Mar. 21, 2009
AL-KARIM SOMJI
AGE: 35; President and CEO
Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
Born and raised in Tanzania, Al-Karim Somji, whose father died when Somji was 16, helped run his family’s retail business, operate a restaurant, and then a bookstore and stationery shop–all by the time he was 18. At 19, he was at the University of Ottawa, looking at computers for the first time. “I was amazed and excited by what computers could do,” says Somji, who graduated summa cum laude in computer engineering in 1991 and began his career at Bell Canada, where he worked in business development, sales and corporate engineering.
In 1997, Somji founded Eftia, which provides operational support systems (OSS) for telecommunications companies.
via The Globe and Mail.
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