Professional Career
Imran Anwar served as the Business Manager of the Jang Group of Newspapers in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan. The Jang Group is the largest media organisation in Pakistan certified by ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation). Imran Anwar served as Correspondent and General Manager of MAG Weekly, Pakistan's largest circulation weekly English publication.
Before migrating to the United States in January 1989, Imran Anwar founded a small technology and consulting business in Pakistan under the trademark acronym IMRAN (Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks).
In 1990, Imran Anwar and his colleague Ashar Nisar established Pakistan's .PK Domain (ccTLD or country code top-level domain) Imran Anwar created imran.pk (aka IMRAN-NET) as the first ISP in Pakistan. Anwar has been credited as being the "Father of the Internet Email System" in Pakistan as he is credited with introducing global branded credit cards to Pakistan banks and customers. (In 1996 the government owned telecom monopoly in Pakistan failed to wrest control of the domain from private hands, and in the late 1990s the ccTLD moved to "collective national management" by the many Internet related stakeholders in Pakistan.)
In the United States, Imran Anwar has worked with Viant (formerly Silicon Valley Internet Partners) and with Computer Associates for several years. Later he was appointed CEO of EverTrac helping technology companies to develop GPS, wireless and RFID based solutions used in law enforcement, logistics and government.
Imran Anwar currently serves on Long Island's Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Advisory Board. Anwar previously served on Editorial Advisory Board for VARbusiness Magazine of CMP Media. He also served in the non-profit child welfare industry in Florida as CIO of a well-known organisation, and continues to be a consultant to the industry.
Anwar is the current head of ITC (Incorporated Technologies Corporation) based in Lahore, Pakistan, and New York, USA, which develops Web 2.0 technology-based solutions in Social Networking, online content Monetization, and mobile eBusiness.
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