Following his graduation in Mechatronics & Control Engineering, M.Farhan Riaz is practicing and a result-driven entrepreneur having more than 10 years of experience in the field of startups. He joined KICS, University of Engineering & Technology (UET Lahore) in 2014 and then founded the Technology Incubation & Commercialization Center of the university.

Before joining UET, he bootstrapped his chatting client which happened to be Pakistan’s first ever Mobile Messenger back then with a big user base across the globe. It taught him well about startup dynamics. By the virtue of it, he consults, mentors and coaches startups. He also used to teach Entrepreneurship Specialization courses in the University of Central Punjab from 2011-2014 where he co-founded the Department of Entrepreneurship with Dr. Shehryar.

Recognized by GCIP UNIDO as the best mentor for Cleantech Business Plan Competition in Silicon Valley, he specializes and is interested in the following areas ;

• Innovation & Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
• Business Incubation & Research Commercialization
• Business Systemization & Scaling Early Stage Startups,
• Idea Generation & Creativity
• Guerrilla Marketing & Growth Hacking,
• Digital Marketing & E-commerce

Analytical with strong systems skills, his method of coaching is experiential and has even gamified some of his classes. He also mentors startups in other universities and incubators and is now focused on creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the university to foster innovation and startup culture.