Maz Nadjm

Who is Maz Nadjm?

Maz Nadjm is a social media professional and Founding Director of SoMazi; a consultancy specializing in monetization and amplification of corporate social media programmes. In 2012, Forbes named Nadjm as one of the world’s top 50 social media power influencers.

In 2004, Nadjm set up 2Bmates, one of the UK’s first social networks, followed in 2006 by Rareface, one of the UK’s first social media agencies. In 2007, he joined BSkyB as Senior Online Community Product Manager. In 2010, Nadjm was hired as UK Head of Social Media for Ogilvy Group. Ogilvy is one of the largest and most influential communications groups in the UK. They say to be UK’s leading integrated advertising and marketing communications agency

In 2010, Nadjm was asked to join a select research team at Oxford University’s Business School to address the subject of ‘Social Media and Innovation.’ Nadjm is regularly asked to appear at seminars, conferences and on TV, including Bloomberg and RTE.

He has been a judge and advisory board member for the Shorty Awards since 2009, a research team member at Oxford University’s Business School since 2010, and a start-up mentor with Seedcamp and UCL’s SMILE initiative since 2011. UCL is one of London's leading multidisciplinary universities. Nadjm also serves as an advisory board member for the Social Media Week and SMWF events.