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With over 25 years of international experience, with firms like MSCI, Tesco, Met Police London, British Gas and entrepreneurial stints in EdTech, AI and Data Analytics Asif is a highly accomplished CTO/CEO and Technology Director, expert in providing innovative transformation solutions for multinational organisations within the Utilities, Government, Technology, Retail, Education and Financial sectors.

As the Chief Technology Officer at GoBazzar.com, Asif is focused on driving operations as well as delivering the business development and growth strategy, working with all professionals across both an industry and corporate level. Skilled in orchestrating continuous improvement, leading change management, and driving revenue and market share growth. Asif has proven his ability in building efficient, globally dispersed teams that optimise client support and complete complex, IT projects.

With the combination of various Systems Engineering and Operational roles, early on in his career Asif firmly established a solid grounding of the technical knowledge needed to effectively manage complex transformation projects.

As Asif’s career developed, he moved into systems infrastructure and global service delivery roles, where he began to build a clear understanding of how to resolve project conflicts and expedite cross-functional dependencies as well as manage relationships with multiple stakeholders. During his tenure with MSCI as VP Global Head of Managed Services he directed transition of a support team from ad hoc to full-service operation maximising synergy, implementing best practices, and introducing standardized operating principles.

Today, Asif has both the passion and expertise to deliver innovative technology, training and consultancy across operations, strategy, business transformation, cloud services and emerging technologies, which in 2016 was further demonstrated as CEO of myLearningKey Training Institute, helping clients in their digital transformation, implementing AI, Data and Cloud solutions, and educating business professionals.

Having built a market leading reputation, Asif has also been asked to work with Reuters and contribute to their internal innovation university, a global initiative to train and educate staff on blockchain, big data and AI, designing an ongoing annual programme to be delivered to both technical and nontechnical staff, engendering staff to hold intelligent conversations with their clients, thereby maintaining their position as a market leader.

In 2020 he was appointed as CTO for GoBazzar.com in UAE, an online digital platform allowing consumers to compare products from online retailers, leading and manging the company’s technology development and infrastructure.

The culmination of Asif’s experience to date means he can manage operations on a global scale, deliver strategy for business development and facilitate continuous achievement of growth targets that both meet and exceed expectations whilst simultaneously engender an acute understanding of client goals and how to achieve them.