Laila Abudahi

Laila Abudahi is the Co-Founder and President of Manara, bringing a wealth of experience in system and software engineering from roles at NVIDIA, where Laila served as both Senior System Software Engineer and System Software Engineer, and Palo Alto Networks as a Dataplane Software Engineer. Early career experience includes a firmware engineering internship at Plugable Technologies and a position as ICT Program Officer at PITA. Laila holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, completed in 2016, and participated in a non-degree program focused on Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business in 2013.