Aisha Riaz

Aisha Riaz is a 24-year-old Personal Branding Strategist and entrepreneur from Karachi, Pakistan, who has rapidly become one of the country's most recognised voices in digital marketing and professional positioning. Originally trained as a Software Engineer — graduating from Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) with a BS in Software Engineering — she made a deliberate pivot from writing code to developing marketing strategies, driven by her 'community-first' philosophy and mastery of organic growth.

In 2024, while still in her 6th semester of university, she founded Bemarque, a personal branding agency helping entrepreneurs, founders, and consultants build organic authority and visibility on LinkedIn. By 2025 she had evolved her role within Bemarque to Lead AI Specialist, building specialised AI teams to automate content creation, distribution, and brand intelligence.

She also previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Glassogon, an innovative AR e-commerce startup. Her impact on the LinkedIn ecosystem is widely recognised: Favikon has ranked her the #1 Marketing Professional in Pakistan up to 13 times by early 2026, and she was listed among Favikon's Top 200 Global Creators in 2024.

As a LinkedIn Top 1% Creator, she has organically grown a following of over 90,000 people. Before launching Bemarque, she held prestigious leadership roles including Marketing Team Lead for the NASA Space Apps Challenge (Fukaya, Japan — remote), Marketing Manager and Best Performance Award recipient at Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC) in 2023, and marketing leadership positions at Women Techmakers, GDG Kolachi, and as Director of Publications at TEDx SMIU.

Beyond tech, she is a published fiction author on Wattpad with four titles accumulating over 30,000 reads. Her session at Jinnah League '24 gave students actionable frameworks for building a compelling LinkedIn presence and turning digital visibility into real career and business outcomes.