Arash Tayebi: Arash is co-founder and CEO of Kara Technologies. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Auckland. Lossing hearing in one ear in 2017 made Arash interested in the Deaf community and their problems. This experience was the impetus to form Kara. He recognises himself as a problem solver, with a passion to provide scalable solutions for the challenges of the modern world. He received the University of Auckland Blue Award for Innovation in 2019 and was recognized as one of the University of Auckland’s 40 Under 40 alumni in the Disruptors and Innovators category. Arash is a fellow at Edmund Hillary Fellowship.