Ali Sohani

Ali Sohani is a serial technopreneur and Founding Director of the Canada-based technology conglomerate, Optimizia (which has brands/ subsidies like VisualyticsAI, Pagematic, QuantNext, MagicWhisper, and Gamefrog Studios). He has previously served as CTO of Cubix Inc., a technology company in Washington D.C. With over two decades of experience in leadership roles, he has taught leadership in universities and mentored startups. He holds an M.Phil. degree in HRM with a specialization in leadership and is a published researcher, author, and public speaker in the domains of Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Emerging Technologies.

As an established serial technopreneur and an angel investor, he holds an advisor onboard position in around half-a-dozen tech companies. With an experience of more than two decades and an array of successful products as well as published papers under his belt, he's someone who's mastered the art of building great teams, smarter applications, and thriving businesses on top of them.

As a renowned speaker, author, and strategic adviser on Radical Leadership for Startups, Artificial Intelligence, and Emerging Technologies like Conversational Apps, Predictive Analytics, Immersive Reality, Interactive Mobile Games, and Blockchain -- he helps startups as well as enterprises in figuring the way tech can get businesses to grow, expand, sustain - solving problems inventively.

* Accomplishments

- Built more than 25 Technology Products in his career span of about 2 decades in the industry.

- Helped more than 3 dozen startups as an Adviser/ Technology and Product Development Expert.

- Led around 7 major Digital Transformation Initiatives for the Biggest National Level conglomerates to Fortune 500 firms.

- Published Author with 20+ Research Papers and a co-author in an Internationally recognized book.

- As a CTO and Executive Director of one of the Technology Services Firms led the company to a global recognition level, growing it from 25 people to 100+ people, establishing its solid presence in 3 countries: USA, UAE, and Pakistan.

- As a Technology-Guru and Thought-Leader trained 100+ mentees in the application of Data-Science and Emerging Technologies to solve business problems (critical uses-cases) in an innovative way.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisohani

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisohani