Pakistani–American investor and business executive
Zia Chishti
Born
Wilson Lear
1971 (age 52–53)
Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Alma mater
Lahore American School Columbia University Stanford University
Occupation
Business executive
Known for
Orthoclear, Afiniti
Spouse
Sarah Pobereskin
(m. 2020)
Partner
Tatiana Spottiswoode (c. 2017)
Awards
Sitara-e-Imtiaz for IT (2018)
Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti (born 1971) is a Pakistani-American investor and business executive. He is the founder of Afiniti and TRG Global.[1][2][3]
After starting his career as a Morgan Stanley investment banker, Chishti invented the medical device Invisalign and co-founded Align Technology to market the product[4] in 1997.[5] He was CEO of Align until 2003, when he founded the investment fund The Resource Group.[6] In 2005 he co-founded both Orthoclear[5] and Afiniti, the latter of which develops artificial intelligence for use in customer call centers.[7] Chishti was a named inventor on around 150 issued patents by 2018,[citation needed] and had co-founded three unicorn startup companies.[8] In 2021, he resigned after accusations of sexual harassment and violence in his career were made public.
^Faseeh Mangi (October 2, 2017). "Tycoon Takes Investors Heli Skiing to Show Them Pakistan's Safe". Bloomberg. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
^"This company founded by a Pakistani is valued at $1.6 billion". The Express Tribune. April 16, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
^"Meet Zia Chishti, the US-born Pakistani who founded two billion-dollar companies". Al Arabiya. December 8, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
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^"Born in the US, raised in Pakistan: Man who founded two billion-dollar companies | The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
^Tony Boyd (May 18, 2018). "Afiniti founder Zia Chishti on his third billion-dollar company". Financial Review. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
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