Mohammad Khawaja is currently the CEO of Startappz - a specialized house of expertise for smart technologies that partners with leading telecom operators, government organizations and airlines.

Before that, Mohamad worked at the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship as the Executive Director and the founding Project Manager of Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition – The first startup competition in Jordan. He was also in charge of managing the “Google Award for The Best Online Business” and the “Cisco Entrepreneur Institute” as well. Earlier in 2001, Mohamad co-founded his first business in the domain of content management solutions.

Mohamad is a Communication Engineer by education, he is an active member of Tech, VC and geek communities in Arabia and one of the co-creators of the global bestsellers: "Business Model Generation" & "Business Model You", in addition to being the master reviewer for the Arabic edition of "Value Proposition Design" and active evangelist and widely recognized advisor in lean startup and customer development methodologies for entrepreneurs around the world.