Leon Zhao

Senior Director, Business Operations

Leon Zhao currently serves as Senior Director of Business Operations at Upwork, a position held since May 2024. Prior to this role, Leon was Vice President of Operations at Leap AI and Vice President of Technology Operations at BlackLine, overseeing critical teams and processes within Product & Technology. Experience at SAP SuccessFactors as Senior Director involved acting as Chief of Staff to the CTO while shaping engineering strategies. Leon has also held managerial positions at PwC and EY, focusing on cloud strategy and technology advisory projects, and began a successful career at Accenture as a Strategy Consultant. An engineering manager at Morningstar, Leon played a key role in developing a retirement investment robo-advisor. Earlier career highlights include serving as Director of Technology at Vibes and IT Consultant at Whitehall Co Ltd. An educational background includes an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and advanced degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Northwestern University.

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