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Tarik Fadli, married with 3 children, born in Rabat Morocco on April 29, 1980 to Idriss Fadli, University Professor and Fatima Zohra Snouci, Attorney at law and women rights activist.

Tarik is the eldest of two brothers and two sisters, he grew up and went to public schools in the small town of Ben Slimane Morocco; Ecole Lala Hassna, College Ziad and Lycee Hassan II where he graduated high school as an average student in Experimental Sciences.

His passion for computers started at the age of 14, after high school, he went to Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood Colorado USA, then to the University of Colorado at Denver where he majored in Computer Science and Engineering, then later in his career to Oxford, Salford and American University in Dubai. His IT career started at the age of 18 years old at these schools as a Computer Lab Assistant, a Math Tutor and a Computer Programming Instructor. He also compiled more than 11 IT certificates. His first professional innovation was in 1999 (He was 19 years old). He wrote a software to digitize access to College Learning and Resources Centers by tracking student sin-on and sign-off to generate reporting. This software helped the school maintain statistics of usage in order to sustain State public funding.

His reputation as the schools most promising geek got him a job offer in 2000 as a Software Engineer and IT Coordinator at CTL THOMPSON INC in Denver Colorado at the age of 20. He was promoted to IT Manager & Solutions Architect at the age of 23. His second innovation was a field tablet software to help civil & materials engineering technicians enter data and perform calculations on site. (Article was first publish in the Denver Post). He became a shareholder and won an award of outstanding services. He left for a new startup called National Student Loan (Ardent Financial) as CTO where he built a team that developed a state of the art student loan procurement and management system in a record time of 7 months. This platform booked over $175 Million in loans volume in less than a year. In 2007, Microsoft Middle East and African hired him as the Lead Solutions Architect in the region where he was the youngest architect at Microsoft (27). He chose to be based in Casablanca instead of Dubai or Istanbul. After few months at Microsoft, he left to launch his first startup ALGO Consulting Group in his birth city the capital of Morocco Rabat, with a small capital of DH 10 000 ($1000) and one employee, to reach 60 employees, a capital of DH 2.8 Million. The company delivered many innovative IT solutions for several countries like Libya, Mauritania and especially Morocco's taalim.ma that sends High School Graduation results to all Moroccan students. Almoubadaralakoum.ma Morocco's first cloud based e-Participation platform that encourages democratic citizen contribution to public policy. This system helped morocco win more than 30 places to be ranked 17th worldwide in e-Participation. The largest projects ALGO Consulting Group signed was with Morocco's national railroad company ONCF where that developed and maintained the ticketing systems for years and in 2013 ALGO Consulting Group along with a local partner won against France's SNCF. The tender was to develop Morocco's TGV ticketing system for over $17 Million. During his 10 years as a digital entrepreneur, Tarik Fadli won over 10 innovation awards and was the object of many newspaper, magazine articles as well as TV and Radio inverviews. A German investment magazine called him the "Steve Jobs of Morocco". His ideas and theories on how simple and elegant solutions that combine IoT, AI, Blockchain and Biometrics can solve over 30 societal issues for Morocco and Africa. He was nominated Best Young Entrepreneur in 2015 and was selected by Endeavor the same year as High Impact Entrepreneur. Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017 and his second startup La Marocaine des e-Services was ranked 4th over 25 0000 startups at Startup Istanbul 100. He is acting president and CEO of ALGO GROUP holding with ALGO Consulting, La Marocaine des e-Services and Ajiel Systems. He is considered a source of inspiration to many young students and entrepreneurs. He is invited to many conferences to speak and share his success story and experience. In December 2017 he was designated by Morocco's Head of Government, Saad Eddine El Othman, as an Expert and Member of the Board of the newly created National Agency for Digital Development.

Outspoken, Tarik Fadli is solicited by political parties as well as multinational and national companies for hire or affiliation. He is known to be open minded, with no political agenda or preferences. He lacks a sens of diplomacy, as he is a straight shooter and is not afraid of saying what he thinks even if it is offensive. He is also controversial as far as Moroccan culture goes, because he is considered a "non-conformist", he is constantly challenging the status quo when it comes to technology's role in society and in doing business.