“Working with Hamid during my time as Head of Marketing at TigerGraph was a game-changer. His strategic vision and people-first leadership set the foundation for the company’s growth, fostering innovation and alignment across teams. Even under tight constraints, Hamid inspired us to exceed expectations, doubling our enterprise customer base. His steady leadership and focus on collaboration ensured success, and I’m confident any company led by Hamid will achieve incredible results.”
Julia Astashkina
“At TigerGraph, Hamid hired me and quickly promoted me to Head of AI at TigerGraph. Although our AI team was small, Hamid was our biggest champion, with a clear, holistic vision of how we could become the core behind an intelligent agent platform. He had deep understanding of the direction the data and AI industry was going and how we could become a core component of intelligent agent architectures for the future. Hamid always brings strong people and leadership to deliver value to customers.”
Dan McReary
“The first word that comes to mind when I think of Hamid is "passion." I mean this in every sense of the word. The amount of energy he brings to an effort is palpable and of high impact. He is an effective leader and coach providing unique growth opportunities for his teams. If that were not enough, he is also a top notch entrepreneur with a keen focus on all things data. Hamid brings game changing value to an organization and I a look forward to an opportunity where we can work together again.”
Rajan Venkitachalam
“Hamid is a passionate leader heavily invested in making his teams and organization better. I had the pleasure of reporting into Hamid for nearly 14 months. Hamid's passion for promoting continuous innovation & ideas positively created an environment to maximize opportunities. He understands how to take abstract ideas, investigate value, and teach processes to cycle through through the various stages of innovation making his teams better. His energy and emphasis on continuous improvement is inspirational.”
Ed Toth
“Hamid brings many years of technical and product experience to bear, both in startup and enterprise environments. He absorbs new information quickly, identifies opportunities and potential risks and becomes a solution partner working towards delivering valuable outcomes. Hamid’s drive for product success is through the lens of both the customer and business viability. He works tirelessly at making the products and people he works with better than they were yesterday.”
Mark Nelson