Zaid Al Husseini

Zaid Al Husseini is an innovative Product Management leader with expertise in building, developing, and leading zero-to-one product teams in mobile, web, and social media products at some of the world's leading internet companies. Currently, Zaid is the founder and CEO of Potato Ventures, a leading eCommerce and internet ventures company.

Previously, Zaid was a Lead Product Manager at Facebook, leading the development of best-in-class social video experiences on Facebook Watch (Facebook's largest video surface). While at Facebook, Zaid led the development of Workplace products focused on the future of decentralized and distributed recruiting. Prior to Facebook, Zaid was the VP of Product at Trip.com (aka Gogobot, acquired in 2017) a Google Editor's Choice award-winning and leading start-up in the travel space. Zaid was also a Senior Product Manager at Zynga, building award-winning social games including Farmville 2: Country Escape.

Earlier in his career, Zaid worked in Strategy at The Walt Disney Company and Deloitte Consulting. Zaid holds an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE in Computer Engineering & Economics from Duke University.