BILT Founders to Speak at DFW Leadership Series

Please mark your calendar for our next DFW Leadership Series event, Thursday, April 13th, during which we will hear a panel discussion from Nate & Gina Henderson and Ahmed & Juliette Qureshi, Founders of BILT Incorporated. BILT is a customer experience platform that provides official 3D interactive instructions with voice, text, and animated guidance for thousands of products from hundreds of brands. The Hendersons and Qureshis, who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will present “White Knuckles & Black Swans: The Fear & Exhilaration of Entrepreneurship.”

Nate Henderson and Ahmed Qureshi grew up together on an American compound in Saudi Arabia in the 1970s. The boys loved scouting in the desert, BMX biking, and soccer. After boarding school, they both attended Brigham Young University, where Nate married Gina Romney and Ahmed wed Juliette Blackhurst. In 1998, they lived next door to each other while Nate and Ahmed earned MBAs from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. 
After graduation, Nate, the engineer, went to work for SAP as a consulting product manager and entered the high-potential leadership training program. Ahmed went into international business, then software sales and entrepreneurship.  
Seventeen years later, the Hendersons were living in Tucson and the Qureshis were in the DC area when Nate won approval to spin the BILT app out of SAP’s Innovation Lab, where it was developed. Ahmed had just returned from an active-duty tour in Afghanistan as a Navy reservist. 
In August 2015, they joined forces to raise capital and found BILT Incorporated in Texas. Gina headed up Marketing & Account Management and Juliette worked in Public Relations and Media Communications. 
More than seven million users have downloaded BILT’s 3D interactive instructions for thousands of products from hundreds of brands. The award-winning app is available in 170 countries and ten languages. BILT Incorporated has been named to Inc. Magazine’s top 1000 fastest-growing companies in America each of the past three years.

The DFW Leadership Series event will be held at 7:00pm at 500 W. McDonwell School Road in Colleyville. All are welcome! The Series is sponsored by the Colleyville Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Please RSVP to the event and invite friends and colleagues on Facebook here. Sign up for email updates about future DFW Leadership Series events here.