Founder and CEO of Afghan Citadel Software Company
Roya Mahboob (Dari: رویا محبوب) is an Afghan businesswoman.[1] She founded and is CEO of the Afghan Citadel Software Company, a full-service software development company based in Herat, Afghanistan.[2] She has received attention for being among the first IT female CEOs in Afghanistan,[3] where it is still relatively rare for women to work outside the home.[1][4][5] On 18 April 2013, Mahboob was named to TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2013 for her work in building internet classrooms in high schools in Afghanistan and for Women's Annex, a multilingual blog and video site hosted by Film Annex. This was the 10th anniversary of the TIME special edition. The Women's Annex platform give the women of Afghanistan and Central Asia a platform to tell their stories to the world. The TIME magazine introduction to Mahboob was written by Sheryl Sandberg who is the chief operating officer of Facebook and the author of "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead".[6][7] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Mahboob and other Afghan women entrepreneurs at the International Center for Women's Economic Development at the American University of Afghanistan.[8] She is also known for her work with online film distribution platform and Web Television Network Film Annex on the Afghan Development Project.[9] She is an advisor at the Forbes School of Business & Technology.[10]
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