Profile

Ali Elouafiq, is the Program Manager – Accelerator and Business Development, at the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, where he is “bootstrapping” the first Social Business Accelerator in North Africa.
Ali works on very advanced methodologies and models that enables fast growth, high impact, with limited resources.

When Ali was student at Al Akhawayn University, where he pursued his Bachelor of Computer Science, he founded his first Startup “BlueSkySecurity”, which was a Freelance Hub for Ethical Hackers in Moroccan Universities. Ali and his team were able to work with leading local companies ONCF, SNRT, MASEN, as well as Fortune 500 companies such as Salesforce.

Prior to joining MCISE, Ali was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Omnidata to help new startup like projects of the Group, as well as he was advising and mentoring many local leading startups such as Kezakoo, Loolys, and NewWorkLab.

Ali holds many awards from NASA, Innov’IT, StartupWeekend, and StoneHenge Awards, and published various pioneering research works, the most striking was the Aggressive and Intelligent Self-defensive Networks architecture.

Ali’s aim is to lead a decentralized internet where people use power of technology as an impact force to make a better world.