About EmpiricAI

Salman Chaudhary has over 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles in enterprise software, Internet, and technology consulting firms. He has a successful track record of starting and growing businesses in North America, Europe, and Asia and developing innovative technology solutions to deliver business value to leading Global 1000 companies.
Prior to EmpiricAI, Salman was Managing Director, EMEA for MaintenanceNet, a leading SaaS solution provider, that was sold to Cisco in 2016. He also served as Managing Director, EMEA & APAC, at InQuira Inc, a leading Knowledge Management software company, where he was responsible for the company’s international business. InQuira was acquired by Oracle Corp. in 2011. Salman was a co-founder and EVP at OpenCrowd, a New York based technology services firm. Salman was an early hire, and served as Managing Director, EMEA, at Scient, a leading eBusiness consulting firm. Scient had a successful listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and was later acquired by SBI, Inc. Salman was an early hire at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), a business and technology consulting company, where he held several leadership roles, including GM, Financial Services. CTP had a successful listing on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and was later acquired by Novell, Inc.
Salman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul brings with him a wealth of experience in growing key relationships and sales revenues with partners, distributors and end-user customers. He is fully conversant with SaaS, Security, Cloud based solutions, IOT, CCTV, Access control, Intruder, VMS systems and full integrated solutions and has held senior leadership positions within technology and security firms across the USA, Canada, UK and EMEA proven results in developing a `Sales and Marketing` strategy and ensuring all completed business development projects/initiatives deliver continually improved P&L and EBITDA performance.

He has also served as Managing Director EMEA at Arecont Vision a leading high end disruptive CCTV and software company, where he was responsible for taking the solutions into the EMEA market place with 3 digit year on year growth.

Paul holds masters degree in Business from the University of Leicester.

Before founding EmpiricAI, Mr. Khan was President & CTO of ConstellationCK. An Internet marketing company. He also served as CTO of PrimeDTV Inc. an Anaheim California and Shanghai-based startup. He developed various ATSC based products for Chinese broadcasters and television manufactures. Previous to that, he worked at Gemstar Inc and its various acquisitions in Pasadena, Boston, and Hong Kong. Mr. Khan also was a design engineer at Avalon Computer Systems, a high-performance computing startup.

Mr. Khan was awarded two USA and International consumer electronics advertising patents. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Rayana comes with over 15 years-experience in global B2B marketing working for start-ups, SMEs and large organisations in multiple sectors including the automotive, marine, oil & gas, logistics and supply chain. She has a strong background in marketing for tech driven companies including AI-powered technology, e-marketplaces, search engines and SaaS software within the EMEA, APAC and US regions.

In her previous roles, as part of the senior leadership team, she has successfully headed up the marketing functions and managed teams globally, leading the marketing strategy, executing revenue generating campaigns, implementing global re-brands, and managing successful product launches into new markets both domestically and internationally.

Rayana holds a BA (Hons) degree in Marketing from the University of Surrey and a Certificate in Digital Marketing from the Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM).

Tom brings 35+ years of expertise in the design, operation, and maintenance of industrial power plants and process plants to EmpiricAI. Prior to that, he spent 30 years in GE’s Power and Aviation businesses. Most recently, Tom was a leader in GE’s Power Digital practice in the MENA region, where he led the design and implementation of GE's Operational Performance Management (OPM) product line and helped define GE's IIOT vision in the Power sector.
Tom holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University.

Najam brings 20+ years of expertise in the instrument and electrical engineering of industrial and process plants to EmpiricAI. Prior to his current role, Najam spent 10 years in Engro’s Chemical & Fertilizer businesses. Most recently, Najam was Director for Alliances at Engro Digital, where he was responsible for business development and sales of IIOT solutions in the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Najam holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from NED University.

Imran Sayeed is part of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In addition to EmpiricAI Ltd, Sayeed also serves on the board of directors of Dawood Hercules Corporation, a multi-billion dollar publicly traded conglomerate and on the Industry Advisory Board of HERE Technologies, the largest mapping and navigation company in Europe. His role on both boards is to drive digital transformation and promote the use of innovation to create new growth opportunities.

Previously Sayeed was CTO and head of the Digital practice for NTT Data. Sayeed came to NTT through its acquisition of Keane, where he led a 7000 person, $750MM global technology consulting organization. Prior to Keane, Sayeed co-founded Open Environment Corporation, a leading middleware product company that he helped grow from a 10-person startup to an IPO in 1995. He also founded NetNumina, a technology strategy and consulting firm that he led as Chairman and CEO, and grew from a 15 person startup to one of Computerworld’s Top 100 emerging companies and Inc 500’s fastest growing businesses, and subsequently sold to Keane in 2005.

He was also the founding global President of OPEN, an entrepreneurship and leadership organization, which has over 5000 executives and entrepreneurs in 14 cities around the world. He also holds a patent on Internet security technology he jointly developed with Citibank. Sayeed was named by Computerworld as one of the Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2013 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harvard Business Review for his work on entrepreneurship, digital technologies, and innovation. He is also the founder of Teach the World Foundation, a non-profit organisation that promotes a scalable approach for children’s literacy using low-cost tablets and educational games.

Sayeed holds a BA in Engineering from Brown University.

Arif Janjua has over 35 years experience in operational management and consulting in the software, mobile and internet services industry. As an operational manager, Arif was the CEO of idrive, a venture backed company in online storage services.

Prior to that, he was at Infospace, initially as President of Consumer Services and later heading the Corporate Development function. He was instrumental in forging relationships with mobile operators and content providers around the world.

Most recently, as Chairman of Citilabs, a leading provider of mobility analytics solutions, Arif spearheaded the growth and eventual sale of the company to Bentley Systems. In his consulting life, Arif was a partner with the Boston Consulting Group and prior to that, the Global head of A.T. Kearney’s management consulting practice for the Technology vertical. His clients included some of the leading technology companies and mobile operators around the globe.

Arif is currently a Senior Advisor with DH Corporation leading their technology initiatives. He received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology in Lahore, Pakistan; Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.