Hatim Tyabji holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. in International Business. He is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University of New York.
Tyabji serves on the boards of Best Buy (NYSE), Datacard Group, eFunds (NYSE), Merchant eSolutions, Jasper Systems, DepotPoint, and TAFMO.

Tyabji was founding chairman and CEO of Saraide, whose mission was to drive the convergence of the Internet and wireless telecommunications. (1998-2000)

While chairman and CEO of VeriFone, market capitalization grew from $30 million to approximately $1.5 billion. (1986-1998)

He held several positions at Sperry Corporation, the last one being president, Information Systems?the number-three position in the 77,000-person company. (1973-1986)