PRODUCT | VENTURE | ADVISORY

🍴Shehzad Najib
(she-h-zaad) شهزاد 👋🏼

TL;DR: Shehzad's value proposition is his depth in digital transformation experience in
education, human performance management and financial services through leveraging technology to build scalable products and strategies to inform growth.Shehzad is currently focused on the triumvirate of product, venture and advisoryProduct:🕴️Directing and leading interesting assignments focused on product; strategy, management and growth.
Venture:🔮 Investing in underrepresented founders leveraging technology to transform the way we live, learn and work
Advisory:🎙️ Consulting with organisations and individuals on what not to do leveraging operator and founder experienceShehzad founded Kinteract 📲 – a successful social learning and workflow automation platform in the K-12 space but was unable to realise his vision of building a portable learning record from early years into employment. 👓📀 Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was involved in two large-scale corporate digital transformations @Barclays and @Pearson where he led strategy and built product teams implementing Agile and DevOps at scale. ⚖️🏫 He is also the youngest founder of a school, at the age of 21, when he established a liberal arts inspired secondary school in Oxfordshire, England and went on to manage a portfolio of education assets in direct delivery. 💼🎧 He is an advisor to a number of startups and scale ups and is interested in the interplay of digital immersion and strong offline communities. He is open to NED, advisory and mentoring roles to founders, and in particular those from underrepresented communities. 🚀🎓 Shehzad graduated with first class honours from the University of Warwick and is an alumni of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund Accelerator. He is frequently asked to speak and has been featured in TechCrunch, Evening Standard, The Guardian, Forbes, CNN Arabia, Zawya, Arabian Business, Khaleej Times, The National and Education Technology. 🗞️
🫖 Born and raised in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. Nowadays he can usually be found on the Bosphorus in Istanbul 🌉, a football field in Oxford ⚽️ or in the desert in Dubai. 🏝️.