Ms. Zain Oke is a transformational strategic senior financial and operational executive with over 20 years of experience advising national and regional $20B-$40B healthcare systems, life science, real estate, hospitality, consumer services, and technology companies. Having led across multiple aspects of a company’s life cycle, from pre-IPO to mature stages, her expertise in strategy, finance, and operations have helped companies achieve their financial goals and metrics. A former audit partner with Deloitte, Ms. Oke is a qualified financial expert and is an Independent Director of Electriq Power (NYSE: ELIQ; Audit Chair, and Compensation) and an Independent Director and Audit Chair of Daily Harvest, a VC-backed late-stage startup.
Ms. Oke has experience scaling businesses, preparing companies to go public, and managing post-IPO governance, risks and controls. She has led post-merger integrations of newly acquired businesses and implementations of financial and operating systems to improve and optimize critical business functions which have yielded bottom line impacts of 10%-20%. As a strategic thought partner leveraging complexity, ambiguity and risks with strong ethics and integrity, Ms. Oke manages enterprise-wide challenges through collaborative relationships with partners to deliver integrated solutions and insights for more effective change management.
Ms. Oke is the General Manager of Automotive Services for AAA NCNU, a consumer services business with over $2B in sales and innovative expansions into B2C technology product and service offerings and the autonomous and electric vehicles market. With P&L responsibility for the California market, she directs all automotive services business operations and business development, including mergers, acquisitions and integrations. She has also led the corporate strategy and response to significant business disruptions and crisis management events, while managing all real estate and construction expansions and operations for the company. Under the impactful leadership of Ms. Oke and prior to her becoming General Manager, the real estate division expanded the footprint of the Car Care business 77% since 2020. As Chief Audit Executive and Controller, Ms. Oke addressed enterprise risk by identifying operational enhancements and establishing more effective controls, thus improving margins and enhancing efficiencies across the organization.
