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I am a strategic leader in talent development, recruitment, and operational management, focused on building high-performing teams and driving sustainable growth. I’ve led the creation and optimization of recruitment and onboarding processes that attract top technical talent, enhance retention, and support impressive growth trajectories for organizations. My experience includes aligning talent acquisition with long-term business objectives, boosting both operational efficiency and scalability. Additionally, I founded and managed a successful event production business, overseeing large-scale private events and VIP client relations, especially in high-profile settings. This diverse background has refined my approach to leadership, emphasizing team building, operational excellence, and strategic success. I’m a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with 25 years of experience building and scaling disruptive businesses that deliver outsized value for clients, stakeholders, and shareholders. From bootstrapped startups to rapid-growth ventures and a public company, I’ve led with a hands-on approach, driving innovation across industries like travel, real estate, software, and tax advisory.
I founded Ski West, Inc., an online travel startup, and spearheaded its digital strategy, product development, and marketing—culminating in a successful exit to Overstock.com. I also launched NeighborCity, a real estate platform that revolutionized transparency in Realtor performance. Today, I lead Strike Tax Advisory, an Inc. 500 R&D tax credit consultancy I founded in 2019. Strike is disrupting the R&D tax credit space with a client-centric model that helps businesses reinvest in innovation and fuel growth.
What I Bring to the Table: Expertise in software development, digital strategy, UX optimization, go-to-market execution, and M&A—backed by a track record of turnarounds, restructurings, and profitable exits. I thrive at the intersection of technology and impact.
Let’s connect to explore how I can help you accelerate growth, solve complex challenges, and seize new opportunities. 
Believer in Asynchronous work. Experienced working on startups in different locations around the world in different sectors. A self taught developer (front-end, Javascript, Three.js, webgl, LAMP Stack, React, Node.js Blockchain and absolutely anything else I need to learn) and marketing consultant, SEO, science Editor, Business Developer, Project Management using agile in software and non-software projects and much more. Trained on design thinking skills from the alumni of Stanford d.school. Chosen as one of the under 30 Top Leaders of Tomorrow by GapSummit UK.
Co-founder at bootstrapped and steadily growing EDITRAC and Labcritics, Zraya (currently laser focused on bringing the power of customization to the masses), and Volubilis, previously involved on Journal of Errology (first journal of negative results), Innovators4Hire (Early HackerRank or MindSumo), Letslunch, NeighborCity, Karmasnap (Unself), Genpact (Empower Research) and a few more incredible startups from different fields, currently focusing all my efforts towards EDITRAC. A scientist, a reformer, a traveler, a hands-on approach guy and an environmentalist at heart whose passion is to constantly learn, evolve and apply and move on to bigger and impossible problems.
Constantly keeps dreaming about removing research bottlenecks and creating the perfect solution of Unblocking Research. Consulting multiple DAO's and working on an experimental Financial Metaverse currently in stealth mode.
If you want to to talk: https://cal.com/mahboob/secret 
