Named the 2011 Master of Design and a one of the top 40 influential designers by Fast Company, Aza is the founder and CEO of Massive Health, and was until recently Creative Lead for Firefox and a founding member of Mozilla Labs. In 2012, he was named to both Inc and Forbes 30-under-30. Aza has founded and sold two companies, including Songza.com which is currently one of the top music apps on the app store. He also creates modular cardboard furniture called Bloxes which are used everywhere from Google to Twitter.

In another life, Aza has done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated in math and physics.