Company · Team
We are engineers, AI specialists, designers and business leaders with backgrounds in artificial intelligence, computer science and software engineering. One conviction brings us together: enterprise software should be intelligent, dependable and a pleasure to use.
Who we are
Across industries, organizations of every size still run on conventional systems that have not yet benefited from artificial intelligence. They do essential work, but they lean on manual steps, ageing technology and workflows that waste people’s time.
We came together to close that gap: to bring AI into the processes organizations already run, and to build a new generation of intelligent applications that speed up operations, reduce human and computational errors, improve decisions and raise productivity. For us, AI should do more than automate repetitive tasks. It should raise the quality of work and make complex operations manageable.
We hold one more belief just as firmly. Great software should be powerful, and also reliable, intuitive and exceptionally well designed. Too many organizations invest heavily in software that disappoints on usability, performance or maintainability. We built Ashkar to do it differently.
How we’re organized
Board of Directors
Ashkar was founded by Mahdi Samei, Saleh Samei, Ali Tishevari and Morteza Taghvaei. Three of the co-founders serve on the board.
Co-founder · Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder · Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder · Head of Marketing
Leadership team
Chief Executive OfficerLeads the company. Holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence specializing in image processing, with more than seven years of software development and architecture experience in backend and machine-learning systems.
7+ yrs
Chief Technology OfficerLeads technology and engineering. Holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence specializing in image and data processing, with more than seven years of software development experience.
7+ yrs
Chief Financial OfficerOversees finance and mentors the business. A product owner and project manager with more than fifteen years of experience, working closely with our product teams.
15+ yrs
Head of Research & DevelopmentLeads research and development across Ashkar. Brings more than twenty-five years of experience in IT, business and industrial applications for the telecommunications and infrastructure sectors.
25+ yrs
Head of MarketingLeads marketing and serves as a product owner, with more than fifteen years of experience connecting what customers need with what our teams build.
15+ yrsLeads our AI work. Holds an MSc and specializes in LLM pipelines, chatbots, and voice and operational agents, with more than six years of experience.
6+ yrsDepartments
Architecture, backend, full-stack and front-end development for every Ashkar product.
LLM pipelines, chatbots, voice engineering and the operational agents behind Najva and Ganjoor.
Exploring new methods and turning them into product capabilities.
Product ownership, project delivery, and interfaces designed for long working days.
Bringing our products to new industries and new markets.
Financial planning, governance and business mentoring as we grow.
Several of us work across more than one team, so some names appear in more than one department.
How we work
Systems structured to stay understandable and maintainable for years, not just until launch.
Dependable software that keeps working under real operational load.
Screens that make complex work clear for the operators, engineers and managers who use them.
Workflows that connect across systems, so people get the job done without fighting the tools.
Careers at Ashkar open soon. Until then, we’re glad to talk with customers, partners and investors about what we’re building.
