Kashif Saleem

Kashif Saleem is a Perth-based Australian business leader. He is best known as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saleem Technologies, established in 2006, and the inventor of the software application Track'em. He owns eighteen trademarks registered in Australia, one trademark in the United States, one patent in Australia and other patents pending. He is the author of SharePoint User Guide, first published in 2011 and updated in 2014. He is a winner of Western Australia's "40 under 40" award for high achievement in the business sector at a young age.
Early life
Saleem earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Karachi, Pakistan. He immigrated to Australia in 1998 where he earned an advanced diploma in business administration at the West Coast Institute of Management and Technology in Perth. In 2001, he completed a Bachelor degree in business information systems from Edith Cowan University. By his own account, he came to Australia knowing very little English and worked as an IT Auditor & Analyst Programmer at the West Australia Department of Training while studying.
Track'em
Saleem got the idea for Track'em while working as a contractor at a mine site where he was providing IT support. The project manager complained to him that the company was consistently losing equipment while on site. "I guess that was the lightbulb moment. So I started designing a system to help," Saleem told The Weekend West. He invented Track'em to solve that problem. The software program uses a barcode, global positioning system (GPS), and radio frequency identification tags (RFID) technologies to track the location of industrial equipment and construction materials. This tracking system is then linked to a three-dimensional model of the entire construction site. The program started out under the name ProTracker until Saleem changed the name to Track'em. Beyond that, materials involved in constructing a mine site come from all over the world. An West Australian newspaper notes that the Track'em essentially solves the eternal dilemma of losing your car keys, but on a billion-dollar scale." The Washington Times notes that the success of Track 'Em is tied to the Asian market demand for Australian raw materials. In 2009, Track'em won a Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) grant from the Australian government.
Saleem Technologies
Track'em is owned by Saleem Technologies and continues to be that company's flagship service. Saleem started Saleem Technologies in 2006 as a private company and expanded it to include twenty staff members. and a winner of the International Honour Society's Golden Key award. Through his company, Saleem Technologies, Saleem has made substantial donations to local and worldwide organizations including Breast Cancer West Australia, Cancer Council West Australia, UNICEF, and Save the Children.<ref name="40 under 40" />

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