Welcome to Mindmix
I founded Mindmix in 2017 on the back of my experiences at Amazon and Microsoft Xbox -
and was passionate about sharing my expertise and time with scaling
businesses. I know that technology is moving at incredible speed - and it is highly beneficial to
have deep and impartial expertise to help guide your scaling journey.
Why choose Mindmix?
- We are outcome focused and measure our success via your satisfaction
- All work is done, overseen and delivered by senior practitioners
- We have vast know how across multiple tech stacks, domains and types of businesses from e-commerce to healthcare
- Operators as well as advisors. Not consultants.
- Our insights are independent,pragmatic and custom to you- delivered at speed and high quality
1. Discovery and diagnostics
Looking for an independent and impartial review of the technology, processes and strategy? we specialise in delivering a pragmatic and fast analysis and report in as as little as 9 days.
2.Mentoring and Coaching
We like to grow, coach and mentor your existing leaders to become even more amazing for your future business and help implement any recommendations. If needed we can augment your team with additional expertise.
3.Fractional and advisory CTO
Implement actions and insights with the deep expertise of a highly tenured CTO. Support, guidance and transparency all the way.
Founding team
I am a product, technology and operations leader with 20 years’ experience leading complex technology transformations across a multitude of organisations including Amazon, Microsoft, New Corporation, Lloyds Bank as well as multiple venture and PE backed scaleups.
Before founding Mindmix in 2017, I was a global engineering leader for Amazon Prime video, overseeing a global build and
scale of a complex technology stack across 200+ countries. Prior to Amazon I was a founding member of Microsoft Xbox TV and video
streaming studio in London – where I drove new business partnerships with significant media organisations such as Sky and Canal+.
At Lloyds Bank I was chief platform and Technology officer overseeing a complex bank wide operating model transformation.
But it's not just about the big global organisations. I also have experience at smaller PE and VC backed firms on a rapidly scaling journey - including exited and acquired businesses. Based in London,my experience also includes pre and post deal due diligence assessments to help inform my decision-making - with value from data and technology being key.
I have strong cross-sector B2B and B2C, cross-functional and broad geographical experience. I hold a bachelors degree in Business, and a master’s degree in Computing Science, where I was a scholarship winner from the Engineering and Physical sciences research council (EPSRC) as well as a patent holder based on video streaming technology pioneering work done at Microsoft.
Testimonials
"When it comes to technology, Ijaz is always my first point of call. Ijaz has the ability to make you think ambitiously about technology to help your company grow quickly, whilst also remaining realistic and strategic about how and when to bring technology solutions on-board. He understands how technology can support businesses at every level of development - from idea generation through to start-up, scale and beyond. His experience in working for established global platforms has put him in good stead to help other emerging businesses scale and grow. We are lucky to have his experience and advice at hand."
Sophie Rochester - CEO and founder, Yodomo
"Ijaz came in as Interim CTO at Crowdcube to help us 'for 3 or 4 months' to provide tech leadership and help recruit a full time CTO. He quickly made a huge impact on the business using his experience at top tech companies to provide a very calm and reassuring guiding hand over the management of the tech side of our business. He ended up staying for 10 months as we valued him so much!"
Darren Westlake - CEO and co-founder,Crowdcube
Contact
Please get in touch or come and see us !
Our Address
1 Warwick Street London W1B 5LR
37-41 Mortimer Street Fitzrovia, London W1T 3JH