Maziar Adl is Co-founder and CTO of Gocious, a product management platform for manufacturers that empowers better product innovation for industries that include auto/mobility, industrial equipment, and high tech, where he oversees end to end design, implementation, and development of products.
A strategic leader with a record for spearheading the successful design and rollout of medium to large scale technology roadmaps and transformation, Maziar has played a pivotal role in the creation of Gocious’ cloud-based product decision analytics platform since he co-founded the company in 2018. More recently, Maziar has spent time optimizing analytics within the Gocious platform and honing the company’s marketing and sales strategies.
For the vast majority of his career, Maziar has been dedicated to information management and finding ways to improve the long term performance of organizations and teams he comes across using better, accessible and timely information. Prior to Gocious, Maziar was SVP and CTO for UK&I Consumer Services at Experian, where he successfully executed one of the largest transformations in the company’s history to enable innovation in new markets and to speed up the product development process. Before Experian, Maziar spent time as a consultant for KPMG where he focused on e-commerce and internet based solutions and worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, hi-tech and retail. Prior, he also held roles at Mammut Group and Zinnote.
Maziar graduated from Sharif University of Technology, dubbed the MIT of Iran, with a bachelor’s in industrial engineering, and received a master’s in information and operations management from University of Southern California.
Maziar is a big believer in continuous learning and has always been keen on learning new aspects of business and technology. His mantra is that a great team is not one that knows everything on day one but one that can learn and adapt every day.
Maziar currently resides with his wife Soheila, son Aydeen and labradoodle Pasha in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County, California.