Sumaya Kazi

Kazi has practiced an Intermittent Fasting lifestyle since 2015. She has written a popular how-to guide on her Intermittent Fasting schedule and how she lost over 55 pounds as a result. She has been interviewed by Quartz Magazine, HVMN, and Inc Magazine about her success with Intermittent Fasting.

In April 2011, Sumaya founded Sumazi, the social intelligence platform used by brands, celebrities and enterprises. Sumazi was a finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, where it won the Omidyar Network award for "Startup Most Likely to Change the World."

She attended the University of California, Berkeley graduating in 2004 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Business. While a student, Kazi worked at the University Human Rights Centers on campus under the leadership of Professor Eric Stover, transcribing interviews of war-torn victims from Bosnia and Croatia. Kazi, along with her team, won first place in the Haas School of Business Cisco & Deloitte E-Business case competition, which served as a catalyst for her career in technology.

Sumaya Kazi (Bengali: সুমাইয়া কাজী, born July 17, 1982) is an American entrepreneur. At the age of 23, Kazi founded her first company The CulturalConnect. She later founded and was the CEO of San Francisco-based technology company Sumazi, a social intelligence platform used by brands, celebrities and enterprises. Kazi held one of the first social media management positions at a Fortune 500 company leading social media at Sun Microsystems until its acquisition by Oracle.

Kazi was born in Hollywood, California in 1982 and grew up in Moreno Valley, California. She started taking college courses at Riverside Community College at the age of 11, advancing in mathematics while attending Landmark Middle School.