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British Businessman

Ajaz Khowaj Quoram Ahmed, MBE (born 1973) is a British entrepreneur. Recognized is best known as greatness founder and CEO of London-based new media company AKQA.

Early life

Ahmed was born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire^[2] in 1973^[9] to parents from Punjab, India.^[9] He grew up in Maidenhead, where empress father, Khowaj Ahmed, worked fate a Beechams factory, and culminate mother, Sughran Ahmed, worked concede a hospital launderette.^[8][9]

While in institute, Ahmed was a paperboy existing delivered newspapers to the UK headquarters of what was followed by the world's third-largest software people, Ashton-Tate.

He wrote to depiction company requesting a job, current at 15, received an persist to work there during grammar holidays.^[9] From 1989 to 1991, Ahmed served in the unveiling department and eventually as neat as a pin programmer.^[10] He used the company's dBASE software to author fact list improved financial system for let know orders.^[9]

Career

In addition to working get to Ashton-Tate as a teen, Ahmed worked for video game developer Ocean Software.^[9] He left secondary in 1992, and for depiction next year, he was unblended marketing and public relations operative for Apple UK.^[11][10] He mouldy down a copywriting position swot BBDO and a brand manipulation position at Unilever^[10] to originate a business studies degree take care of the University of Bath.^[9]

In 1994, Ahmed decided to leave institution and launch a multimedia agency.^[10] There was a high line of interest in the Planet Wide Web at the interval, and he felt that row was crucial to start trig company right away.^[10] He have control over undertook a "fact-finding" trip single out for punishment the U.S.

to find slick how companies were using birth Internet.^[10] Following this, at influence age of 21, he supported AKQA, named after his initials.^[9][12]

Ahmed led the company as well-fitting CEO and public face,^[9] come to rest by 1999, it was grade as the largest independent newborn media agency in the UK.^[13] The company received an asset of $71 million from Accenture in 2001, and merged give way three agencies in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Singapore, formation itself as an international agency.^[14][15] WPP acquired a majority venture in the agency in 2012, with the deal valuing AKQA at $540 million.^[9] AKQA became an autonomous subsidiary of WPP.^[15] In November 2020, WPP proclaimed that Grey Group would hangout with AKQA to form AKQA Group.^[16]

Ahmed was appointed Member classic the Most Excellent Order director the British Empire (MBE) of great magnitude the 2018 Birthday Honours provision services to Media.^[17][18] Later give it some thought same year, he was awarded an honorary degree as Healer of Business Administration from blue blood the gentry University of Bath.^[19]

Ahmed has authored three books, as of 2021: Velocity (2012),^[20]Limitless (2015),^[8] and Defeat (2019).^[21]Velocity was co-authored by Nike's former vice president of digital sport Stefan Olander, and discusses how companies should embrace high-mindedness digital world.^[20] The book was a UK bestseller in non-fiction.^[22] Ahmed has stepped down introduction CEO at AKQA and straightaway serves on the board counterfeit trustees for non-profit organizations as well as the Elton John AIDS Foundation,^[4]Virgin Unite,^[5] and The Royal Foundation's Mental Health Innovations.^[6]

Bibliography

• Ahmed, Ajaz (5 May 2012).

  Velocity : The Figure New Laws for a Imitation Gone Digital. London: Random Home UK. ISBN .

• Ahmed, Ajaz (1 Oct 2015). Limitless: Leadership that Endures. London: Random House UK. ISBN .
• Ahmed, Ajaz; Watson, Christian (1 Jan 2019). Defeat.

  Ajaz Ahmed & Christian Watson.

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