Asad leads Brink’s venturing practice, working to fund, test and scale new ideas that can solve big global challenges. As Experimentation Lead at EdTech Hub, Asad led the design of EdTech Sandboxes: small clusters of schools or communities where governments, startups, grassroots organisations and funders test and gather evidence on new ideas in real-world ‘Sandbox’ environments. Over the last 4 years, Asad has led Sandboxes testing the potential of community-based educational radio in northern Uganda, developing behavioural interventions to improve equality of usage of personalised learning software in Kenya, and teacher-centred virtual learning environments in Zanzibar.