McDonough School of Business

Shubber Ali (MBA’94)

Shubber Ali is the CEO and founder of a stealth startup company. Previously, he served as a part of the Accenture leadership team focused on innovation and digital transformation. In his first five-year journey with Accenture, he built “Quantum Leap” (Accenture’s global innovation program) and led the firm’s innovation consulting work in Silicon Valley, serving large corporations globally in developing new ventures and bringing them to market. Also, Shubber was a co-founder, advisor, and angel investor in numerous startup ventures, including an innovative award-winning private equity backed technology company leveraging aerospace technology in the consumer products and informatics space. He is a regularly featured speaker on process and disruptive innovation and strategy topics, and has published numerous articles on topics ranging from innovation to management of core competencies in corporations. Also, Ali serves as a consultant to the World Bank on digital infrastructure in developing markets ,and was recently a member of the digital infrastructure working group for the World Economic Forum.