Sasan Banava

Head of Localization

Uber

Sasan Banava is the head of localization at Uber, starting the in-house localization team at the San Francisco headquarters. Previously, he was a localization program manager at Google and had driven the localization of over 25 product lines in 70+ languages, including the international launch of Google+ mobile in multiple platforms. Sasan was responsible for the globalization of Google My Business and other geo products across desktop and mobile platforms. He has over ten years of project and program management experience and is certified from Stanford University in advanced project management. Sasan holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Near Eastern studies with emphasis on Persian language and he spent two years of his academic life studying computer science. He also holds a commercial pilot’s license.