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WASHINGTON DC:
US President Joe Biden appointed Dilawar Syed, a Pakistani-American, to perform as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA).

As per a statement released from the White House on Wednesday shared the appointment.

Dilawar Syed turned to Twitter to thank the US President, he wrote,

“I’m deeply humbled & honored by President Biden’s nomination of me to help lead @SBAgov as the Deputy Administrator,” said Syed, ratifying the news on Twitter the following day.

Syed also said that, “If confirmed by the US Senate, I will put my heart & soul into helping small businesses everywhere in these challenging times.”

The White House, according to statement, Syed has done MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Pakistani-American immigrated to the US from Pakistan as a freshman student to attend The College of Wooster in Ohio.

He currently performs as the president and chief executive officer of Lumiata, an “AI for healthcare company concentrated on lessening healthcare expenses and expanding patient consequences, according to a statement.

Syed was formerly the president at Freshworks where he served in scaling the software company’s products to thousands of small and medium-scale businesses.

The announcement also asserted that Syed had a history of furthering civic efforts “at the federal, state, and local level concentrating on economic growth and entrepreneurship”.

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