Leadership
Our Team
Farrad Ali, Founder
After spending over twenty years in the Fintech and Internet Service Provider (ISP) business sectors, Farrad Ali founded Mende Cybernetics to provide best-in-class IT services and solutions.
Our founder firmly believes that solutions must work well to meet business requirements and that serious commitment must be made to ensure excellence in service execution. Systems thinking is at the core of our IT systems management and services deployment. Our company culture demands excellence in execution, and we recruit members to our teams that share a desire to continuously improve.
In the late 1990s, Farrad Ali founded an Internet Service Provider firm that hosted websites and provisioned internet services to the then-evolving online revolution. Around this time, the buzzword “mission critical” came into the mainstream. His experience implementing mission-critical platforms evolved into a distinct focus on systems architecture, availability, and performance. Coupled with years of providing IT-managed services to financial institutions, best-of-breed solutions were fermented into what has now become a core tenet of Mende Cybernetics. His commitment is to make your business operate at optimal levels respective to your requirements and budget.
Farrad earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Chicago State University, a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Governors State University, and an MBA from Purdue University Northwest. He served as an Adjunct Computer Science Professor at Governors State University for nearly a decade, primarily teaching UNIX and UNIX system programming courses. He is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and an active member of Rotary International.
Farrad shares a passion for helping spread technology to underrepresented areas of the world. He and his wife have also founded a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Ghana that focuses on creating technology resource centers to supplement schools within the local communities. Be sure to check the blog to keep up-to-date on the efforts with the Ghana project.