Leadership
Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
jamil[at]kualitatem.com
Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer founded Kualitatem in 2006 and has played a key role in taking it from a startup to an award winning software QA services enterprise. Prior to Kualitatem, Jamil was involved in a speech technology startup and a social enterprise where he developed the ideas into business models and strategically made them sustainable. He has also worked on different projects with organizations like Nike Inc, United Nations Development Program, GTZ, Canadian International Development Agency, Responsible Business Initiative, The Foundation for Development Cooperation Australia etc. He was a pioneer research team member with Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (www.crulp.org) where his work in speech and signal processing was credited in international conference and journal publications. Jamil is a fellow with Diplo Foundaton where he has completed a course work and policy research in the area of Internet Governance. He holds an undergraduate degree in software and a graduate degree in information systems management. He is also a certified information system auditor (CISA), a certification by Information Systems Audit and Control Association, USA (ISACA). Jamil is passionate about technology entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and Internet governance.
Khurram Javed Mir
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer
khurram[at]kualitatem.com
Khurram Javed Mir is leading the marketing and QA team with his extensive QA expertise. He has worked as a QA expert for more than 6 years with a wide portfolio in quality assurance activities. He has successfully completed various projects of assuring quality of web and mobile applications and has experience of known problems and dilemmas faced by QA departments. His skill set spans from requirement verification and validation, design time controls and test plans, writing test cases, generating test reports and bug reports and conducting audits. He is also trained on CMM and CMMi level implementations and QA. Mr. Mir has done his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from FAST and his MBA from LUMS. He has also attended conferences conducted by National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Pakistan) and Harvard University (USA).
Muhammad Afzal
VP Business Development, UAE
Muhammad.afzal[at]kualitatem.com
Afzal, a graduate of business administration from Punjab University - Pakistan, brings along 30+ years of illustrious blue chip sales and operational management, financial advisory and business consultancy experience. He served IBM for 24 years in various line and senior management positions in Pakistan and IBM European Headquarters at France. While at IBM France, he was responsible for IBM Middle East and Africa marketing support and channels management activities. He was the architect of Outsourcing (BOT) business model in Information Technology services in 1993, and successfully closed largest deal of US$ 52 million for IBM by closing the contract of the National ID Card project of Pakistan, under the BOT model. He was recognized by IBM and was awarded the coveted "IBM President Club Award" and "IBM Golden Circle Award". He also has over fifteen IBM Excellence and Sales Achievement awards from IBM.
After leaving IBM, as an independent consultant, he successfully established and managed two software companies for large business groups in Pakistan and one Financial Advisory and Consultancy business in Dubai, UAE. During his short stint of three years in financial advisory consultancy business in Dubai, he successfully raised a total equity of US$ 15 million from Middle East. During the last one year consultancy assignment of Rainbow Rewards, he played a key role in creating RR awareness in Middle East and nurturing a strategic Middle East partner for RR.
He has read several papers on Technology and Trade at various international forums in Middle East, Belgium and Nepal. He was appointed the "Honorary Member of IT Task Force" by the Government of Pakistan, which was chaired by the Minister of IT. He is a recipient of "National IT Pioneer Award" for 2001-2002 by NCR Corporation, adjudged by Price Waterhouse Coopers, for his services in promoting Information Technology business in the Pakistan.
Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
jamil[at]kualitatem.com
Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer founded Kualitatem in 2006 and has played a key role in taking it from a startup to an award winning software QA services enterprise. Prior to Kualitatem, Jamil was involved in a speech technology startup and a social enterprise where he developed the ideas into business models and strategically made them sustainable. He has also worked on different projects with organizations like Nike Inc, United Nations Development Program, GTZ, Canadian International Development Agency, Responsible Business Initiative, The Foundation for Development Cooperation Australia etc. He was a pioneer research team member with Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (www.crulp.org) where his work in speech and signal processing was credited in international conference and journal publications. Jamil is a fellow with Diplo Foundaton where he has completed a course work and policy research in the area of Internet Governance. He holds an undergraduate degree in software and a graduate degree in information systems management. He is also a certified information system auditor (CISA), a certification by Information Systems Audit and Control Association, USA (ISACA). Jamil is passionate about technology entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and Internet governance.
Khurram Javed Mir
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer
khurram[at]kualitatem.com
Khurram Javed Mir is leading the marketing and QA team with his extensive QA expertise. He has worked as a QA expert for more than 6 years with a wide portfolio in quality assurance activities. He has successfully completed various projects of assuring quality of web and mobile applications and has experience of known problems and dilemmas faced by QA departments. His skill set spans from requirement verification and validation, design time controls and test plans, writing test cases, generating test reports and bug reports and conducting audits. He is also trained on CMM and CMMi level implementations and QA. Mr. Mir has done his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from FAST and his MBA from LUMS. He has also attended conferences conducted by National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Pakistan) and Harvard University (USA).
Muhammad Afzal
VP Business Development, UAE
Muhammad.afzal[at]kualitatem.com
Afzal, a graduate of business administration from Punjab University - Pakistan, brings along 30+ years of illustrious blue chip sales and operational management, financial advisory and business consultancy experience. He served IBM for 24 years in various line and senior management positions in Pakistan and IBM European Headquarters at France. While at IBM France, he was responsible for IBM Middle East and Africa marketing support and channels management activities. He was the architect of Outsourcing (BOT) business model in Information Technology services in 1993, and successfully closed largest deal of US$ 52 million for IBM by closing the contract of the National ID Card project of Pakistan, under the BOT model. He was recognized by IBM and was awarded the coveted "IBM President Club Award" and "IBM Golden Circle Award". He also has over fifteen IBM Excellence and Sales Achievement awards from IBM.
After leaving IBM, as an independent consultant, he successfully established and managed two software companies for large business groups in Pakistan and one Financial Advisory and Consultancy business in Dubai, UAE. During his short stint of three years in financial advisory consultancy business in Dubai, he successfully raised a total equity of US$ 15 million from Middle East. During the last one year consultancy assignment of Rainbow Rewards, he played a key role in creating RR awareness in Middle East and nurturing a strategic Middle East partner for RR.
He has read several papers on Technology and Trade at various international forums in Middle East, Belgium and Nepal. He was appointed the "Honorary Member of IT Task Force" by the Government of Pakistan, which was chaired by the Minister of IT. He is a recipient of "National IT Pioneer Award" for 2001-2002 by NCR Corporation, adjudged by Price Waterhouse Coopers, for his services in promoting Information Technology business in the Pakistan.
