Winners 'Progress toward circularity' Marie Claire Sustainability Awards

Ijaz Akram

Ijaz is a highly resilient, creative and commercially minded product and technology leader and entrepreneur.

A former software developer who grew into Chief technology and product officer roles, he has 15+ years of proven success in global technology companies such as Amazon and Microsoft where he was a founding member of their London development centres and scaled up tech hubs globally. Ijaz also has experience in C suite roles in multiple VC/crowd funded backed startups.

He is incredibly passionate about building ground-breaking and disruptive global products,is a big advocate of women in tech initiatives combined with a desire to never accept the status quo.

He is currently the founder of Mindmix technology where he aspires to share his vast experience, combined with continuing to create new technology to solve hard problems. He also has a list of amazing books and blogs he shares with people he likes.