Rafat Ali
CEO/Founder, Skift. Perpetually exhausted dad of three hyperactive kids
- Role
- CEO Founder at Skift
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rafat Ali
Rafat is the CEO/Founder of Skift, the largest business media intelligence and marketing company in travel, providing news, information, data, and services to all sectors of the world’s largest industry. Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK\'s Guardian News and Media in 2008, and left in 2010. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter. Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.
Experience
CEO Founder
Dec 2011 — Present · New York, NY, US
Skift is the largest industry intelligence platform providing MEDIA, INSIGHTS and MARKETING to key sectors of travel. Skift deciphers and defines global travel trends for marketers, strategists and technologists in the global travel industry.Check out: http://Skift.com.
Education
Aligarh Muslim University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Tech)
1992 — 1996
Indiana University Bloomington
Masters
1999 — 2000
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