Streetline appoints Zia Yusuf as President & CEO

Streetline, Inc. a global leader in wireless sensor enabled smart city solutions announced today that veteran SAP senior executive Zia Yusuf has joined the compay as President & CEO, while founder Tod Dykstra has moved to fill a key position as Vice President Product Management and Services.
Prior to joining Streetline, Mr. Yusuf served as Executive Vice President at SAP AG and a member of the companys Executive Leadership Team. Most recently he founded and led SAPs Global Ecosystem & Partner Group where he was chartered with building and enabling an open ecosystem of software, technology, services and channel partners as well as the award winning SAP online Community Network. Before joining SAP, Yusuf was with the investment banking division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he worked on M&A and corporate finance transactions. Before that he was with the World Bank Group working on health care issues in Southern Africa and infrastructure projects in South Asia & Indochina. Mr. Yusuf holds an MS in International Relations from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is also an Associate Consulting Professor at the Stanford University School of Design (the D School).

Leveraging sensor networks to connect the physical world to smart applications that can be used by companies, cities and consumers is now a reality and has the potential to change how people work and live, said Yusuf. I am delighted to join the Streetline team and look forward to extending the companys technology leadership as we explore new ways to provide value to our customers both in the US and worldwide.

I am pleased to welcome a seasoned executive like Zia to Streetline, said Dykstra. Our proven technology and customer success provides Streetline the platform to accelerate to the next level of growth and I am looking forward to working with Zia and the rest of the Streetline team as we embark on this journey.

About Streetline

Streetline designs and operates ultra low power sensor networks that communicate with physical objects and environments to provide a revolution in infrastructure management. The companys web based and mobile solutions leverage sensor enabled real time information to deliver a suite of workforce management, policy and consumer applications.

With current deployments in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angles, Sausalito the companys smart parking management system combines parking sensors, parking meter networking and applications to deliver next generation solutions for cities and consumers. Streetline plans to build on its success and expand to additional city and private enterprise customers (eg. universities, corporate and hospitals) and leverage its sensor based application suite to deliver value in other critical use cases.

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