At Disrupt, Imran serves as Group Advisor across venture building and innovation, applying over two decades of operator and academic experience to the portfolio.
He has been faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management for over 20 years, teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Computerworld named him a Premier 100 IT Leader in 2013. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.
Before MIT, he served as CTO at NTT Data, the 6th largest technology consulting company globally with $16B in revenue. He co-founded Open Environment, which went public in 1995, and NetNumina, an Inc 500 fastest growing business sold to Keane in 2005. He holds a patent on Internet security technology developed with Citibank.
He serves on the Industry Advisory Board of HERE Technologies and the Board of Directors of Engro Corp. He founded Teach the World Foundation and served as founding global President of OPEN, an entrepreneurship network spanning 5,000+ executives across 14 cities.
His discipline is entrepreneurship and venture building. His focus is turning institutional knowledge into operator decisions.
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