Management Team

Zia is a seasoned senior technology executive with a track record of leading companies to success. He is currently CEO of Streetline Inc., the leading global provider of senor enabled smart city solutions.  Just prior to his role leading Streetline, Zia was Entreprenuer-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.  He spent the last ten years at SAP AG where he was executive vice president and a member of SAP’s Executive Leadership Team. At SAP, he led the company’s efforts in key areas, including co-founding SAPMarkets, a B2B marketplace company; founding and leading the SAP global corporate strategy team and its Design Services Team; and, most recently, as head of the global ecosystem and partner group, where he managed a network of 7,500 partners, award winning SAP online communities of innovation and the $125 mm SAP Netweaver Fund.  Prior to SAP, Zia was part of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions. Previously, he 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 has a MS in International Affairs from Georgetown University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA from Macalester College. He is also an associate consulting professor at Stanford University, where he taught “Experiences in Software Design” with Terry Winnograd and Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP and is currently co-teaching “Designing Liberation Technologies” with Profs. Terry Winnograd & Joshua Cohen.  Zia is also an advisor to several start-ups and is an actively involved board member of non-profit institutions focused on education in South Asia and social entrepreneurship in East Africa.

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Manny is an accomplished executive leader who brings deep expertise in finance, operations and business strategy. He has held executive positions, or served as a strategic advisor, at a variety of private and publicly-traded technology companies including Command Audio, Dexterra, Echopass, Everdream, Luxtera, Silicon Optix and Southwall. His industry experience spans various fields ranging from semi conductors to mobile telephony software and renewable energy. He has worked extensively with many top-tier Venture Capital firms including Canaan Partners, Polaris Ventures, NEA, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Interwest Partners, JP Morgan Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures and August Capital, among others. Prior to his work with technology companies, Manny was Group Vice President of BNP Paribas’ Leveraged Finance Group focusing on M&A and structured finance transactions. Manny was also co-founder of China Solar Power, China’s first thin film photovoltaic solar module manufacturer.

Pete joins Streetline with more than fifteen years of senior management in the enterprise software industry. For the past decade, Pete has driven $50 million-plus revenue objectives for world class organizations like PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAP. Most recently Pete was vice president and general manager for Infor’s $60 million public sector group, a leader in asset management solutions for local government. Pete holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University.

Ken brings over twenty years of technology sales and marketing leadership to Streetline. Previously, Ken was the executive vice president of sales and marketing for Certain Software, a international software as service (SaaS) company that provides event management technology to the Global 2000. As co-founder of Spear Technologies, a leading enterprise, asset management company specializing in the public transportation industry, he held key executive positions, including vice president of sales for marketing and business development. Ken also served as the vice president of sales and marketing for Enlighten Software, taking the company public in a successful IPO. As vice president and general manager for SHL Systemhouse, he was part of the management team that grew revenues from $15 million to $1 billion.

Mike McEvoy is a seasoned C-level executive with deep experience building successful startups and running global technology organizations. At Adobe Systems, Mike was responsible for the entire imaging and video product engineering team, and at Johnson & Johnson he was a member of the Office of CIO and responsible for their major web presence, Babycenter. Mike has also been in CEO, COO, CTO and executive positions at companies including ArborText, Icarian, Rearden Commerce, and QuickTrac. Mike began his career developing advanced robotic systems at Cybotech which were used to manufacture components for the Space Shuttle, aircraft, and Catapillar tractors. Mike is an avid pilot, member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, and graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Jim has been involved in sensor networks since the inception of the field. In ten years as a researcher and area manager at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly the Xerox PARC), he worked on sensor networks ranging from low-powered, collaborative environment sensors to more complex, acoustic, and video sensors for human and vehicle tracking, managing projects for Xerox, Fujitsu, and DARPA. Jim holds an MS in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in aeronautical and astronautical engineering (space avionics) from MIT. He is a seven-time winner of PARC and Lockheed Martin technical and team excellence awards, holds four patents (with twenty-three pending), and is the author of numerous technical publications.

Kelly joins Streetline from SAP AG, where she was a member of the company’s senior leadership team and served as Vice President, Global Communications. In this role, Kelly held global responsibility for all product and solutions-related communications and served as a trusted advisor to the Board and senior executive team on a range of issues, including product launches and global company events, crisis communication, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Kelly was also responsible for communication for SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe. With more than 18 years of marketing and communications experience, Kelly has held various leadership roles with global companies including Symantec, VERITAS, and USWeb/CKS. Kelly also brings deep agency experience from Cunningham Communication and Think*Aloud, Inc. where she served clients including @Home, CenterBeam, Cisco, and Satmetrix. Kelly is a member of the International Parking Institute, National Parking Association, and Women in Transportation. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University.

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Mark has been working with low-power sensing technology for over fifteen years, and he co-founded Streetline to leverage low-power sensor design, mesh networking, and web technology to deliver valuable applications to cities. He is the chief architect of Streetline’s patent-pending vehicle sensing technology. Prior to Streetline, he was founder and CEO of muNetix, where he commercialized and licensed high efficiency power supply designs for the consumer market. He has received numerous awards for design and innovation, holds four patents, and is the author of many technical publications. Mark earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a BSEE from the University of Toronto.