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Ajaz Khowaj Quoram Ahmed

British Businessman

Ajaz Khowaj Quoram Ahmed, MBE (born 1973) is a British entrepreneur.

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He is best known as the founder and CEO of London-based new media company AKQA.

Early life

Ahmed was born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire[2] in 1973[9] to parents from Punjab, India.[9] He grew up in Maidenhead, where his father, Khowaj Ahmed, worked at a Beechams factory, and his mother, Sughran Ahmed, worked at a hospital launderette.[8][9]

While in school, Ahmed was a paperboy and delivered newspapers to the UK headquarters of what was then the world's third-largest software company, Ashton-Tate.

He wrote to the company requesting a job, and at 15, received an offer to work there during school holidays.[9] From 1989 to 1991, Ahmed served in the marketing department and eventually as a programmer.[10] He used the company's dBASE software to author an improved financial system for purchase orde Ajaz Ahmed retirement marks the end of an era | Campaign US MAXOT