Mahboob is Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD and has a particular focus on Social Entrepreneurship. He has written a number of case studies on Asian businesses in the education and training, food services, high tech manufacturing, hospitality, information technology and transportation sectors.

Mahboob is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge Platform. Established in 2000, Knowledge Platform is a leading knowledge solutions company with offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Delhi and Islamabad. The company provides market intelligence research and e-learning solutions for blue chip clients in the corporate, educational, financial services and governmental sectors. In addition to leading the Knowledge Platform team, Mahboob plays a central role in the company's work in designing compliance and risk management training solutions for the financial services industry.

Prior to establishing Knowledge Platform, Mahboob was a partner at the international law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Mahboob spent 11 years handling corporate transactions in the firm's New York office, before establishing the firm's Singapore office in 1997 and managing it through its successful start-up period. Mahboob has broad industry experience and has been lead counsel for many complex transactions in the high-tech, financial services, media, utilities and transportation sectors. He has worked with major clients in implementing mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, corporate and project financings in the United States and many countries of Asia and has handled a number of privatization assignments for The World Bank.

Mahboob received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1986, a Diploma in International and Comparative Law from Columbia University School of Law in 1986, a M.A. in Political Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University in 1981. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1987. He has spoken and presented papers on acquisitions and restructurings, compliance, education and training, effective negotiation, privatization and structured finance at numerous international seminars and conferences.

Together with his wife Samia Ahad, Mahboob is also a Founder and Director of Coriander Leaf, an innovative Singapore-based foods business which includes a restaurant and cooking school.