Equal parts entrepreneur, leader, and product architect, Imtiyaz has an unwavering passion for building and nurturing high-growth products and teams. As CEO at Movoto, he transformed the business from one that was unprofitable, to one of the fastest-growing top-five residential search sites. Since the acquisition of Movoto by OJO Labs in June 2020, Imtiyaz has continued to focus on accelerating consumer acquisition of Movoto products in the U.S., as well as the expansion into the Canadian market with OJO.ca. In October of 2021, he took over responsibilities for revenue generation as Chief Revenue Officer at OJO.
Imtiyaz became CEO at Movoto in January 2017, when it was under Recruit Holdings of Japan. One year later, he was part of the management buyout that relaunched Movoto as an independent startup company. Prior to becoming CEO at Movoto, Imtiyaz served as Vice President of Engineering where he led the company’s global engineering and R&D. In his previous capacity, as Head of API and Innovation, and then Global R&D for Philips, Imtiyaz focused on lean startup principles and agile development methodology to deliver new innovations to the company. He honed his skills in entrepreneurship when he founded and served as CEO at a Java technology company, growing it to more than 100 clients in less than two years and achieving profitability, which led to a successful company acquisition.
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