
His smartphone chat idea arrived before its customers were ready. Ashhad Syed found a more durable problem in the unanswered enquiry - and built ApexChat, now Blazeo, around helping businesses respond.

Long before he joined product, engineering, and marketing under one title at Blazeo, Khan was an engineer impatient with theory that never met the real world. His career has been a decades-long attempt to close that gap.