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About the Author

Mashhood Alam is a senior innovation leader who
has been driving innovation with Silicon Valley’s
top companies and start-ups for over two decades.
Mashhood leverages his technology background,
deep business expertise and design-thinking skills to
use technology to solve complex problems and make
life easier for people.

Mashhood has built products as a software devel-
oper, helped launch solutions to market as a product
manager, driven strategy for half-billion-dollar prod-
uct line, spearheaded innovation-led sales programs, driven co-innovation
projects with customers in various industries, led digital transformation
initiatives for world’s top enterprises, advised numerous start-ups and con-
verted several ideas into businesses during the course of his career.
Mashhood has been granted six US patents and won two prestigious
design awards, including the Red Dot Award for innovative design concept
for a citizen-centric information portal. Mashhood has been a guest speaker
at several industry events as well as mentored numerous start-ups in many
Silicon Valley boot camps. He regularly speaks to C-level audiences on inno-
vation and digital transformation. He has also been a guest lecturer at vari-
ous business and entrepreneurial schools, including University of California,
Berkeley.
Mashhood holds a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering
from NED University of Engineering and Technology, a master’s in systems
sciences from Louisiana State University and a master’s in business admin-
istration from Santa Clara University. He can be contacted at http://www.
MashhoodAlam.com.

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