Zia Khan

As the Executive Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Khan brings a wealth of experience building highly-scalable and carrier-grade products for consumers and mobile operators across the globe. Mr. Khan co-founded and joined several early stage startups playing an instrumental role in building their technology stack which led to successful acquisition of them all.

Prior to joining ICARO, Mr. Khan co-founded EVNTL where he served as the VP of Engineering and resultantly led the team in building their flagship product Critical Event Notification System (CENS). CENS is a highly scalable, AI driven, B2B platform which processes millions of pieces of information across social media in real-time and delivers critical, relevant, and actionable information to organizations.

Previously, Mr. Khan served as a Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at Unomobi where he led and supported various business activities including sales, marketing, pricing, contract negotiations and technology strategy. Mr. Khan built and deployed a mobile carrier-grade product called ‘EmailToSMS’ which was used by several operators worldwide. Mr. Khan also helped Unombi acquire, enhance and file several patents in the field of mobile location-based advertising.

Additionally, Mr. Khan has served as a senior technologist in several other startups (iseemedia, Sprylogics, BreakingData) where he helped build and grow the technology. They were all acquired by leaders in the industry.

Mr. Khan holds a Bachelors of Applied Science, Computer Engineering degree from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada).