Ebtide Consulting Team

Ebrahim Keshavarz | Managing Partner

Ebrahim has held a variety of leadership position in leading global corporations. At DoubleClick, he was Vice President – Product and Business Development. He was responsible for product management and design of industry’s leading ad serving technology as well as emerging technologies like rich media, wireless and Interactive Television. In addition, he initiated numerous partnerships and led two successful technology acquisitions.

At Compaq, Ebrahim held numerous positions including leading Compaq’s innovative Windows 2000 Datacenter program with Microsoft, which combined software, hardware and services in a complete solution. He was in charge of strategy, marketing, development and a joint lab with Microsoft in Redmond. He also held software marketing, business planning and business development positions (the latter based in Singapore). Ebrahim also has worked for the Boston Consulting Group and Morgan Stanley.

Ebrahim holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Rice University. He has recently completed the “Leading Product Development” executive seminar at Harvard Business School.

Alex Hooshmand | Partner

Most recently, Alex was Director of Product Management for DoubleClick Inc., an Internet marketing technology and media company. At DoubleClick, his team was responsible for all product management, product development, business development, and mergers and acquisitions related activities in the Global Media Division.

Prior to DoubleClick, Alex was a consultant at the strategy consulting firm Bain & Co. where he worked on projects in a variety of industries including banking, insurance and high technology, concentrating primarily on corporate strategy and Bain’s customer loyalty practice.

Alex received his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was the editor-in-chief of the Wharton Journal. As an undergraduate, he attended Carnegie Mellon University and graduated with a BS in Economics and Industrial Management.

Susan Abdalla | Consultant

Three years at DoubleClick Inc. 1 Year as Director of Product Development working not only on product designs, but also on the process in which DoubleClick design, builds, communicates and implements new products and features. For the 2 years prior, worked on the Media side developing business processes and metrics used to run and grow sales.

Four years at RR Donnelley and Sons. Most time spent working as Product Development and Implementation Manager for several internal production and external customer software products.

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a BS in Industrial Management.

EbTide Consulting also draws upon a network of partner consulting firms for specific client engagements.