Muhammad Junaid Jawaid

Muhammad Junaid Jawaid runs incubation at I-Thrive, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan, where he started the business incubator for fintech ideas. He came to the work from the other side of the table: he graduated from the National Incubation Centre Karachi's very first cohort as a founder himself.

Since then he has worked across the NIC network and its national expansion plan, the Technology Park Incubation Centre, and the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences. On social entrepreneurship and on AI-based healthcare, which are the two halves of his own training meeting.

He trains for universities, ORICs, business incubation centres, the Pakistan Software Export Board and P@SHA, on soft skills, on starting something, and on keeping your head while you do it. He is a computer scientist by degree and a certified clinical psychotherapist by a second one, and that combination is unusual enough to be the point.