Founder of Affirmed Networks, Inc. and WaveAccess Ltd., Hassan M. Ahmed is a businessperson who has been the head of 6 different companies and occupies the position of Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Sway AI Inc and Senior Advisor at Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH.

He is also Advisor at 5G Edge Acquisition Corp. and on the board of 5 other companies.

In his past career he held the position of Chief Financial Officer for Beehive3D, Inc., Chief Technology Officer & VP-Engineering at Cascade Communications, Manager-Product Engineering at Analog Devices, Inc., Advisor at CRV LLC, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Sonus, Inc., Chairman for Affirmed Networks, Inc., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Sonus Networks, Inc., Executive Chairman for Founder SPAC, President for WaveAccess Ltd., EVP & General Manager-Core Switching Division at Ascend Communications, Inc., Director-VSLI Systems at Motorola, Inc., Director-VSLI Systems at Motorola Codex and Associate Professor at Boston University.

Dr. Ahmed received an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from Carleton University and a doctorate from Stanford University.