Samir Mirza Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Fifth Star Funds is a venture philanthropy fund seeking to address the funding epidemic in America where only 1% of venture capital is awarded to Black founders. We accomplish this by investing in Black tech founders in Chicago at the early stage “Friends & Family” round.We believe the funding gap at this stage is the most critical to address, as centuries.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Seattle, WA, US

Social Venture Partners (SVP) is a group of like-minded individuals taking an investment approach to philanthropy by pooling money, time, and expertise to help nonprofits grow and achieve systemic change.

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago:Blend’s Board represents a diverse mix of thought leaders from local venture capital (VC) firms, tech companies, and other community partners. The group meets regularly and provides strategic guidance and recommendations to the organization as it launches new programs and initiatives to increase representation of overlooked and underestimated.

I am passionate about advising early stage startups on:1) Building and managing agile engineering teams with strong cultures2) Crafting and prioritizing the right product roadmaps3) Designing scalable tech architecturesAs an advisor, I seek to employ First Principles Thinking to challenge all assumptions to get to the root of an issue, and then enable the.

Chicago, IL, US

1871 is the primary hub for Chicago's entrepreneurial ecosystem and is home to over 500 startups. As their CTO In Residence, I help advise and empower 1871's entrepreneurs from a team, product, and technology perspective.

Chicago, Illinois, US

RiseKit (formerly named Solve) provides job seekers access to a career path, regardless of the zip code in which they live. RiseKit’s software connects entry to mid-level job candidates to jobs, training programs, and supportive services to rise above all barriers to employment. In return, the platform helps nonprofits, employers, government systems, and.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

The mission of the ReDI School is to teach refugees how to code to help them get software engineering jobs in Berlin, Germany. I designed the curriculum and taught the Intro and Advanced Java courses for 4 semesters. More info about this amazing school and community:https://www.redi-school.org

Oslo, NO

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the world that protects the rights of people affected by displacement. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons who are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, human rights violations and acute violence, as well as climate change and natural.

New York City, New York, US

Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporations to grow their companies. The accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,400 companies with a market cap of $15.9 Billion. As the Entrepreneur In Residence, I was.

San Francisco, CA, US

I led the Mobile App Promotion ads engineering team which owned one of the largest revenue streams for Twitter ($300M annually). We build the ads products that enable advertisers to efficiently drive installs of their mobile apps and re-engage existing users. The backend systems we’ve built operate at staggering scale: billions of ad auctions per day.

San Francisco, CA, US

I led the Ads Engineering teams focused on mobile app re-engagement / retargeting through the acquisition of my startup TapCommerce.

US

TapCommerce was acquired by Twitter for $100M in July 2014:https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/twitter-acquires-tapcommerceTapCommerce is the global leader in mobile retargeting. We're trusted by the most successful mobile brands to deliver customers, revenue, and return on investment across mobile platforms. Our clients are over 40 of the top 100 grossing.

• Built a suite of iOS and Android Top 40 Shopping mobile applications that amassed over 2 million installed users
• Sole Developer of the top trending Android Black Friday Coupon App in 2011

Chicago, IL, US

• Led teams of developers and architected enterprise content management systems for Fortune 500 clients
• Developed backend applications, trained users, and worked with client technical teams to implement a new content management solution for Medtronic; completed under budget and secured subsequent project work
• Designed and led development of new FDA-regulated interface for Abbott Laboratories third party manufacturers to efficiently import several thousand documents into new content management system
• Managed cross-divisional CMS upgrade to latest version for PepsiCo, allowing over 2,500 users to access marketing studies more effectively
• Implemented new navigation content feed system for Harley Davidson’s US web site and dealer portal
• Created and taught new hire orientation courses for new engineers

Chicago, IL, US

• Developed, tested, and released content management web applications for Fortune 500 clients
• Built several Open Source products; accumulated over $5 million in sales for customized solutions
• Presented company-wide information sessions on Service-Oriented Architectures
• Constructed insurance certificate workflow applications for property managers at Equity Office Properties, at the time the largest owner of office properties in the United States
• Enhanced web portals for Johnson & Johnson to more easily retrieve and view internal documents and content

B.S., Computer Science

M.B.A., Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship