Zia Yusuf

I am currently CEO of Streetline Inc. the leading global provider of senor enabled smart city solutions. Just prior to this role leading Streetline, I was Entreprenuer-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. The last ten years at SAP AG where I was executive vice president and a member of SAP’s Executive Leadership Team and led the company’s efforts in key areas, including co-founding SAPMarkets, a B2B marketplace company; founding and leading the SAP global corporate strategy team and its Design Services Team; and, most recently, as head of the global ecosystem and partner group, where I managed a network of 7,500 partners, award winning SAP online communities of innovation and the $125 mm SAP Netweaver Fund. Prior to SAP, I was part of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where I worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions. Previously, I worked on health sector issues in Southern Africa, as well as project and structured finance in South Asia and Indochina, at the World Bank Group.

I have an MS in International Affairs from Georgetown University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA from Macalester College. Also currently an associate consulting professor at Stanford University, where he taught “Experiences in Software Design” with Terry Winnograd and Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP and is currently co-teaching "Designing Liberation Technologies" with Profs. Terry Winnograd & Joshua Cohen. Having fun being an advisor to several start-ups and am actively involved as a board member of non-profit institutions focused on education in South Asia and social entrepreneurship in East Africa. Have been profiled extensively in leading business and technology publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, FastCompany, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, VentureBeat etc. and featured in national television and radio stations such as CNN, MSNBC, KLIV Radio, and CNBC.