

Visionary Thought Leader; TV/Radio World Affairs; Global Strategy; Cloud & Enterprise IT, Product & Marketing Management



Professional Bio

Imran is a news/media personality & global affairs expert appearing on the world's best known TV & radio networks; visionary thought leader at leading global conferences; a respected C-level management consulting professional & enterprise architect. As an advisor to high tech startups & potential angel investor Imran helps entrepreneurs drive innovation in every field.

He takes complex political/business/technology/social problems and quickly creates and delivers simple & effective solutions. As founder of Internet/Email industry in Pakistan, he is among early pioneers of the net. He established the first ISP, IMRAN.PK & co-founded .PK ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain Pakistan). He also launched the credit card industry there with MasterCard.

He is an experienced serial "parallel entrepreneur"?; innovator; global strategy, management, marketing & operations execution leader equally well known for thought leadership in cloud computing, location-aware commerce, micro-payments and the big data power of new/social media. His experience in corporate innovation leverages technology as a strategic differentiator and competitive advantage.

A popular keynote speaker at events in USA, Europe and Asia, he founded EvertTrac.US, XASH.net (micropayments) & iCloud.PK (cloud-computing & crowd-sourcing).

He launched CA's network management products and helped build professional services, leading a global $78 million project at AXA. He led product management & marketing for all vertical solutions at VCE for the Vblock cloud computing platform, and Microsoft’s Enterprise Strategy engagements at DoD, GE, MetLife and others.

A published writer & journalist, radio & TV commentator & talk show guest on CNN, Fox, News12, WWRL, ETV & anchor/host on global GEO, etc. on global affairs, business, IT & more, Imran helps clients create new opportunities, He is called an "idea-generation machine"?.

His 1980 motto "Change The World; Bit By Bit, Byte By Byte!" is often quoted by others.