The founder’s story
25+ years in trade. Now applied to IT.
Jamal Khan has spent over 25 years running businesses in Mumbai — plastics recycling and trading, mobile-phone retail, and a two-wheeler showroom. Different products, one skill built over and over: knowing what something is actually worth, and dealing with people honestly enough that they keep coming back.
As IT and electronics became a bigger part of every business, the same skill found a new use. Companies needed a reliable way to retire laptops, servers, and hard drives — not just get rid of them, but know exactly what happened to the data on them. That gap is what PrivAce Technologies was built to close.
“An old machine has two things in it: whatever value is left, and whatever data is still on it. We make sure both are handled properly — not just the one that pays.”
Every asset PrivAce collects is logged and tracked. Data is destroyed before anything is resold or reused. Whatever can’t be reused goes to Green Life E-Waste Recycling — our collection and processing partner — for certified, authorised recycling. Not to an informal scrap dealer.
Outside the business, Jamal also runs the Dosti Educational Welfare Society, supporting book-distribution drives and free health camps in the community.
The track record
- 1999 – Present
J.M. Plastics
Plastic scrap trading and recycling — procurement, vendor relationships, logistics.
- 2002 – 2012
Dosti Mobiles
Retail store for handsets and accessories — supplier relationships, inventory, customers.
- 2000 – 2005
Dosti Motors
Two-wheeler showroom — vehicle sourcing, pricing, vendor relationships.
- Today
PrivAce Technologies
Secure IT asset disposition — data destruction, buyback, value recovery, and compliant disposal.