Seval Oz (VP, Self-Driving Car, Google)

Seval Oz is the New Business Development Manager at Google Inc. She is supporting all business and marketing efforts for Google’s self-driving vehicle’s commercial launch. The far reaching implications of this revolutionary technology hope to change the way we mobilize as a society.

 

As part of new business development responsibilities in Google Knowledge, Seval is working on transparency in Government Elections, specifically spearheading the efforts for the the 2011 national elections in Turkey, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan.

 

Formerly, she was Senior Partner and VP of Finance and Business Development for the Internet search engine, Cuil. While at Cuil, Seval was responsible for business partnerships, strategic funding and internal financial planning for the company. Prior to Cuil, she was VP Finance for Urban Media Communications, responsible for all equity and debt funding requirements.

 

 

Seval was Principal with the NYC based global investment fund of GEM Advisors where she was involved with all aspects of business development and fund management for the international debt and equity fund. Earlier, Seval worked on Wall Street as VP of Equities and managed the Emerging Market Equities Desk for Salomon Inc and Merrill Lynch Global in NYC. She is onthe Advisory Board of HealthCorps®, a national health education program for high schools and Endeavor.Org, a global high-impact entrepreneurship organization based in NYC. She is also a steering committee member of the New York Public Library.

 

 

Seval received her MBA from Wharton Business School, graduating with Distinction, and her BA, cum laude, from Wellesley/M.I.T. in economics and political science.