Technology Entrepreneur & Sustainability Innovator; Founder & CEO at Zūm; Stanford Sloan Fellow; Former eBay & Oracle Executive
Ritu Narayan Biography
Ritu Narayan is the founder and CEO of Zūm, a technology company focused on modernizing school transportation and the energy grid to enhance sustainability. Narayan established Zūm after identifying inefficiencies in student transportation, the largest mass transit system in the United States, which relied on outdated technology. She transitioned from roles at eBay and Oracle to develop a fully integrated, technology-driven platform that streamlines fragmented workflows into a unified, real-time system.
Before founding Zūm, Narayan spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, holding positions at major technology companies including eBay, Yahoo!, Oracle, and IBM. As a Sloan Fellow and graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Narayan also holds an undergraduate degree in computer science from Delhi Institute of Technology. Her background in engineering and business strategy informs her approach to addressing infrastructure challenges in American education.
Zūm provides services to more than 4,500 schools across 17 states, collaborating with some of the largest school districts in the country. Under Narayan's leadership, Zūm has achieved an average on-time performance rate of 98 percent, a 4.9-star parent satisfaction rating across 1.7 million reviews, and an 86 percent reduction in transportation-related absences in districts such as Kansas City Public Schools. The company has secured significant strategic investments and has launched the nation's first fully electrified school bus fleet in Oakland, California, utilizing vehicle-to-grid technology to return energy to the grid at scale.
Narayan has received recognition from CNBC's Changemakers: Women Transforming Business list, Goldman Sachs' Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs, Inc.'s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneur's 100 Women of Influence, and the Power of Women Award from GSV ASU. San Francisco Business Times named her among the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. Narayan was also named a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year Bay Area Award by Ernst & Young LLP, with her leadership noted for advancing student mobility for 26 million children across the United States.
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