Sumaiya Noor
Chief Product Officer
Mpowa
Sumaiya has 15+ years of experience in diverse leadership roles including Product Management, AI, Digital Transformation and Talent. She has won many accolades throughout her career and has been honored as 40under40.
She made it to the list of Top 20 global Product Leaders of 2023 and she is recognized as Top 100 most influential women of Canada. She is on Claro Top 100 AI & Tech Leaders list and is honored by Global Recognition Awards. Sumaiya also won Chief Product Officer of the year 2024 by PLA.
She has been in multiple Product Development, AI & Product Strategy roles throughout her career. Currently she is CPO at an AI and Web3.0 company. Prior to that she served as CPSO and earlier she was VP of HR & Digital Transformation. She has also worked with Telenor enabling them with their digital transformation. At IBM, she had 3 global roles and in her last role she led Tech M&A deals across 50+ countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. As part of executive team, she has closed millions of dollars of funding.
Sumaiya is also a graduate of IBM Leadership Program. She is a Startup Advisor, Fulbright scholar, certified AI PM & an Engineer with experience of managing cross-functional teams across 6 continents with Fortune100 multinationals and startups. She serves on HBR Council, WEF AI Council and is on Canadian Web3.0 Committee. Sumaiya collaborates with UofT for advising startups on AI, Ethical implementation of AI, Product, Technology and Healthcare domains.
She is also a published author in
high-impact peer reviewed journals. Her areas of interest are AI based Product
Development, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, Machine
Learning/Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Computational Biology.
She speaks frequently at multiple forums globally. Sumaiya has spoken at US State Department with delegates from 47 countries including US Congress members. Also gave a talk at Grace Hopper Conference to 30K technologists worldwide. Sumaiya has also been a Keynote speaker at UofT and at several industry events including Google DevFest. Her work and impact has been covered by national and global media including Al Jazeera.
Outside work, Sumaiya is a staunch supporter of women and human rights,
education and health for underprivileged individuals and Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion. She loves travelling, learning new things especially technology and
history, meeting people from diverse backgrounds and experiencing new cultures.
She is also a practicing Naturopath and a singer for more than a decade.
sumaiyan@gmail.com