M. Farhaan Riaz
M. Farhaan Riaz
Mohammad Farhaan Riaz is a seasoned entrepreneur and a founding program manager of TICK-Technology Incubation Center at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. With over a decade of experience in the field of startups, he has a strong passion for early-stage businesses, e-commerce, and creating campus-based ecosystems. Farhaan believes that entrepreneurship is the key to driving change, and he helps foster entrepreneurial culture by providing a facilitating ecosystem and acting as an innovation engine for engineering alumni. He is also a startup consultant, mentor, and coach, having bootstrapped Pakistan's first-ever mobile messenger, which had over 4 million international users. Farhaan teaches entrepreneurship specialization courses at the University of Central Punjab and has co-founded the Department of Entrepreneurship there. His focus areas include Idea Generation & Creativity, Lean Startups, Business Incubation, Guerrilla Marketing, Growth Hacking, and Business Systemization. In his company, ChatBlocks, he provides chatting solutions and is constantly working on new and innovative products.