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Mehrdad is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Future Secure AI, an innovative high-growth venture in the enterprise AI space. Mehrdad serves as a Distinguished Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, an appointment which crosses all departments across the university. In addition, Mehrdad is the Co-founder and CEO of the High Resolves Group, a not-for-profit social venture in citizenship education which has engaged over 6 million young people across the world. Mehrdad is also the co-founder of Running Cloud Productions, a film production compan and the Executive Producer of the award-winning films Descent and Diving Into The Darkness.
He is a frequent lecturer and writer on management theory especially in the growth strategy domain. He is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller As One as well as international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and Granularity. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and co-leader of the Firm’s worldwide Growth Practice.
Previously, he was Founder and Chairman of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique strategy advisory firm advising large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. Before that, Mehrdad served a three-year term in the public sector as an Executive Director at CSIRO with overarching responsibility for growth and commercialization where he launched the famous WiFi litigation and spun out dozens of companies. Prior to that, Mehrdad was a partner at McKinsey & Company where he co-led the growth practice worldwide.
Mehrdad received a B.S.E. with highest honors from Princeton University, an M.P.P. as a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. with high honors at Harvard Law School. Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and winner of the prestigious John P. McNulty Prize. He was also awarded a social entrepreneur of the year award by the Schwab Foundation, sister organisation to the World Economic Forum.
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