Tahir Mansoori

Tahir Mansoori is the CEO and Co-Founder of colwiz, a start-up company from the University of Oxford that provides reference management and collaboration software to the research community and innovative publishing solutions to the publishing industry. colwiz Publisher Solutions enable publishers and learned societies to better engage with their communities of authors, editors and members.

Tahir holds a BS in Computer Science, a Masters in Information Management and founded colwiz as he was pursuing a PhD in Computational Biology at the University of Oxford. Prior to setting up his own company, Tahir worked as a software engineer, product manager and software architect in the financial, healthcare and publishing sectors. Having worked closely with publishers and scholarly societies, Tahir holds key insights into the disruptions and challenges of a competitive publishing landscape.