
Co-Founder at Personforce
San Francisco Bay Area

Co-Founder at Personforce
San Francisco Bay Area
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Atif is a serial entrepreneur developing innovative solutions using ICT.
Prior to Personforce, he co-founded Pakistan's largest job site and human resources software company, BrightSpyre (http://www.BrightSpyre.com). As well, Atif has had engineering and management roles at United Nations and COMSATS.
Atif is also running a very successful Tele-healthcare project in rural Pakistan. This is the first of its kind project in rural Mardan district where free healthcare services are extended to the poor and needy using ICT.
He has received numerous awards including "Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2004" from Shell Oil and DHL YES Award for "Young Social Entrepreneur, 2007". Atif was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University in 2006 where he focused his studies on social entrepreneurship.
Specialities: Startups, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile SN Solutions, HR based web portals.
Technical Skills: PHP/Perl, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CSS, Javascript among others
Social Sector: Healthcare services
Entrepreneurship, Tele-healthcare, healthcare, social networking web portals, Poetry, Urdu Literature, Ghazals, HRM, Job Portals, Open Source, Linux
IEEE Computer Society,
Reuters Digital Vision Program,
Association for Development of Pakistan
PASHA
Awarded Tameer Award for "Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2004" by Shell Oil
Awarded DHL YES Award for "Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007" by DHL