Mubarik Imam

Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Lecturer & Advisory Council

Mubarik currently advises start-ups, non-profits and academic institutions. Mubarik was an early employee at WhatsApp. When Mubarik joined WhatsApp (pre-acquisition), she led the International Growth and Partnerships team. At the time, WhatsApp had less than 200 million people using the service. Over the next six years, Mubarik and her team helped WhatsApp grow to a product of over 1.8 billion people. She was closely involved in FB's acquisition of WhatsApp and led the integration efforts across the company. Mubarik has also also spent time at the intersection of Health and Technology, leading Health Integrity efforts at Meta, Marketing at NimbleRx and serving as an Advisor to the AI Taskforce at the Gates Foundation. Mubarik also serves as a lecturer at Stanford GSB. Prior to joining WhatsApp, Mubarik worked at Dropbox, the Packages Group and earlier in her career was an Acumen Fund Fellow and an Associate at Bain and Company. She is a Stanford GSB alum (MBA) and holds degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA/ID) and MIT (BSc Electrical Engineering). She serves on the Advisory Board for the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Advisory Council for Stanford GSB, CASBS (Stanford), Center for Digital Health (Stanford), the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford), the Thriving Futures Fund, Acumen Fund Advisory Council and the Hiller Aviation Museum. Mubarik currently lives in Los Altos Hills with her husband and three children. Her interests include photography, flying and science education.