Zia Chishti

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Muhammad Ziaullah Khan Chishti (né Wilson Lear; born 1971) is a Pakistani-American investor and business executive. He is the co-founder of Align Technology and TRG Global. He is also the co-founder of Afiniti. After starting his career as a Morgan Stanley investment banker, Chishti invented the medical device Invisalign and co-founded Align Technology to market the product in 1997. He was CEO of Align until 2003, when he founded the investment fund The Resource Group. In 2005 he co-founded both Orthoclear and Afiniti, the latter of which develops artificial intelligence for use in customer call centers. Chishti was a named inventor on around 150 issued patents by 2018, and had co-founded three unicorn startup companies. In 2021, he resigned after accusations of sexual harassment and violence in his career were made public.

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