Issam Hijazi is a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian entrepreneur and technologist and the founder and CEO of UpScrolled. He has spent a significant part of his career in technology and leadership roles at global companies, including IBM, Oracle, and Hitachi, before launching a social platform that places user control and policy transparency at the heart of its experience. The platform displays posts from followed accounts in chronological order and uses clear engagement and content-recency signals in its discovery space. Hijazi focuses on technology ethics and building independent digital products from the region that serve people.