Abdulla Hisham

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 5 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in Product and Growth.
Co-founded multiple successful startups.
Expertise in AI, Web3, and EdTech.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned entrepreneur in EdTech and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementGtm StrategyBusiness DevelopmentEngineeringProject Management

Other Skills

Event TicketingMarketingWeb3AIGamingTechnology ServicesProduct DevelopmentEdTechAR/VRComputer VisionMachine LearningWeb ApplicationsOpen SourceEducation TechnologyControl Systems

About

Versatile and results-driven professional with over 17 years of experience in Product and Growth. Demonstrates expertise in GTM strategy, marketing, business development, partnerships, product management, research, innovation, and design thinking. Proficient in diverse product lines encompassing ERP, AI, AR, VR, and Web3, catering to B2B, B2C, and B2G markets.

Experience

22 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Ticmint

Co-Founder

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · United Arab Emirates

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable ticketing ecosystem that eliminates fraudulent practices, benefits all stakeholders and contributes to inclusive growth in the economy.
Ticmint offers a customizable white-label ticketing platform that enables organizers to create tailored workflows and features, managing the entire event ticketing lifecycle efficiently and cost-effectively.
We enable organizations to:
Create tailored workflows and customization, making it hyper-personalized and localized in terms of product and customer experience.
Provides inbuilt marketing tools and essential integrations to drive growth.
Offers end-to-end white-label solutions so they can sell under their own brand, terms, and pricing.
Empowers organizations to go global by ensuring compliance with regional regulations and supporting localization, as well as multi-country and multi-currency capabilities.
Grants organizers full ownership of audience data, fostering direct relationships and loyalty. Our focus on privacy and autonomy aligns with modern data standards, adding unique value.
Provides organizers with improved cash flow management.
Reduces fraudulent activities.
Enable organisers to control, manage and track secondary market using smart contracts
Generate additional revenue streams through secondary market trading and collectibles by implementing royalty mechanisms.
In this digital age, neutral digital alternatives will hold supremacy over existing social, political, and economic stances. Web3 and AI has the power to revolutionize our approach and create a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous world, aligning with the United Nations' vision for addressing the world's most complex problems. It is imperative that we harness the transformative capabilities of AI and Web3 to contribute towards a more peaceful and harmonious world. I am passionate about leveraging these advancements to contribute towards a future that is inclusive and equitable.

Event TicketingGTM strategyMarketingProduct ManagementWeb3AI

Practically

2 roles

Chief Growth Officer

Mar 2022 – Nov 2022 · 8 mos

Vice President Of Products

Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 7 mos

Building responsible products and making ‘Inclusive Education' a reality.
Practically (a Tracxn Top K12 Edtech startup in 2022) is an intelligent, interactive and immersive learning app for students of classes K-12 with a focus on STEM learning.
It is the leading experiential learning app that brings learning alive through immersive 3D videos, simulations, augmented and virtual reality (AR / VR) and immersive labs.
It also help resolve doubts 24x7, where students can reach out to subject experts on the platform or DIY using AI assistance.
Practically also provides Live classes, Coding and Test prep platform making it one stop solution for all your learning needs.
Building the Education Metaverse.
Key awards -
o Top 50 leading startups - Silicon Valley TiEcon50 (2021)
o Best Learning management platform – India Education Award 2021
o Most Innovative STEM solution – World Education Summit 2021

Product DevelopmentEdTechAR/VRProduct ManagementGTM strategy

Aindra labs

Co-Founder and CEO (Product & Growth)

Nov 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Aindra Labs creates Computer Vision and Machine Learning based products that provide a Visual Analytics system that helps businesses derive actionable intelligence from textual data and images/videos captured from real-life scenarios.
Abdulla Hisham played a crucial role in getting Aindra Labs recognized by relevant technical magazines and incubators as Top 10 India and 50 Global Computer Vision startups.
On-boarded Arauco (largest forestry company in Latam), Hero MotoCorp, GE Aviation, NSDL Payments Bank, NTT are some of the premium clients powered by our Computer Vision technology.
Won Startup Chile Accelerator, K-SAP BIO50, a finalist in Google Launchpad Accelerator, Airbus Aerospace Accelerator, Defence India Startup Challenge and more.
Lead R&D and Product team to create differentiators and patents.

Computer VisionMachine LearningProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementBusiness Development

Startup leadership program

Fellow

Oct 2018 – May 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

The Startup Leadership Program is a highly selective, world-class training program for outstanding founders, leaders, and innovators who want to become top startup CEOs.

Self-employed

Advisor, Consultant and Investor

Jan 2017 – Dec 2022 · 5 yrs 11 mos

o Aindra System - AI based Medtech startup
o Gamasome - A Gaming startup
o Awesomist - Technology services company
o Foaps - Operating System for Restaurants. Foaps organize and accelerate restaurant business using technology. Help raise seed funds and streamline product and GTM strategy.
o FTrail – Raised USD 200,000.

AIGamingTechnology ServicesGTM strategyBusiness Development

Foradian technologies

2 roles

Co-founder and Non Executive Director

Dec 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Co-founder and Director - Operations (Product & Growth)

Jan 2009 – Nov 2016 · 7 yrs 10 mos

Abdulla Hisham is the Co-founder and Director of Foradian Technologies, a Bangalore-based company that builds innovative web applications for education domain.
Fedena, the flagship product of Foradian is an open source school management system used in more than 40,000 institutions around the world powering 20 million users.
Foradian successfully initiated and implemented Fedena in all the 15,000 schools of Kerala, India in collaboration with Government of Kerala, which is one of the largest deployment of open source software of it’s kind in the world. This project helps the government to save more than 10 million dollars every year. The same project was listed in the e-Asia award finalist 2011.
Foradian is also known for the creation of Indian Rupee Font for the Indian Rupee symbol which got more than 20 million downloads.
Hisham played a crucial role in growing Foradian from a small town startup to a profitable technology company and helped in winning prestigious awards like,
Deloitte 15th Fastest Growing Company 2014, Deloitte 28th Fastest Growing Company 2015 India
MIT TR35
Edustars
‘League of 10’ in NASSCOM Emerge 50 for innovation in education and more.
Foradian was honored by Education Minister, Kerala for the achievements in Education sector
Featured in NDTV, CNBC TV18 Young Turks and more.
Recognized in several market research reports, including Gartner, Deloitte, PwC, and others.
Hisham was invited as speaker for various international conferences like International FOSS Conference India, Indiana LinuxFest USA etc., including TED talks.
As the Co-founder, Promoter initially raised the funds for running the company operations and then helped raise series A round of funding for growth and gave profitable exit for the initial investors.
As the COO, spearheaded the entire operations (Product & Growth) of the company including business plan, product vision and roadmap, GTM strategy, marketing, business development, partnerships, and R&D.

Web ApplicationsOpen SourceEducation TechnologyProduct ManagementBusiness Development

Sibca

Control System and Automation Engineer

Dec 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs

As a BMS Engineer, planned, designed and implemented from concept to hand over the complete project using distributed control system to control the buildings mechanical and electrical equipment such as ventilation, lighting power systems, fire systems, home automation and security systems.
A BMS consists of software and hardware; the software program, usually configured in a hierarchical manner, can be proprietary, using such protocols as C-bus, Profibus, and so on. (Internet protocols and open standards such as DeviceNet, SOAP, XML, BACnet, LonWorks and Modbus.) Also includes automation (with security- hardware and software) of the entire entity.
Lead and successfully completed one of the largest networked BMS project of that time connecting 50+ buildings simultaneously . - Al Ain University, UAE.