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Aamir Hafeez Ibrahim has been the CEO of Jazz since 2016, Pakistan’s largest Telecom and Internet company with 60 million subscribers, and one of the country’s largest businesses. He is also a member of the Global Executive Committee of VEON (the ninth largest telecom operator in the world).

Prior to his current role, Aamir has held senior leadership positions in VEON, Telenor Group, Ford Motor Company, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Mobilink. His career spans 25 years, 7 countries, and in industries as diverse as telecommunications, automotive, and financial services. Aamir received his Bachelors in Business (Accounting) from The University of Texas at Austin. He also holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland and an AMP Diploma from the Harvard Business School.

PEN Silicon Valley is hosting a series of webinar to highlight candidate who have dedicated their time to serving communities they live in. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and learn what drives them to public service and how they aspire to make positive impact in the communities they serve.

Maimona helped develop and implement inclusive curriculum and helped craft anti-bullying policies. She advocated for state legislation and trained educators on fostering safer schools. Witnessing inequity as a special education teacher and experiencing injustice as a visible muslim compelled her to run for a school board vacancy where she became the only woman to serve on the school board at the time. She won her election in November 2018, and is now the first hijabi Muslim and the youngest woman serving as an elected official in San Jose and all of Santa Clara County. In her role as school board member, Maimona oversees a $100 million dollar budget and advocates for the best interest of 7,000+ students in the district. Maimona is uncontested in the 2020 election. Hence, she will be re-elected to serve another four year term.

For more information visit her website: https://www.votemaimona.com

Moderator:

Areeba Yaseen, Communications Director at Georgette Gomez for Congress

Areeba Yasin is currently a Junior at American University in Washington D.C. where she studies Economics and Political Science. She currently sits on the board of D.C. College Democrats as their Inclusivity and Accessibility Director where she works to improve the everyday dynamics of the organization to create equitable spaces for all identities and backgrounds. Additionally, Areeba serves as the Communications Director at Georgette Gomez for Congress, where the candidate is running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives to represent California’s 53rd district. While Areeba has certainly focused her time as an undergraduate student acquiring public policy knowledge and experience, ultimately she hopes to create a non-profit that helps K-12 public schools across the country reshape their curriculum to better serve, uplift and represent students from all walks of life in order to create a more inclusive future.

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/areeba-yasin/

OPEN Silicon Valley is hosting a series of webinar to highlight candidate who have dedicated their time to serving communities they live in. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and learn what drives them to public service and how they aspire to make positive impact in the communities they serve.

Samir’s passion for public service started at the age of 13 when he came to the USA 38 years ago. He got involved in local politics and since then had a dream of becoming a US Congressman. He hopes that his candidacy will motivate all diverse ethnic groups and younger generations to take part in the political process.

The City of Dublin is a place that his family and he have proudly called home for the past nine years. His wife, Sobia Qureshi and he have raised four children who have attended and are still attending Dublin public schools.

He is running to give back to this community. He has always had a passion to be in public service and during his life he had the privilege to serve on the Environmental Commission, Human Services Committee, Zoning Board, School Board in other states and more recently the Dublin Planning Commission.

For more info, visit – https://samirfordublin.com/

OPEN Silicon Valley is hosting a series of webinar to highlight candidate who have dedicated their time to serving communities they live in. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and learn what drives them to public service and how they aspire to make positive impact in the communities they serve.

Omar’s parents immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 1983. His first exposure to politics was going with his siblings while in elementary school to protests against the Iraq war. Throughout his upbringing, his family would never shy away from politics and the belief that the most patriotic thing a person could do was fight to make government better. This ethos stayed with him as he went to De Anza Community College where he managed a student budget of $1.2 million. It was also then that he was appointed one of the youngest commissioners in Sunnyvale city history to the Parks and Recreations Commission. He completed his degree in public policy at Cornell University. He intend to use the knowledge he gained from those experiences, and from working for Assembly member Evan Low and Congressmember Mike Honda, for the City of Sunnyvale.

OPEN Silicon Valley is hosting a series of webinar to highlight candidate who have dedicated their time to serving communities they live in. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and learn what drives them to public service and how they aspire to make positive impact in the communities they serve.

Sabina Zafar was inaugurated into office on December 11, 2018 and is currently serving her first term as a Councilwoman. In November 2019, she was appointed as the Vice Mayor by unanimous vote of the Council and Mayor. She is an accomplished technology leader, community volunteer, mentor and mother. As a San Ramon resident, Sabina is wholeheartedly committed to giving back to her city. She has dedicated her career and personal time to improving our community, empowering women & girls to pursue STEM careers, helping make San Ramon the center of technology and innovation in the Bay Area, and promises to ensure transparency and inclusion in our local government for all residents.

Sabina holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer and Information Systems from the University of South Alabama. She is an Enterprise Architecture Leader at General Electric Digital in San Ramon, delivering technology solutions for Global Industrial companies. Sabina has raised both her children in San Ramon and they attended SRVUSD from K -12.

OPEN Silicon Valley is hosting a series of webinar to highlight candidate who have dedicated their time to serving communities they live in. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and learn what drives them to public service and how they aspire to make positive impact in the communities they serve.

Belal Aftab is running for City Council in Saratoga on a platform of community safety, keeping Saratoga green and fiscal responsibility. Belal is currently Chair of the Traffic Safety Commission in Saratoga and Vice Chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. He is also involved in a variety of local community organizations and nonprofits. You can learn more at belalforsaratoga.com/about-me. A Saratoga native – he would be the youngest member of the Council if elected at the age of 34.

Professionally, Belal currently works at financial technology company Stripe building economic infrastructure for the Internet, where he and his team help look after the company’s largest customers. Prior to Stripe, Belal worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, growth equity investing at a global fund and strategic operations at a consumer products company. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

With the evolution of online social media platforms like instagram and tiktok, marketing of products and services has evolved to include influencers as mainstream channels.

Meet three such influencers who have build a brand for themselves and learn the secrets to the art of influencer marketing.

Name: Parisa Mirza-Khan

IG handle: @parisamk

Bio: Book Review Blogger/Vlogger & Lifestyle Influencer , CEO/Founder: Enchant by Parisa (It’s an online shop for book novelties) www.enchant.store

Name: Faisal N. Cheema, M.D.

IG handle: @doc.supercar

Bio: I am a physician specializing in hematology and oncology. I am passionate about my profession and am equally passionate about cars.

Name: Aaliya Yaqub, MD

IG and TikTok handles: @clearskindoc

Bio: Dr. Aaliya Yaqub is a medical doctor, wellness expert and writer. She is the medical founder of Forward, a chain of modern doctor’s offices powered by AI. She is also the Medical Founder is Simple HealthKit, a diagnostics startup. She is an active angel investor and advisor to healthcare startups. She is passionate about mentoring female founders and supporting them.

Dr. Yaqub is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship at Stanford. She did a fellowship in the Department of Dermatology. She serves as an independent consultant to skincare brands.

She started her instagram account in 2017 and blogs about lifestyle, skincare and empowering content for women. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and 4 young kids.

Wardah Inam is the Co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based startup Overjet that raised $7.85 million in a seed round to bring data-driven care to dental practices.

Join us as Fahad Aziz, Co-founder of Caremerge talks to Wardah about her entrepreneurial journey, her most recent round of funding and how has COVID 19 impacted her startup.