Khuram Zaman
Fifth Tribe CEO
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Khuram Zaman is the CEO of Fifth Tribe, a leading digital agency serving the Washington DC Metropolitan Area based out of the 1776 Startup Accelerator. In his professional capacity, he has provided digital marketing services to clients as diverse as the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, Aetna Innovation Health, Kaiser Permanente, Silatech, Oxfam, and The Hult Prize. His writing has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, Business2Community, and LinkedIn Publisher. In 2016, his work in data science drew recognition when his anti-ISIS dataset became the #1 trending dataset on Kaggle – the largest online community of data scientists. He gave a keynote address entitled “Innovation Culture: Multiplying Impact Across Sectors” at the Fall 2016 Business Analytics Form at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2015, his company was appointed to Private Sector Committee along with Goldman Sachs and IBM to the Global Community Engagement Resiliency Fund (GCERF). In December 2014, Khuram and his co-worker won 1st place at the Hedaya Hackathon during the Global CVE Expo where they developed and prototyped a crowdsourcing and social media platform to counter violent extremist messages.