Asia Society Japan Center is delighted to welcome Alex Moazed, Founder and CEO of Applico and co-author of the best-selling book, Modern Monopolies.  In March, Alex joined as a panelist for one of the sessions at Asia Society global board meeting in HK where he spoke of the platform business model dominating this century. It is thought provoking how monopolies have changed.  In this session,  Alex will discuss this thoughts on, “The Next 20 Years of Tech Innovation”.

As the world’s first Platform Innovation® company, Applico provides advisory services to build, execute and scale platform businesses to strengthen traditional companies’ core business. With the release of the book in 2016, Alex and his co-author, Nicholas Johnson coined a new industry focused on platform business.  Take a front row opportunity to hear from the author explaining the infrastructure and techniques required to build a modern and successful tech platform business like Uber and Airbnb. 

BIO

Alex Moazed is the founder & CEO of Applico, and co-author of the best-selling book, Modern Monopolies. At Applico, Alex works with Fortune 500 CEOs and boards to help them build or buy their own platform businesses. Clients include Ford Motor Company, Kloeckner Metals and Reliance ADA Group.

Applico also licenses Platform Insights, the first data set that identifies publicly listed platform companies and tracks their financial performance for investors and researchers to use. Wisdom Tree, a leading ETF creator, has licensed Platform Insights.

Published by Macmillan in 2016, Modern Monopolies examines and analyzes the platform business model dominating the 21st century economy.

Alex speaks about platforms, business transformation and monopoly regulation on media outlets, in publications and conferences. He is a graduate of Babson College.