Despite a wildly successful high school acting career in Jordan, Hala found her passion for technology in her first C++ class at UCLA. She has over 15 years of experiences as a technology executive, having built, scaled and advised engineering organizations at both small startups and large internet companies such as Yahoo!, MySpace and Verizon Digital Media Services. Hala loves driving product vision through to implementation, building a healthy, agile, data-driven engineering culture, and walking up tall mountains.