Khuram Zaman is the CEO of Fifth Tribe , a leading digital agency serving the Washington DC Metropolitan Area based out of the 1776 startup co-working Space. In his professional capacity, he has provided product development and digital strategy services to clients as diverse as the Department of Defense, Kaiser Permanente, Oxfam America, and ADL. His writing has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Technical.ly.
Press & Recognition
- 2020: Featured in Episode 3 of PBS Mini-Series “Niall Ferguson’s Networld” (Clip , Full Film )
- 2020: Top 70 RealLIST Connectors (Technical.ly DC )
- 2019: Above-and-Beyond Mentor Award (Georgetown Entrepreneurship Summer Launch)
- 2018: "Crystal City-Based Fifth Tribe Works to Craft Innovative Digital Approaches" (ARL Now )
- 2017: “He Bought the Domain of a Famous Terrorist. Then He Rigged It to Combat Extremism.” (The Washington Examiner )
- 2017: 1st Place September Dataset Competition – “ISIS Use of Religious Texts.” (Kaggle)
- 2017: “ISIL Messaging Still Potent Despite US Efforts.” (WTOP )
- 2016: Best performing dataset – “How ISIS Fanboys Uses Twitter.” (Kaggle)
- 2014: 1st Place Hackathon Winner (Hedaya CVE Expo)
Startup Mentorship
In his free time, Khuram has mentored entrepreneurs in the US, Italy, Denmark, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, and Pakistan through programs like the Peace Tech Accelerator , the Halycon Incubator , Georgetown University's Summer Launch, Legacy International, and TechCamp .
Certifications & Fellowships
Khuram is certified in Design Thinking (IDEO 2019), Agile Scrum (Scrum Alliance 2017), and Marketing Strategy (Cornell 2015). He is a 10,000 Small Businesses Fellow (Goldman Sachs 2018) and Emerging Leaders Fellow (Small Business Administration 2016).
Education
Khuram graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (2005) and from Widener University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate (2008).