IE Brown Executive MBA

Technology advisor and delivery executive with over 20 years’ worth of experience and insight gained building, selling, and executing business technology transformation engagements to help customers optimize IT, innovate with agility, and improve business performance. Digital transformation and technology strategist with Microsoft’s Higher Education organization; Professor of Information Systems & Technology at San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) and IE Business School; and a researcher in Information Systems and Digital Platform Ecosystems. 

With Microsoft, Yasalde is extremely passionate about helping customers make sound and sustainable technology decisions and investments. Leading and shaping technology and digital transformation agenda for our Higher Education customers and supporting their strategic alignment to ensure IT investments are aligned to organizational strategies. This involves partnering with senior leaders to enable new educational and operating models, optimize resources and maximize IT investments, reimagine their student and customer experiences, create a culture of data-driven decision making, and transform the institution’s strategic directions and value proposition.