Murtaza Hussain, President

Murtaza Hussain is a co-founder and the President of Peanut Labs™. In his role, Murtaza leads the company's overall strategy and product direction. Murtaza has been instrumental in forming industry changing partnerships that bridge social media and online communities with the business application needs of the market research community.

In recent years, Murtaza has been heavily involved in the technologies supporting social media, and has developed expertise in building online communities. Murtaza participates regularly as a speaker at industry events, including the Facebook Developer's Conference, Widget Summit 2007, SNAP Summit, and Community Next.

He was most recently co-founder of XuQa.com, a leading online casual gaming community, which was built to 2M+ users and profitability. In 2001, Murtaza founded Gaming Ventura, an international entrepreneurship holding group which he has successfully been leading in his capacity as President for seven years.

Murtaza is a natural inventor and web-developer, leading his team to three consecutive first-place finishes in the Intel International Schools Educational Olympiad from 1999-2001. He was the captain of Team Pakistan in the International Enterprise Olympics, where his team finished third globally. For two seasons, Murtaza also hosted a national youth TV show in Pakistan that boasted a viewership of more than 10 million.

He was pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology at Williams College, MA prior to leaving academia to start the company.

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