Waqas Mirza is the founding CEO of Avanza Innovations – the latest venture of Avanza Group of Companies, a 22-year-old technology power house that caters to 300 customers across 45 countries, and processes 12 million transactions every day.

Avanza Innovations was established by Waqas in 2018 to focus on nascent technologies such as Blockchain, Web 3.0, Tokenization, Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence and Smart City Projects.

Under his leadership, Avanza Innovations has achieved the biggest market share in delivering national and city scale production-grade platforms to top-tier government entities, regulators, and large corporations in the GCC region.