Join us for our exciting series highlighting an individual guaranteed to inspire the members of the Digital Media Association. DMA will partner with alumni, faculty and staff to bring to our members a meaningful conversation with a tech or digital media trendsetter, change-maker and active industry leader. This month's guest is Yasir Anwar, Managing Director of Ernst & Young. 

Yasir serves as a managing director in the Indirect Tax Technology Transformation group. He is an entrepreneur, results-driven and highly analytical, with more than 20 years of experience. His track record includes facilitating and building leading-class technologies, surpassing expectations through accomplishments and bringing forward thinking to the table.

He is responsible for leading the EY US Workforce Technology Solutions team, which provides digital transformation and a range of SaaS offerings to assist employers in managing their employment tax costs and streamlining their business processes.

Yasir co-founded Unemployment Solutions For You (Us4U). As an executive chief officer, he led operations and strategic directions with full responsibility for bottom-line factors, including long-term planning, product management and software development processes. Under his leadership, Us4U introduced its industry’s first enterprise-level unemployment insurance (UI) and tax management software, currently utilized by Fortune 500 companies. He successfully transformed UI business processes into leading technology solutions, including SaaS applications.