Osman Rashid (born 1970) is a British-born Pakistani-American businessman who is the founder and chief executive officer of Convo Corp. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Chegg. He later co-founded and was CEO of Kno, Inc, a digital education platform company, which was acquired by Intel in 2013. He subsequently founded Galxyz Inc., in 2014.
He is also the co-founder and chairman of SOAR Education, an initiative aimed at expanding access to affordable STEM education in Pakistan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Khoj Resorts, a hospitality company developing eco-conscious resorts in Pakistan. Rashid also serves as chairman of Khan Academy Pakistan, a local initiative of the U.S.-based nonprofit education platform, and chairman of Jaglot Gathering, a forum focused on technology, education, and policy innovation in Pakistan.
Early life Rashid was born in London, did his early schooling in Ghana and finished middle and high school from Islamabad, Pakistan. He later moved to the United States where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University of Minnesota in 1993.
Career Before founding Galxyz, Chegg and Kno, Rashid also started Gravitywell, an ASP based customer service company, and worked at Venturian, a subsidiary of ATIO Corporation, where Osman was VP of Business Development and Marketing. Between start-ups, Osman was Director of Business Development at Chordiant Software, Inc.
Philanthropy Osman helped spearhead Chegg for Good program which plants a tree for every rental made, and to date has helped plant over 6 million trees. At Kno he developed a partnership with DonorsChoose.org to donate $1 of every sale made to help classrooms get school supplies. Osman is actively involved as a board member at ChildLife Foundation Pakistan which is bringing critical care and prevention of diseases to millions of young and needy children in Pakistan through a network of Urgent Care Clinics.
He plans to set up an Endowment Fund to provide quality education to the financially disadvantaged, of which the platform is SOAR STEM Schools.
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