Mr. Jawaid Ekram

Mr. Jawaid Ekram is based in the Seattle area and has been involved with supporting OBAT’s projects for the forgotten camp residents. He is a cloud computing industry veteran and an entrepreneur, with over twenty-five years of experience in engineering and operations of large scale systems. Mr. Ekram is a co-founder of Uhuru Software and was a former General Manager at Microsoft where he was responsible for Global Foundations Services (Data Center) and Live Meeting Services (SaaS). Before Microsoft, he was CIO/VP of Services of Placeware which was acquired by Microsoft for $230 M. He served as Sr. VP of Visa International for 5 years and was responsible for global engineering and operations.

Mr. Ekram was also at United Airlines where he was instrumental in the development of Apollo, one of the largest global airline distribution systems. He is also serving on the Board of The Citizens Foundation USA and has served as a board member for Entrust Technology as well. Mr. Ekram holds an MS degree in Computer Science from IIT.

We are extremely fortunate to have a dynamic personality like him leading our advisory board-his experience and expertise will be invaluable in devising solutions for improving the lives of the camp residents.