Dilawar Syed
Dilawar Syed | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration | |
Nominee | |
| Assuming office TBD | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Leader | Isabel Guzman |
| Succeeding | Althea Coetzee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pakistan |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MBA) |
Dilawar Syed is a Pakistani-American businessman who is the president and CEO of Lumiata. On March 5, 2021, it was announced that Syed would be nominated to serve as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Early life and education
Syed immigrated to the United States from Pakistan as a college student to attend the College of Wooster in Ohio. Syed earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics and computer science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Career
Syed was the president of Freshworks, where he helped scale the software company’s products to thousands of small and medium businesses. He is also the founding chair of the California Entrepreneurship Task Force within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. He served on the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and chaired the White House Initiative on AAPIs’ Economic Growth Committee. In that role, Syed led the administration’s engagement with small businesses across the U.S. after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Syed also served as a liaison with the Small Business Administration and the United States Department of Commerce on federal initiatives such as the President's Export Council.[1]
Deputy Administrator of the SBA
On March 3, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Syed to be the deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration. His nomination was sent to the Senate later that same day and is pending before the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.[2] If confirmed, he would be the highest ranking Muslim-American in the Biden administration.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "President Biden Announces Key Nominee for the Small Business Administration", White House, March 3, 2021
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ "Nomination Sent to the Senate", White House, March 3, 2021
- ↑ Sohrabji, Sunita (March 3, 2021). "Biden Nominates AAPI Victory Fund Co-chair Dilawar Syed as Deputy Administrator at Small Business Administration". India West. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
External links
- Dilawar Syed on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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