Nancy Zayed

Nancy Zayed holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University and has established herself as a prominent figure in the tech industry, currently serving as the Founder and CTO. Her extensive career includes being the Head of Engineering and Operations at innoPath and a founding member of OMA, where she led global engineering teams responsible for developing and shipping products across multiple platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile. At innoPath, she was also accountable for the P&L of OEM & OTA technology client engineering, operations, OEM adoption, and carrier management. As an advocate for women’s empowerment in STEM, she promotes social and economic opportunities for women in the field. Previously, Nancy was the Head of Platform Development at Cisco Systems, overseeing the company’s telepresence product and its secure endpoints for the consumer market. She also led the CDMA mobile technology at Palm, focusing on air-interface agnostic technologies and IP Multimedia Subsystems integration. Nancy spent over a decade at Apple, where she held several technical leadership roles within the organization’s traditional and new operating systems, as well as video engineering areas. Her contributions at Apple were part of the efforts that earned the company its second Emmy, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the Primetime Engineering Award category, recognizing the company’s impact on the television industry.