Adnan Mahmud is the founder and CEO of LiveStories - a Seattle-based startup building data tools for non-data people, simplifying data analysis, visualization, and presentation for everyone. LiveStories is being used by governments and large nonprofits, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, government of Nigeria, and county health departments in California, to make smarter decisions. 

Prior to LiveStories, he founded and grew Jolkona.org a crowdsourcing platform that provide impact reports for every donation. He also worked 8 years in Microsoft where he managed the two biggest data pipeliness for the company, obtaining few patents around data analysis and visualization, and ran incubation projects in Microsoft Research, contributing technologies to major Microsoft products like Office, Windows, XBOX Kinect, and Bing. 

Adnan is an envoy for US State Department for social entrepreneurship and youth leadership, speaking at university campuses around the world. He has been featured on TED, CNN, NPR, and Seattle Times and he is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.