Articles by Zia Yusuf

About Zia Yusuf

Zia is currently the CEO of Streetline, the leading global provider of sensor-enabled smart city solutions. Prior to Streetline, Zia was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners; spent ten years at SAP AG where he was executive vice president and a member of SAP’s Executive Leadership Team; was a part of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and 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. Zia holds a MS in International Affairs from Georgetown University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA from Macalester College, and is also an associate consulting professor at Stanford University.

Parking Tech: An Accelerator to the Connected City

After years of imagining, the Internet of Things (IoT) is finally here. The Internet is no longer limited to your laptop or smartphone. It’s connected to your body, regular household items, car, and so forth. Wish you could turn on your lights remotely? Done. Wouldn’t...