Umar Riaz

North America Consulting Lead | North America Hospitality & Leisure Segment Lead | Real Estate, Hospitality, Construction (RHC) Market Segment at Ernst & Young LLP

Speaker

Umar Riaz is EY Americas Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Consulting Leader, managing EY Consulting Services across the sector. Focusing on the industry’s most pressing challenges and opportunities, Umar advises companies on digital transformation, including customer experience design, analytics, enterprise digitalization and innovation management. He also consults with businesses on sales and marketing transformation, back-office organization, managed services and corporate strategy. Umar has more than 20 years of consulting experience across a wide range of industries and functions and served clients in Europe and Asia-Pacific, in addition to the US. Umar graduated with a Master in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He was also a Research Fellow at Harvard University.