Umair Aziz is the Co-founder and CTO of PGI. Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Umair moved to the United States in 1996 to attend the College of Wooster where he graduated with B.A. in Computer Science and minors in Mathematics and Business Economics. A seasoned software engineer, Umair has been writing code since 1992 and possesses an incisive understanding and a clear vision for enabling technologies across different verticals. He specializes in the design and architecture of web, mobile and distributed desktop applications and has over 10 years of experience in custom application development. Umair has served as the CTO and Director of Creative Chaos, a software outsourcing and consulting firm in Pakistan that provides technology solutions to companies globally. Umair has also served as a Director of the Pak-USA and Pak-Canada Business Councils at the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
With a healthy disregard for the impossible; he also holds sway over the non-geek but all-vital realms of people, strategy and management, which fuels his passion for entrepreneurship. His enthusiasm to take risks, prudence and vision, backed by conviction led him to form an instant connection and alliance with Hameed Khan. Thus, face2face was born.
Umair thoroughly enjoys whatever he does… through his eyes he even sees the world written in code. In his leisure time, he enjoys making music, watching movies and is in the process of making a geek out of his wife.
Abdul Aleem is a Certified Project Management Professional who has overall 12 years experience working with world-class IT firms in Austrailia, UAE and Pakistan. His areas of work have been Project Management, software quality assurance and business analysis. His multicultural experience adds much flair to product development aimed to cater to an international target market in multiple geographies.
Before PGI, Aleem held the Project Manager position for Talented Earth Organization, overseeing end-to-end delivery of multiple IT projects serving clients in Scandinavian region. He has also been senior project manager at Avanza Solutions, where his focus had been the IT products developed for the banking sector in Asia and Middle East. He holds an MBA from University of Canberra, Australia.