Arhum Ishtiaq is a product, data, and AI expert with 6+ years of experience in building, scaling and consulting startups across South Asia and South America to boost their commercial and social impact globally.

He is an alumnus of Habib University with a Bachelor in Computer Science and Math. His primary motivation is to enable scalable and sustainable social development through technology. He founded Pakistan's first and largest Deaf-focused assistive-tech startup, ConnectHear as its CTO, and assisted Sequoia-backed fintech DGlobal in developing their data products.

He's one of Pakistan's first ever winners of The Diana Award, hailed as a Young Innovator by the World Summit Awards, recently recognized as Pride of Pakistan by DG ISPR and covered across many local and international publications for his work.