Shajahan Merchant

Shajahan Merchant is currently the Founder of Amizen Labs (amizenlabs.com), a company that helps organizations gain competitive edge by maximizing value using Artificial Intelligence. What will your industry look like in the next 5 years? How will you compete in the age of AI? Will you be a disruptor or be disrupted?

Shajahan is deeply passionate about solving unique problems that make a difference in people’s lives. Amizen Labs has recently launched threatvision.ai beta programme, a first-of-its-kind patent pending technology that is on a mission to save lives from armed robbery and gun violence using advancement in computer vision and artificial intelligence.

Shajahan previously founded and led Intellectual Capital Services, Inc. Under his leadership, the firm became one of the fastest growing privately held companies in USA. Intellectual Capital Services, Inc. was a leading digital consulting and solutions firm that helped organizations achieve their strategic objectives through digital transformation.

Prior to founding Intellectual Capital Services, he initiated the digital practice at Bond Technologies and led many large-scale enterprise projects for financial, media, publishing, and media firms. Shajahan was awarded the title of “Most Valuable Professional” by Microsoft for his valuable contributions to the online community.

During his early part of the career, Shajahan was responsible for developing medical software products for Rozinn. Shajahan has also started, led and exited ventures in the consumer marketing and technology sectors.

Shajahan has been deeply involved in volunteer service and has been a recipient of the New York State Senate Commendation Award as well as New York City Council Citation.

Shajahan is a graduate of the Entrepreneurship Master’s Program developed by MIT Enterprise Forum and Inc., he has a diploma in software engineering, an undergraduate degree in Commerce and Business Administration from India and MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.