GLOBAL INNOVATION COMPANY FOUNDER AND CEO AJAZ AHMED

Ajaz Khowaj Quoram Ahmed was born Buckinghamshire in 1973. 

As a kid he showed a keen interest in technology – and started work at 15 for companies such as Ashton Tate, Ocean and the UK division of Apple. After dropping out of business school in 1994 he started his own  innovation company - aged  just 21 and branded with his own initials – A-K-Q- A.

AKQA was born at the beginning of the dot-com boom and surfed every new technology wave to become one of the world’s biggest names in digital design and communications, counting clients such as Nike, Google, Rolls Royce and Starbucks.