After a stretch as a journalist working for state and private broadcasters, Syed Ali served as the Program Director of PRIME between 2016 and 2019. He moved on to leadership positions at construction IT startup Banjaiga.com, and Rawalpindi’s oldest privately funded non-profit, the Saba Orphan care Trust. He is an Alumnus of NUST Business School, the International Akademie of Leadership and the Atlas Leadership Academy.