Abe Nasser, the founder of Rumi Awards, is a San Francisco-based software solution architect and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in technology across industries.
Rumi Awards founded based on the core principles of Rumi to bring unity & love to the world community through a universal theme based on the principles of humanism, arts, media, literature, business, music, fashion and love itself. With a software engineering background, he has founded international multi-million dollar businesses to make the world a better place.

Abe Nasser worked for high-profile technology companies such as Cisco, Intel, Google, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, Fastly, Lumen, and IBM among others, where he was responsible for software engineering, system development, systems integration and sales/training enablement for multi-billion dollar technology partner companies around the globe. Abe’s Super Bowl video streaming project at Fastly in 2019 was a success story for all those millions of viewers who watched the game as well as for the entire Fastly & CBS team.

Abe has a proven track record of success in real estate where he was ranked #2 in sales in the State of Nevada in 2005/2006 within one of the largest real estate companies in the world, RE/MAX. He is the founder of an array of real estate marketplace platforms including GoHighRise.com with over 50,000 units for sale in Turkey alone. His real estate marketplace solution is one of the first AI enabled real estate platforms with end-end workflow automation.
Abe launched Rumi Awards in 2013 to promote love and diversity in the center of world’s entertainment, Las Vegas. Rumi Awards has held over 20 world-class and high-caliber events including business awards, music awards, media awards and fashion awards with close to a million social media followers in 50+ countries. Rumi’s message of love resonates with every background and way of life.

Nasser’s passion in developing AI enabled marketplaces and automating business workflows across industries using artificial intelligence for IT automation and custom business automation solutions are experienced across his ventures around the world. He has achieved over 20 badges and 100s of industry certifications from IBM, Google, Azure, AWS and Salesforce, mostly related to AI & Automation, in the past 2 years alone. Abe was on the 1.5% top IBM learners 2022/2023 and is followed by over a million social media members!

He is the author of Ten Thousands Prayers, and innovator of an array of fast growing AI enabled news & media platforms with 7 million monthly web hits and growing rapidly.