Lamia Youseff

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I build AI systems and their governance structure at scale. As a Board Director at Stendörren Fastigheter AB (Nasdaq Stockholm) and a board member of the Stanford GSB Alumni Association, I bring AI governance advocacy, organizational change expertise, and deep operating knowledge of AI systems at scale to the boardroom. As an AI Executive in BigTech (Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta), I've spent two decades building the platforms, teams, and strategies that sit behind some of the most complex technical bets in the industry. As a founding member of Google Cloud, I helped build what became an $80B+ ARR platform. At Facebook, I led the ML Platform powering AI across its core products — including the ranking and targeting systems driving billions in ads revenue. At Apple, I ran multi-billion-dollar AI product operations, overseeing 150+ AI/ML engineers and leading privacy-preserving on-device AI at the executive level. At Microsoft, I drove Fortune 500 AI and cloud migrations across some of the world's largest organizations. What ties it together? I build AI systems and their governance structure at scale: platforms, engineering organizations, the operational systems that keep them running under pressure and the governance structure that hold them together. Today I lead JazzComputing, an AI advisory firm focused on technical due diligence for investors and enterprise AI transformation. I also serve as a visiting research affiliate at MIT CSAIL and Stanford University, and lecture on AI technology strategy at Stanford GSB. My research spans 20+ publications, 5+ patents, and 5,000+ citations. My PhD is in computer science (UCSB), with postdoctoral work at MIT and a Master's in Business and Management from Stanford GSB. I'm interested in: board director roles in public companies, executive roles at the intersection of AI, large-scale engineering, and revenue, and in advisory partnerships where technical depth, strategic clarity and structured governance matter. Writing about: What it actually takes to transform an organization with AI, not just adopt it.