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Hafiz Kanji

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Managing Director - AI Enablement at Competitive Scale
📍 Canada

Hafiz is the Founder of Competitive Scale, where he transforms data into strategic assets for startups. He advises executive teams on data strategy, scalable infrastructure, and AI-powered solutions to drive growth. He has studied Data Science at MIT and Agile Project Management at the University of Toronto.

Outside of his professional focus on data and AI, Hafiz has a background in community leadership, having served as President of the Ismaili Student Association during his time at York University. His university activities also included participation in the Dodgeball Team, Economics Club, and York Investment Club.

He once built a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a founder with no engineers or budget, using only AI tools like ChatGPT.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Managing Director - AI Enablement
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Canada
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AI-Powered Growth
Helps venture-backed startups deploy AI and machine learning to improve revenue, segmentation, and forecasting, turning data into a core business driver.
Modern Data Strategy
Partners with executive teams to architect and implement modern data infrastructure using technologies like Snowflake, dbt, and Looker to enable scale.
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Work history

1-2024
Managing Director - AI Enablement
Competitive Scale
7-2025
AI Advisor
Primary Venture Partners
8-2019
AI/Data/Growth Advisor
Techstars
4-2024 - 8-2025
Vice President, Data, AI & Analytics
DealMaker
8-2021 - 12-2023
Head of Product - AI enabled Data
AlphaLayer
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Education
2019
Data Science and Big Data Analytics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015 - 2015
Agile Project Management
University of Toronto
2015
Software Development Bootcamp
General Assembly Canada
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